Things that surprised me:
Filming felt endless.
I became fairly obsessive with capturing multiple angles of the same shot.
I am enjoying the editing as much or more than the initial footage capture.
The 'razor' tool in Adobe Premier Pro is legit at shaving clips and allowing for fluid reattachment.
How often a camera, in a single-camera filming, is required to move, just to capture simple shots!
Lighting is a freakin' big deal.
Background/ambient sound is often worthless.
Much of the audio heard in major films must be soo edited to sound that sharp/crisp.
Auto-focus on a camera might be the best bet at this level of film making, but I imagine that a shot's quality of focus/rendering is a big topic in higher levels of film making... especially when the objects being filmed are in motion, requiring constant adjustment of focus.
There's actually a person who's only job is the focus ring. This person sits on the camera and constantly adjusts the thing!
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