My individual exercise consists of a large chess set on the ground. The chess pieces were my main target for the shot but I still capture the action around them as well. Whether it was people walking by behind or people actually playing the game and moving the pieces. I think that it was and interesting and different way of showing the lives of people in Melbourne without literally pointing a camera at Swanston St. I also believe that focusing on the chess pieces also has narrative value. It shows what the pieces see and almost how they live their own lives amidst the busy city. My favourite parts of both clips that I filmed are when people enter and leave the frame. I see it almost as their whole relationship with the pieces and my film. When they enter the frame with the pieces being the beginning and when then leave, to be the end. This exercise generated many new ideas for how I can use non-moving objects to tell stories just as well, if not better, than having a living subject. Although I am quite happy with the exercise I did there are still things that I would personally do differently next time. I would have liked to instead get a low-angle shot that still contains the pieces and the world around them. Making it looks like the POV of the chess pieces and building into the narrative of the observation more than the shot looking down at them. I would have also if allowed encourage people in the background to move around or engage with the pieces more. This is because I think that the footage can seem dull when still since the pieces themselves are not moving at all. I thought it was interesting how I was unable to stick to the 50 seconds not only because I lost track of time but because of how much was happening within the frame. Overall the exercise ultimately showed me new ways to capture observations around me and that not everything has to be filmed so literally.