It was really nice seeing everyone’s presentations today and seeing the mutual love we all have for this studio.

It was also interesting to see how there were many similarities in what we were investigating. Even though we came up with our ideas individually, a lot of us ended up researching the same thing and I found this reassuring. It shows that a lot of us are asking the same questions and are interested in similar things. This studio has been quite special in the way it has brought us all closer through filming the exercises and our projects and that kind of networking is invaluable. I would definitely be interested in working with my classmates more in the future and the fact that we have all been researching similar things means that we now have this collective knowledge that has made filming exercises progressively easier.

For my first project I practiced a dolly zoom and so it was really interesting to see how other people’s had worked out. It took my research of that technique a step further in seeing how other people interpreted and undertook the task. I shot mine on a DSLR camera, which led to a few difficulties but Rob, who also practiced the dolly zoom, did his on the Sony ex3. It was obvious that the technique worked a lot better on the Sony camera and the effect was far more obvious on his.

Another thing that really helped my thought process for the next project was watching other people’s take on the long shot. It was really helpful to hear Paul Ritchard’s comments on someone else’s long shot. He said that it would be interesting to look into what it would be like if it was actually cut up and this gave me some inspiration for what I am going to do. I now want to refine my long shot to also look into the ellipse, maybe using cuts at different speeds to explore how this can change the emotion of a scene.