I spoke to Robin after class yesterday, and he made me realise that it isn’t rude to try and teach people how to use equipment. We spent the class orchestrating a drama-like set up of a conversation between two people at a table. With only a director, camera operation, a boom swinger and a sound recordist, most of the class were left to watch. Having done two studios previously that focused quite a lot on the use of equipment, it is both tedious and difficult to watch the process of learning from the beginning. As I watched the set up and production of the scene, I reluctantly offered a few pieces of advice to the sound recordist and the boom swinger but I just felt rude doing so, and I don’t really know why. Robin can’t really go around and teach everyone how to do everything so I guess it is ok for the students to help each other out. So I think that’s something I want to do a bit more of in the coming weeks, because sound (and camera) is something that not many people in our class have really worked with before, and I have both recorded and mixed sound on multiple productions so I guess I should help out a bit u kno.