The effect of space on coverage and action. It feels so obvious after writing it, however I think this first weeks exercise really helped me gain a deeper understanding of how the space effects coverage. To give a small example my groups task was a short description of a book quoting scene, we chose to go down into the editing suites because we would be alone. I think although none of us realized it at the time the very act of choosing this location effected and coverage our interpretation of the scene. The space ended up being quite small as there was still a lot of equipment around the suites, our end result being a shot with two compositions using little camera movement and instead utilizing unexpected character movement. To contrast this with the other group, who covered the same task except with a script, their shot had multiple compositions which they achieved by moving their actors around the frame. Looking back on this had our group wanted to achieve a similar set of compositions to the scripted group I think we would have been unable to because of the location we chose had restricted the range of motion we could provide to our characters.

Although there is a whole another host of considerations such as light, and sound of the space, I think that in the context of this task the public might have been another major consideration. Because we were not using real actors if we had been rehearsing in a crowded space that could have impacted the performances of our ‘actors’ as they may have been uncomfortable performing in front of others, thus changing the action and perhaps the coverage of the scene.