The production of this video piece was an extremely breezy process – it was done within in an hour or so, with minimal adjustments made. When I say minimal adjustments, I mean the pre-planning of this whole video was followed accordingly, with modifications of the shot.

Leaving out certain shots were no problem for me because the ones left in the video could still capture the essence of my observation. The shots that did not make it were crossed out in the script and shot list. My reasoning for leaving these shots out was due to to it being repetitive, unnecessary and more importantly, it would have been an obstructive process. The cafe is quite small in size and if I were to do a tracking shot of the talent walking in, the cafe owner would not have been pleased. Prior to the shooting, I asked the cafe owner if we were allowed to film inside. He was reluctant to let us do that because he did not know the nature of the shoot but once he saw us shoot inside (which was low-impact), he was relieved. He initially thought that we were going to take over the whole cafe but in reality, I was just shooting from the table we were allocated to, and used my mini tripod to film. Filming outside had also little challenges, despite the rain. If anything, it was easier to film inside rather than a closed location such as the cafe.

These were some of my favourite shots taken during the filming and editing process – it captures the whole mood of exclusivity as well as the coziness of the cafe. The fact that the weather was gloomy adds to that effect. My expectations of filming my observations did stray away from the actual video – of course, it would be difficult to replicate the exact same moment that I had experienced from my observation but I would have to say that it was pretty close.

I enjoyed making this “routinely” type of video – it may be hard to decipher its exact meaning without reading the observation, however, the aim for this video was to present Degraves St in the exact way it is.