Over the course of weeks nine and ten, I have had a lot of varying experiences with collaboration. In some circumstances, it has been helpful to have an extra set of hands and eyes to be able to recognize potential problems, and add recommendations, but at other times working with others can be difficult when you cannot see eye to eye.

When filming my own work, I often find myself so wrapped up in the need to get the content and staging right, that I can often neglect some of the technical aspects that need just as much attention. For example, when filming my own scene in week ten, my focus had been so encompassed with the need to get the right establishing shot, that I could not determine the reason why everything in the view finder was turning up blue. A fresh set of eyes, and the suggestion that it was probably the white balance that was playing with the colouring helped us to get back on track. If I had not of had the opinion of someone else who was less attached to the project, I probably would have simply found myself complaining about the colouring later in the edit suites.

In another circumstance, however, our attempts to complete a project in class on eye-line matches took a lot longer than was probably necessary, due to conflicting points of view on how the scene should be shot. As a result of this conflict, the focus was left not on the actual lessons being taught, but rather on just trying to complete the task at hand in a reasonably adequate manner.

Despite some issues, the vast majority of the collaboration I have been involved in over the last few weeks has been productive and positive. Working in groups has not only made my own exercises easier to combat, but also allowed me to learn about the topics that others are pursuing, and discovering the new technical skills they have had to learn specifically for their area of interest.