This week was our filming week. We had completed our goals mentioned last week which gave us a sounder understanding and confidence for the week. Our plans for filming on Tuesday didn’t end up working because the studio that April has in Ballarat wasn’t available, so we had to push filming till Thursday. This ended up being a good thing because we got to meet April, have a look at her RMIT studio and it warms herself up to being on camera and therefore more comfortable when we do the interview portion. 

Even though we were working in a team, each of us had turns in filming b-roll footage which gave us more footage to work with. This was especially helpful because even though we’re all working on the same project, each team member has a vision for how they would want their video to be shot and what we each wanted to see in post-production. The shots that we got were both static and moving shots, using different camera angles demonstrating a more dynamic video scape. What also worked well was constant communication and bouncing ideas off of each other.

In regards to next week, our goal is to travel down to Ballarat to film the interview portion and have a feel of how transformative April’s move from Ballarat was for her. This will give us a better understanding of how to tell her story in the most authentic way, as this will be our focus for our docu-series video.