First of all, it's important to know that I ACCEPTED all his constructive feedback, and criticism. I'll try to go into as detail as possible in 2 parts, and would really love to have some advice, because if not, I'm thinking I'm not capable at all as a photographer / videographer.
PART 1 - The Job
So I was asked by this pastor of a church, he is also a friend of mine, his around 50+ and I'm just a young man, his more like an uncle to me, he called me one day to ask if I'm able to do video recording and video editing for the church. As COVID-19 emerges, churches are all closed, and so they decided to make an online video for the sermon so the church members can still view it online. So my job is simple, to record the video when the pastor is talking ( or preaching the sermon ). And after that, I have to do some post editing for the video to make it into a complete one.
PART 2 - The situation
Now, I've done this job for him for 4 session, which is a total of 4 videos, today is the 5th one, and is also the day he complained. So first of all, after the video recording session ended, he told me that I wasn't moving my tripod more than he expected, I wasn't zooming in and out and so on. So I got to thinking, if the speaker is talking, which he is the main focus of the entire video, and he is barely moving, the ONLY thing that I could do in my situation is to zoom in ( WHICH I DID ) and zoom back out, I cannot move the tripod physically because if I do that during recording, it would look very unprofessional with jerky movements and so on, and it's not like I'm filming action sports video where I handheld the tripod and move around catching all the actions, but this is different, this is just recording the speaker talking, giving the sermon, so in that sense, I should be staying still, and not moving the camera too much, does anyone agree with me ? And after that, he said that I'll really struggle in this industry because I'm not being creative, I'm not moving panning the camera left or right, now, if the speaker is constantly or occasionally moving from one side to another, then I can pan the camera to follow him, but if he is staying still in one spot, obviously my camera would be in the same spot focusing on him, am I right or wrong ? So basically that's what happeneed, and all I did was nod and said yes yes, because I don't want to argue with him.
Now, my main question is, was my style of doing and recording the video wrong ? Because I thought for this kind of job specific, this should be the way to record it, or is he right ? Would love to hear some opinions and advice.
Was I at fault ?, Being criticized for my videography