feedback on being a videographer

I think it would be really useful to know the activities and the goals, and the instructional strategies ahead of time. While this might bias the way I look at things, I think I already come in with a bias, I have my own ideas of where I might go with certain prompts or how i might address certain things - so knowing what the instructional team has in mind would help me focus. For me, the instructional meeting at the end of the day isn't really doing that.

I also think that having more focused time to talk with the other videographers about what we find interesting and why would be good. I liked the idea of this afternoon's looking at video together (sorry I slept through half of it!!) but I have not been looking at things on that level - and as a part time visitor I don't think that level of detail is where I'd want to focus. Maybe not.. I'm not sure about that. But I would have rather watched a 5 min clip silently, thought about it, discussed, then honed in on details. Maybe that's just because i'm a think before talker...???

Or maybe I'd just want to be given something specific to think about that would be useful - because maybe I'm thinking about things that have already been exhausted in conversations, or are not of interest to the general SPU group. Or maybe you want an outside perspective? I'm thinking a lot about modeling, community building, and buy-in because these are issues relevant to me in my teaching - but maybe that's not where everyone else is? Perhaps it's this worry about miss-match that's causing me to want the above two things...???

Anyway - 2 cents from me. I hope I've made a contribution. I'm still not sure if I have...