Throughout the week 6 class on Monday both the brainstorm and activity were interesting for me to think further about my video for assignment 3, more specifically about the types of shots I should use and the duration of the shots also. Therefore in terms of the equipment, for the activity I did just use a Sony video camera to focus on creating and experimenting with close up shots using high angles. However I was not happy with the look of using a hand held camera as my footage in the activity was shaky and gave off an effect I was not going for. Therefore this activity really made me realise I do want and need a Tripod for my type of video as part of my equipment. For the activity, my shots went for roughly 10-15 seconds as planned, yet again this made me realise that for assignment 3 I will change this rule, as I thought filming the shots for as long as it takes for the ingredient to encounter for example, ‘the eggs to crack into the bowl’, would be more suited to my style of video. For the activity Jordan, Mia and I just filmed on location at RMIT therefore the location in the activity does not in anyway reflect the location for my actual video, yet I took the opportunity with this activity to focus on distinctly the close up and high angle shots of any location and again, to work with the idea of using hand held footage or using a Tripod.

The Scott Macdonald reading for week 6, ‘Eight Intersections’ was useful for me to read as it got me realising how past filmmakers, such as Rodakiewiez believe a movie or video camera shows so much more of our “daily surrounds than we normally allow ourselves to notice.” As this reading highlights how as humans we only notice the very obvious aspects of our everyday nonfiction in our everyday lives. And to challenge that thinking in assignment 3 in terms of encountering, intrigues me.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i2WUitun30w16PmnKkaCQLBM9tI0V0sx/view

Above is the link for the activity we did in class for week 6.