Unfortunately, I had missed out on the Monday class which was a huge mistake because the class had worked on an exercise that was important for the upcoming assignment. However, we did receive our first set of reading which I will divulge for Week Four’s reflection.

Palomar looks at the sky: Moon in the Afternoon 

Reading the first line, I realised that this was the standard that I had to put into practice when it came to describing an observation. The author wrote everything in great detail and was highly descriptive – for example, he would describe the colours of the moon, its shape and the phases that it came in. Along with the descriptions, the author also made it sound factual, providing scientific facts about the moon. My favourite line from this reading was:

“…it never fails to show up for an appointment.”

It is as if the moon itself had human-like qualities, making the observation a little bit more relatable.

This example that Robin had provided gave me some more insight as to how we should be writing our observation. This is definitely an example that I can follow and learn from.

For Friday’s lesson, I had the opportunity to catch up on what I missed out on for Monday’s class. We got to utilise the boom pole and experiment with the audio, such as looking through the peaks in the camera. On top of that, Robin also taught us how to use the white balance settings and adjusting it – there were three main colours that were important to white balance: green, red and blue (from memory…?). In order to get the ‘perfect’ white balance, these settings had to be in harmony with one another, meaning that an image can’t look too green/red/blue. I had difficulty getting around to the manual aspect of white balance, especially with the Sony EX-3. I’ll have to put that concept more into thorough practice.

Through Google Drive, I was able to watch a few snippets of the videos they had produced for Exercise #4 and discovered that we were going to this content for Assignment 2, Part 1. Just by looking at the thumbnail, I already knew which video I was going to use and that was from (group name). As important as the audio is for this task, it is also important to consider the way it is filmed. This in particular stood out for me because of the whole look of the shot. Her green jumper with the green plant behind her appealed to how I would have liked my footage to look.

I also discussed with Robin that I was going to be using a different camera because of how inconvenient it would be to bring home a heavy tripod and a heavy camera home. However, this wouldn’t be affecting my work because I would still have control over the camera settings. The camera that I will be using is the Sony a6000, a camera that I am familiar with and a camera that would produce my desired aesthetic (I hope).