On my way to class I noticed something was very different with the types of people on the tram. Instead of business people, Uni students and tourists the tram was packed with construction workers; CFMEU members. Getting off the tram and walking up past the baths the distant sounds of a protest slowly rose. Shouting and cheering echoed though the city. Knowing we were filming on this day I really wanted to try to capture this kind of feeling of powerful cheers and echoes from megaphones. Our group was stretched over 3 projects during class. I scrapped the initial idea of ‘observational’ expertise with the selective focusing of sound. I was busting to film the event because of the rarity of actually having a good camera while something like this is happening. It was kind of intimidating having to record all these blokes with a massive TV quality camera. After recording a bit of the rally we left to then record the pen flipping. The environment where we film this was not a good choice at all. The shade under the tree meant that it was impossible for the non-shady parts stay correctly exposed. Framing these shots on the tripod was very important or else it would lose correct exposure balance in the background. The next expertise was in the basement and of the paper folding. It was a pretty easy shoot as we only did three different shoots so we had three angles. The camera footage was good but the sound recording on the external mic was pretty average. Shooting down there does have good light but not if you cant control it. The area we were in didn’t really allow for a lot of light manipulation which meant the shots looked quite plain.