Unfortunately due to unavoidable illness and a last minute involuntary dental appointment my ability to attend class this week was not an easy task and therefore I had to resort to secondary means of resources to consolidate my knowledge based on an email sent by Robin outlining the basis of the weeks covered content. With “filmic potential” being a key focal point for this week I took it upon myself to research academic articles written on Jstor.org and thankfully there was a robust amount of content in this particular field that I believe helped to parallel what would have been touched on in class. These articles specifically caught my interest:

• Bottomore, Stephen. “Introduction: Behind the Camera.” Film History 24.3 (2012): 255-59. Web.
• Mateer, John. “Digital Cinematography: Evolution of Craft or Revolution in Production?” Journal of Film and Video 66.2 (2014): 3-14. Web.
• Allen, Richard, and Turvey Malcolm, eds. Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson. Amsterdam UP, 2003. Web.

These 3 readings covered a more historical approach to giving content to what can make a good shot as well as the emotion and draw factor assigned to a specific shot based on positioning and how it is interpreted. Jon Arthur Little’s piece: The Power and Potential of Performative Documentary Film while not being exactly in the same field as the other readings did provide another credible source for understanding how the actors and locations inhabited within a shot can provide new meaning or a different content based on presentation, and while this subject operates somewhere in the grey area between documentary style fact and a sense of manipulated fiction it provided a thoroughly relevant source that I have applied thus far regarding the current Assignment Outcome and will continue to do so for future projects in this subject.