I was sort of unclear about the expectations of these exercises and what we were supposed to achieve as a group. We decided to begin be filming some experimental shots and locations as this may be our only opportunity to experiment and perfect. A location that involved interesting lighting was chosen and Tim, Gabe and Mia walked within these lighting panels that appeared on the ground. It was difficult to know how to position this shot, I would have liked to get a few more variations of the same action maybe, and even more angles of the same location as editing this footage became hard. Post production becomes a lot more difficult when you have fewer shots to actually cut. We decided to not focus on sound and just record footage but again I feel in hindsight that sound would have been helpful to connect these images and create a cohesive set of visuals. I’ve turned down the sound in the final edit as it didn’t add anything to the final product, and replaced it with ambient sound effects. I attempted to colour grade this footage and darken the shots to highlight the shadows rather than the people, however I’m not sure how much this actually works.

This particular shoot made me realise that you need to go in with a plan when shooting. We sort of just started filming anything and then ran with it, but for myself this proved difficult because I didn’t know how many shots we would need or even what we were trying to achieve. I did enjoy the experimentation of lighting and how different visuals were created with people walking amongst this lighting. I think the key for this shoot was to experiment as much as possible, however I would have like to have gotten more shots within the same environment in order to make editing a more interesting process.