This week I realised the value of shooting the wide shot first for the benefit of the actors, continuity of the action and  continuity of lighting. I was aware that, logistically it was beneficial to capture the wide shot before other shots as a fallback for editing stage however I think I underestimated the value it adds when establishing the continuity for the crew as a whole as well as giving the actors a opportunity to get comfortable with scene.

One issue I think I should explore more is with what we talked about in class regarding the lighting continuity is how to keep the lighting continuos once you change setup, i.e if the lights you were using previously are now in shot. I realise this is an incredibly situation question but i feel like there would still be some general advice to work around this problem.

Roles were very important this week I feel that maybe if we had a set rotation of roles rather than letting ourselves choose we could be more time efficient in the decision making  and shooting process. It gave me a sense of how important it would bet on set to know your set role and tasks.

I feel like the exercises this week were less interesting, not because of their setup but because of our results. I think the first weeks exercise got a really interesting range of compositions and interpretations but this week’s first exercise seemed to produced similar results. The in camera edit exercise was meant to encourage some new coverage by making the ‘common’ shot reverse shot less logistically appealing. I think it was a lack of roles and time management actually meant the opposite occurred as I think we fell back to relying on a more ‘common’ coverage of shot reverse shot as because although it was more time consuming  to physically setup, it was easier to achieve as a group because we didn’t have to put as much time into a creative discussion in thinking up new ways to cover the scene.