Video Camera

A "new" technology that I learned about in the past year was the video camera. It's not like I didn't already know about them before this past year, but they've recently become a big deal in my life. Well not a BIG deal but it's been an experience. It isn't even the past year; more like the past couple of months. As a performing arts kid I need to have experience in different fields of performing. I'd done plenty of live performances, but only one or two filmed performances.

A while back my performing arts teacher Mrs. Bles decided that our shop had to start working with the video production class by having them film a scene, and put it into the 10 minute play festival. The scene that I was in "volunteered", we were forced into doing it because our director was out of town at the moment, to be filmed for the festival. I won't say that it was a bad experience, but I wouldn't exactly call it a good one. The actual film turned out terrible, the editting on it wasn't good at all, and we felt kind of awkward watching it.

A little while after having this experience I got an email from my theatre group director. It turns out that PATCO speedline needed a teenage man that looked to be 17 or 18 for a commercial. I responded to his email saying that I wanted to do it, and my mom got my headshot to the powers who be. They said that they would love to have me in the commercial. I skipped school on Monday to go shoot the commercial. It was nerve-wracking, but a lot of fun at the same time. They shot my part of the commercial first. I had trouble keeping a straight face sometimes. After my section of the commercial was over they went on to everybody else's featured parts, and had me be an extra in the background. This video shooting was a lot easier to understand because they had more advanced equipment than our school's video production does.

Video cameras have made a large impact in my life because they have helped me to gain more experience in my selected career program. With my new fascination for video cameras I'm thinking about starting a vlog on youtube using a camera I have at home. Still not sure if I actually will, or if I'll just put it on the list of things I dream of doing one day. Either way video cameras are really cool, and can impact you in lots of ways.