Observe Observe.

So we had the observational exercise today and somewhat I was nervous about it. One of the reasons why is that we had no focus whatsoever about our topic. As things were set up, all that was just running through my head was ‘we could do that? No that! This! ‘.

First we entered the RMIT gym thinking we could get the ‘hardships’ of people working out but ended in no good due to permissions and privacy.

We walked to the area in front of the state library and decided to shoot some traffic lights. What I found interesting was the reactions from people walking past cringing when they see a camera pointed at them. It was like a colony of ants running from gushing waters. Played a fool with handheld because I wanted to experiment my shots with handheld. Found that the pd-170 is rather light not really suitable for handhelds as compared to the Z7. Ezra was the boom, Sheau sound, Goi and me camera. It was interesting to experience working with Goi in the camera department because I think that we both have very different views when filming. Nevertheless I still had mixed feelings about the footages shot because somehow I felt that there was just not enough. I think that observational styles are one of my favourites but also my worst headaches.

Music is my wife

We were given short tutorial exercises to shoot a short interview about one of our group members. Somehow deep down I knew that I was the victim. Cut the chase, here's our video. Personally I think its more like a promo video of myself. Wouldn't you agree?

Brainstorm

So my group members were Goi and Ezra, and we met up to discuss about our treatment. Being a person who's not good with new ideas, I began to observe of how my group mates started to talk about the topics they would want to do. While they were talking about the topics, I was thinking more of its visual capabilities. We ended up with Goi's idea about dancing. Somehow I had a certain feeling of comfort because it was a topic that I was very familiar with. Back when I was working, drama was everywhere, from getting into trouble with the makeup artists, to the judges not liking one of the contestants for their personal reasons. Like in the week's lecture, theres definitely drama in dancing. It struck me then, am I taking this topic on a reality tv point of view? It got me questioning of the similarities between documentaries and reality tv shows. Can we call a reality tv show about dancing a documentary?