Planning stage – This stage went fairly well, I think Aki(DOP) and I, encountered a little bit of difficulty initially in trying to communicate specifics for a few shots but we pushed through this after doing some blocking by ourselves. Similar to a point brought up in class I think we fell into the trap of covering the scene quite similar to that of the first group as we were also involved to a lesser extent in their planning process. As I think I have previously reflected upon this perhaps could have been avoided if were not present for their planning stage.

Shooting – This stage went very smoothly compared to the other collaborative exercises, partly because we had already covered the planning stage and partly because everyone was quite aware of their preassigned roles. We completed shooting under our allocated time and so we were able to open up suggestions to the rest of the crew, and experiment with some unplanned shots and camera movements.

Editing – even though we had the restriction of not returning to any shots our groups edit turned out to be quite similar to the group which aimed for more coverage. I think this was because when we went to shoot more shots with our spare time we ended up creating a larger variety of shots to our initial planning. I only noticed one continuity error a reflection in the final shot. This messed up my original idea of the coverage and as we didn’t have any alternate shots to cut to because of our restriction I think it ruined the pacing of the action in my edit. I think Aki’s edit had a better pacing and flow to my own as her shot choices seemed to work better as she used a slightly alternative order of shots that masked the final continuity error.