I’ve been pretty lucky to have formed something of a symbiotic relationship with Luke and Matt over the last few weeks while we make our way towards the end of the semester. All three of us have quite solid ideas about what we want to explore in these experiments and we’ve become quite efficient at helping one another realise this. Most Tuesdays we meet up, borrow equipment and take turns shooting an experiment of our own. It’s really good having a solid group who are always on the same page and get along well.

I think that over the whole semester one aspect of filmmaking that’s been constantly emphasised, both explicitly by Robin and simplicity by our group tasks, is the importance of collaboration. I’ve properly come to realise how absolutely imperative it is to shooting something to have a number of people co-operating on the set. Even my skeleton crew with Matt and Luke is so much better than working alone. Ideally we would be collaborating with perhaps one or two more people so there could be more flexibility in the roles, especially in scenes with more than one actor required, but no one else seems to be as keen on utilising the class time as we are.