I found this activity to be maybe the most enlightening experience so far with the studio. For starters, I was actually able to be there for the filming part of it and I definitely think I worked well with my group. I mistakenly volunteered to be interviewed so I was quite nervous opening up in front of a camera but it was somewhat of an eye-opening experience. I feel like opening up on, frankly, embarrassing stories on camera has lowered the threshold for on-camera embarrassment so I am greatful for that experience. As for the rest of the shooting, it was interesting seeing the other group member that got interviewed approach it in the complete opposite way from me, not saying either way is correct but she had a lot more of a charismatic approach that my anxious self could never do. We managed to get through the interview section with relative ease and so we were given lots of time to shoot B-roll which was also an engaging element of the exercise as we were making conscious decisions on what to film that will benefit our and other interviewer’s stories. I learnt that basically even at a filming stage, you should be considering editing and what can make it easier and harder and work around that. As for editing the actual documentary, with the subject matter in mind I’ve come to feel as an editor you have some sort of subconscious responsibility to treat the footage and the subject with a certain level of respect and portray them in the best light possible which is what I attempted to do and a large part of the process in choosing a particular section of the interview to focus on. Finally, watching them in class was another learning experience, seeing people edit with B-roll you’ve shot, seeing people edit your story, seeing multiple people editing the same story in different ways all indicate the power of editing and how much control you have over the emotion of a piece.