We’ve gone back Tuesday night for our second shoot. I just looked at the footage today and it’s okay but Sammy and Louise agreed we were all a bit flustered when shooting on location for the first time. It was FREEZING and super windy. I played music off my phone to scare away the ghosts.

I had this thing about not knowing how to frame a shot in class. I do know how to frame a shot. I am good with a camera, I’ve done camera training for two years at La Trobe. I feel like I let so much of that training slip from my mind when I came to RMIT. I wanted to start on a fresh slate, but the short films I made at La Trobe had some dope camera moves and I was 8/10 times the Camera op or sound op. I know what I’m doing I’m just a bit intimidated because my group has such strong photographers. But when it comes to shooting on the night I don’t think we will be using singular roles. Everyone is super capable of doing each role in the team and I think working interchangeably will be great. Everyone can look through the monitor and call the shots as I dont think any of the girls are sensitive to criticism and are flexible with roles .

The footage we got Tuesday is much more calm and controlled. Shots are running for long enough, everything is much more detailed and I think we’ve applied the “camera on world off” mentality. I guess it was seeing the place at night for the first time Monday that was distracting because it’s a new space for all of us. I am so keen for this shoot, and also the tennis club one will be wonderful to move to a similar but new location. The court we are thinking of using for Bell’s script is clay and it’s nearly like the bowls green but in an alternate universe.