Today’s class was split into two different tasks. The first was Robin explaining to us that we were to gather a rough idea of what we may like to film over the next five weeks of our studio. The second, beginning the editing process of the footage which was shot yesterday.

At first, upon initial explanation, I was really confused about what sort of ideas we were meant to conjure up for our film focus. Robin explained well, but I was still trying to get my head around it. Luckily for me, Robin followed with some really great presentation examples of the kind of ideas we might like to explore. He used film clips to back up his topic choices which really helped to paint a picture and get ideas flowing for me. Two that stood out were example one; ‘Ellipsis’, and example two; which focused on the coverage of ‘running’. Ellipsis looked at putting shots together to appear as though there are missing sequences to question what kind of story can be created from that. It looked at deliberately leaving sections out to create this effect as well as deciding on leaving them out in the editing process to create the effect. The running piece detailed different approaches to following and covering running and how to make it interesting and/or captivating.

I have a vague plan of maybe looking into the way different performances are captured. This could be quite interesting. Looking at the processes and lead up to performance and the actual performance itself.

Our second task of the day was editing the shots captured yesterday, into a cohesive scene. I didn’t have enough time to finish mine unfortunately (and ended up leaving directly after class ended because I felt so sick).

Whilst editing Rob’s scene, I realised there was a major issue of crossing the line. His scene consisted of an investigator (Serena) and a suspect (myself) sitting at either end of a really long table. Shots of both of our faces were taken from over the shoulder of the other. However, Serena’s was captured from one side of the table, and mine from the other. This made the beginning of the scene jolty and very difficult to read. I thought about mirroring the shot but there were too many things in the background which may have looked peculiar if flipped.