Our task this week was to shoot another 50 second shot at 12mm in our own time. By doing this we further familarised ourselves with adjusting camera settings to obtain a aesteciallty pleasing and vissually correct shot. Mitch and I decided to hire a camera between us and do our shots together. His 50 second shots were of a digger on a construction site at RMIT. Annoyingly, everytime he started to shoot the digger would stop doing anything interesting. This is evident by his second take where the driver jumps out and has a ciggerette and a chat 5 seconds in. This is one of the challenges faced in actuality filming or documentary in cases where you can’t control the scene.

My 50 second shots were of the Victoria St intersection near Bowen St, RMIT. I choose this location as it was early in the morning and there wasn’t alot going but this intersection was quite busy. My first shot was front on with the pedestrian crossing and primarily featured people crossing the road. For my second shot I choose to shot on an angle to the intersection as to capture both the pedestrians crossing and the cars on the road. This compisition was much more aestetically pleasing. Although my shot was more or less correctly exposed I made a rookie mistake of forgetting refocus the image after moving the camera so the image was too soft.