Learning Whip Pans (Implementation)

 After knowing the meaning behind the whip pan and the guide to do it. I will try myself to attempt a whip pan so that I can have the skill needed when filming. Doing so I got my phone and launched the Blackmagic Camera. I'm going to do multiple attempts to see my improvement over time. 

This was attempt 1 of doing a whip pan.

                                                     This was attempt 2 of doing a whip pan

What I learned from this

First of all, doing whip pans with no tripod is very hard to stabilize the camera. Now of course I will use a tripod in the film, but it shows how important having a tripod is compared to someone holding it.

What I can Improve 

When I was holding the phone, I would whip facing down which is something that doesn't make my attempts good. I will try to align the center of the camera to not move up or down. In that way I can have the whip pan leveled like its supposed to be.

In attempt 3, I made sure it was leveled. In result I did slow down the whip, all attempts show a difference of speed of the whip. Attempt 3 was slower and attempt 1 and 2 is faster. I would like to balance in between in speed to make sure it doesn't look bad. Now I know what needs to be worked on and what I expect as of whip pans in our film.