Week 5 Reflection

Today’s tutorial was dedicated to familiarising ourselves with the cameras and sound equipment and developing our competency in filming our subjects eye lines and capturing them from different angles. To do this, my group and I completed a series of shots of our main subject, including a mid, close-up and wide shot as well as some moving shots where we tried to track our subject’s eye lines while walking pass us.

This exercise was helpful in experimenting with different angles and ranges of shooting to see how we can best capture subject. As this was both mine and my groups first time in using these cameras and sound equipment, the footage we shot could have been filmed with less exposure and more consideration of background noises.

Some of the struggles that arose from this exercise was getting our subject to speak unabashedly and responding in complete sentences. At first, we simply asked our subject who she is and why she chose this studio in particular. Assuming that she would reply in full sentences, our subject instead answered our questions as though it were a Q&A, making it difficult for us to incorporate flow within our segment. This parallels with Kim’s comment that in order to obtain fluid interview responses, our questions need to be pre-planned and framed in a way that gets the subject to answer these questions as though they are telling a story.