For the past two weeks of this studio, I would say my favourite part of class would be the occasional screenings of our homework. I personally learn better visually therefore with viewing our homework and giving feedbacks on them has really taught me a lot about filming. Last week Paul pulled out a couple of our 30-second sequences to view in class, some edited and some just certain shots. Not going to lie I was hoping mine was not going to be shown because I felt like I could have done much better and that it was not good enough as compared to the rest.

Fortunately yes, fortunately, a shot of my sequence was projected and Paul pointed out a lot of things that I did not even notice about that shot. I did attempt to plan out that shot well, from the angles to where I was going to place myself. However, that wasn’t what was noticed in the shot, what Paul pointed out was the clothes hanging behind the shot and thought that it was a well planned out structured shot when I honestly was not bothered with the clothes hanging that much. After it being pointed out I realised the importance of that detail. That a change of colour in clothing, placement of those clothes hanging to make the shot more pleasing to the eye and how the clothing could either be a part of the background or distract the audience from seeing the actual subject.

This moment of discovery progressed as he carried on giving feedback on other students’ work and as that went on I noticed all these different angles/ideas that I would personally probably not have thought of but really turned out well and worked for the better of the shot. It caught my attention and I was excited to carry on with the class exercises/homework so I could work on those things and try new things as well as plan my shots out better.

(a screenshot from the clip i mentioned)