In this week’s exercise we had more time and actually got time to plan and discuss ideas before the day of the shoot. This was quite helpful. During the shoot I discovered that as a director, I was more focussed on curating and making sense of the performances and it wasn’t until production that I realised I had paid less attention to the framing captured and the sound quality than I should have. I realised I should have taken the time to check the shots and look through the camera more. Another thing I realised was that we had a lot of problems with the reflections of the crew being in the last shot. This would have been avoided if we all bobbed down below the frame.
At the end of the shoot we were told that we are doing individual edits of the scene, this was a surprise to many of us in our group, as we assumed it was going to be a group edit hence we only covered the scene to be edited in one particular way. So my biggest epiphany for this week is: no matter what, always cover each shot from alternative angles to allow options in post production.