Skills Development

I actuallty had a decent amount of expensive filming as I had to produce an opening to a thriller film for my GCSE Media course. However, I have to say that since then I have forgotten many of those skills and I am using this experience as a refresher course as I have even forgotten how to open the cartridge which holds the tape! So far I have relearnt most of the camera's features such as rewinding, playing and scene selection as well as various new shots I can incorporate into my repoirtare. I don't think I'm good at anything as I haven't had much of a chance to film and this mainly my fault as I am continuosly acting, but I do think that I am pretty solid on the camera shot rules and conventions, so when and if I film I should be solid. I need to improve my involvement with the filming if I'm ever going to find out if I am the next Steven Spielberg or not!!!