Recently I’ve been reminiscing on my views of TV and film as a child and how I couldn’t fully grasp the concepts and magic of film. My mum always tells me the story of my first encounter with a VCR. I was in the middle of watching the Wiggles when we had to go out for dinner and my parents told me that they would pause it and I could watch it when I got home. This concept of pausing and resuming footage from the same point was something that I didn’t quite understand. Another thing that I didn’t understand was the shot reverse shot. I used to watch shows such as Neighbours and they would be filming conversations between 2 people. They would cut from one persons face to another and I used to wonder how they would hide the camera from the background of each shot. I thought that this was a live conversation and they were switching between camera angles like they do on live TV shows such as the morning show. I didn’t understand that each scene was filmed multiple times with different angles and then cut together to make a cohesive conversation.