Day 10: 25/10/2010

Today was our first class after mid term break. Ms. Wong had told us that we should have finished filming by the end so we would have lots and lots of footage to edit when we got back, but my group didn't manage to film once throughout the whole week as most of us were away and busy. So instead during today's class, we used the footage we filmed the last time we filmed before the break and Kazia and I worked on editing the clips and deleting the parts we didn't need while Sharon and Betty worked on our filming schedule. Even though we didn't have much to work or edit because we didn't shoot much the last time, it took us the whole lesson just to get through 2 of 5 or 6 clips we've uploaded already. While we were editing it, we realized that there was one scene we'd have to re-film and that we weren't very aware to our surroundings when we were filming because the clock we used for the second shot was still there later on, and we had forgotten to change the time on that clock.

Other than working on our film during today's lesson, we also got the draft of our essays back with Ms. Wong's comments on it as well as her suggestions to what could help us get an even better grade on it. For the essay, I got a 6, out of 8, and I think that that's pretty good. But I also agree with Ms. Wong's comments about my essay; how I was more descriptive than analytical in my essay. Sometimes that can be a good thing, but in this case it isn't because this essay is about analyzation and how we interpret different scenes and such.

I think that during today's class, I was mostly a communicator. I think that this is because I spent most of the lesson talking to Kazia about all the different parts that comes with editing footage. Even though Kazia was controlling the computer, we often talked to each other about which parts of the film we were going to keep or cut and when there were more than one take of a certain shot we'd discuss which one was better with the rest of our group. And once Sharon and Betty were done organizing our filming schedule, we all worked together and talked to each other, which is what communication and being a communicator is all about. :)