In exercise 5 and 8, I notice that exposure matters a lot to the shooting. Overexposure can be very distracting. In exercise 8, I feel that the sunlight in the background cannot be fixed simply as there was a big amount of light all over outside the building. In this case, if the natural light is rich then makes the exposure a little bit under is better than over. This can be simply fixed when doing the after production.

In exercise 5, one of the problems was about timing. We spent too much time setting up and selecting the best location to shoot. We planed to shoot the view of the building and grassland in the background first. However, it is hard to get all the actors in the frame and cannot show the different space. The final location we chose to shoot the shots got the sun directly spotting on one of our actors. We asked him to lying on the wall and slightly switching his body towards sun. And we put our camera on the other side of his face, avoiding overexposure. Another way of cutting down the light is adjusting the costumes. I tried to let the actor who stands in the sunlight put on a black jacket rather than his grey jumper. The results turned out to be great  and only a bit of his hair was too bright but that was not distracting. The other problem was that the frame was meant to be moved a bit to the right, cutting out the background of the cutter board. Continuity needs to be improved in these shots. I found that the shadows and light work together can produce division of space. I start to think about the implication of the light. How different sources of lighting work on people, what they might suggest in terms of space, time and atmosphere.