Reflect upon your experience in class.  Did anything come as a revelation to you?  

This week in class we were told to film again, but this time with more freedom to move the cameras and collaborate with others. I took on the role which I am most familiar with which was the group’s camera operator. I’m very comfortable with the camera, but one thing I did learn this week was communicating with the director.

For our group, Sam was the director and he had a good idea on how to film the shots, problem was the way he intended to film the scene required a lot of movements and could cause some safety problems. I guess the reason why I had problems communicating with him was because of my low self esteem when speaking english although it was my first language. This was definitely outside my comfort zone because I decided to take up the challenge and communicate with him the issues we will run in to during set.

After we both took out our phones and started taking pictures and recorded videos as to show how we were going to shoot the scene, we finally understood what we wanted from each other. We came to an agreement that certain shots might not be suited for the scene, but some can be improved. He gave me his input which I valued and put in to consideration during filming, and he took my advice with a few shots as well. Overall, I’ve learnt that a strong communication with the team is very important while filming as it could really effect the outcome of the film.

I was very happy working with the new team as we all cooperated well even though it was rainy the day of filming, but we endured the rain and managed to pull off some in my opinion pretty good shots.