shooting begins

I have finally filmed my first video! The first step to filming was setting up my video and audio equipment. I decided to just stick to my phone camera for filming, but to use the microphone I already owned for audio. Connecting these inputs was a bit of a challenge, but I eventually figured out how to connect the mic to my laptop and then shoot my segments in photobooth, which also allows for other apple products, such as my iPhone, to act as a camera. I set my computer up right below my phone to act as a monitor, and so that I could display the words of my scripts without having to memorize my lines. I shot my segments in chunks, usually only reading a paragraph or two at a time. I read each paragraph at least three times, but usually more to make sure that there were no issues in my delivery. I decided to begin with my Plato essay, since it was the first script that I had written to completion, and it was the script with which I had sat the longest. After setup, figuring took about an hour. The plato script is one of my shortest—according to my audio recording, it should run about 7:30 minutes—but it still seems like an hour or an hour and a half is a reasonable time frame in which to film all of my videos. Now that I have filmed one video, I plan to very quickly finish filming, meaning I will move completely into editing my videos well before the end of the month!