Today we began filming after weeks of planning for our PB4 video essay. We managed to gain access and permission to film in the Swanston Academic Building cinema, which allowed us complete control over lighting and meant that we were able to set our video essay in an actual cinema as we had initially planned. Despite some hiccups and subsequent solutions (forgetting to pick up the audio equipment from the AV loans room, then hiring it elsewhere and having security tell us we couldn’t use the room without a teacher without any forewarning, before having a security guard let us in anyway because nobody had told us) everything seemed to be going well. We were going to film the essay with two hosts; Katrina and I, as Bradley had hosted the audio essay by himself. We recorded my sections with individual shots of me in the cinema, but when it came time for Kat to record her pieces we ran into a bit of an obstacle. She was struggling to read out the lines in a way that felt natural to her and didn’t feel comfortable speaking on the camera. In a rare moment for me, I had a lightbulb moment – what if I spoke both parts and we cloned me for comedic value? After months of hearing this word spoken throughout the course, I will finally write it; what happened was serendipitous. We decided to shoot me sitting in multiple seats and interacting with clones of myself, which ended up being so much more entertaining than a straight host to camera piece. After what was meant to be two hours of shooting turned into three, it’s time to edit. Now to wait for the twenty minutes of footage to take six hours to upload to Google Drive…