Analysing and interpreting a scene

Reading through the document, it gives some very important prompts on questions to ask yourself when starting to shoot a scene. What do you shoot first? Where do you start? And how much emphasis do you want to put on certain characters and objects?

All these questions made me think very deeply about what I would do in circumstances like these and also made me reflect on things I have done in the past. During these almost 2 and a half years frequenting this media course I learned and experimented with many things and shot a few short films that gave me first-hand experience on filmmaking. When shooting the scenes of those short films I was faced with the aforementioned questions on what to do and how to do it. Not always I was satisfied with the results I came up with, but all the mistakes I made helped me become better (hopefully). I tried to imagine how I would shoot those scenes using my knowledge from past experiences and the new things I learned in this class. This led me to cover the scene in a pragmatic and maybe uninteresting way. The scene offers many different approaches due to the many things present in the scene, all with more or less importance. 

The technique of storytelling through the environment sadly is not very used in filmmaking but more so in other media such as cartoons and videogames. I would love to see films that use this technique in-depth so it would be even more interesting to watch a film a second or third time.