Aside from the facepalms I probably get when people see my threads........(chirps)
*ahem*
Times you've slapped your own head in frustration during filmmaking:
One was after the fact: I was doing a school project, and I wanted to "be the stuntman" and jump down and "disappear" behind a hill (wasn't a cliff, just a small hill). Set the camera, ran and jumped, and disappeared-success! Well, not really, I sprained my ankle and tumbled down the hill and groaned in pain for awhile- call it a hindsight facepalm.
Then there was the time at school I offered to tape a speech at a community center. It was my first "live" shoot of any kind, and got the V-300 set up (nice cameras, those), external shotgun mic and away I went. Awesome. Afterwards, we took it back to edit and found I hadn't "set" the option for external mic, but also shut off the camera mic- therefore, beautiful pantomime that would have made Marcel Marceau proud-not a stitch of sound.
Fortunately they never followed up with us on it-so we dodged a bullet-it was a experience thing, and no money was paid...but I learned that day....
*ahem*
Times you've slapped your own head in frustration during filmmaking:
One was after the fact: I was doing a school project, and I wanted to "be the stuntman" and jump down and "disappear" behind a hill (wasn't a cliff, just a small hill). Set the camera, ran and jumped, and disappeared-success! Well, not really, I sprained my ankle and tumbled down the hill and groaned in pain for awhile- call it a hindsight facepalm.
Then there was the time at school I offered to tape a speech at a community center. It was my first "live" shoot of any kind, and got the V-300 set up (nice cameras, those), external shotgun mic and away I went. Awesome. Afterwards, we took it back to edit and found I hadn't "set" the option for external mic, but also shut off the camera mic- therefore, beautiful pantomime that would have made Marcel Marceau proud-not a stitch of sound.
Fortunately they never followed up with us on it-so we dodged a bullet-it was a experience thing, and no money was paid...but I learned that day....