One Shot

This past week I was very sick and so my plans to go to the shooting range with one of my friends fell through. Thus, I got a new last minute opportunity to take my iPhone to follow Jesse Baird at work. This ended up being something that was meaningful to me because I used to clean restrooms in the HFAC, and I found it a surprisingly stress-relieving experience. I felt that the audience might feel the same thing if they followed Jesse as he did his job. I wanted to get a good variety of the space, and show how each individual thing that Jesse cleaned would contribute to the restroom as a whole.

            Needing to use my iPhone was an interesting challenge because on one hand it was good that I got a wide lens to show the full space, but on the other, I had to do a lot of walking back and forth to get the variety of shots that I needed. It also took a lot to stabilize the phone without the use of a Steadicam or gimble. However, I am pretty pleased with the results. I feel that in the space of three minutes we get a good variety of what Jesse experiences, as well as some moments where we see his reactions and focus on his job. I felt that there were indeed a few times when the camera is not focused on something. I was trying to find the balance between not having a camera that constantly moved, and yet always having something interesting to look at. This was difficult when Jesse was cleaning at a rapid pace and moving around a lot. I think in retrospect I would have used more wide shots to capture everything that he was doing, and only gone close when I saw that he stayed in the same place for a while.