It seems crazy to me that it’s already been a year since escaping the hell that was high-school and VCE. This time last year I was frantically getting myself ready to sit 6 VCE exams, unsure of whether I’d do well enough to get my 1st preference… and now here I am, a student at RMIT, writing a blog post. 2014…
Category: Film3 Reflection
Safe & Sound: Audio Reflection
Above is a short video which I edited together using a variety of audio samples that I recorded earlier this semester. Collecting the audio recordings was an interesting process and while I’d used a Zoom h4n before, I feel that I still learned a lot about the recording and mixing of high-quality audio. First and foremost, I realised just how…
Night Shoot 2: Car Mounted Camera 2.0
The first time I mounted my GoPro to a car yielded some interesting footage, however as noted in an earlier post, my makeshift mounting solution wasn’t flexible enough to capture the kinds of shots that I wanted. With this in mind, I decided to purchase a suction-cup mount. I’m really glad I made this purchase because having this piece of gear…
Colour Grading Tests
Here’s an assortment of different colour grade tests I came up with while experimenting around with Premiere’s ‘3-Way Colour Corrector’ and ‘Lumetri Colour’ (a new addition) effects. I quite like how some of these turned out and while I went pretty extreme with some of the grades, it was a fun and interesting way to see how far I could…
New Concepts
I’ve found shooting at night to be quite a relaxing and educational experience. I’ve learned a lot about the capabilities of my camera and the ways in which I can use it to capture visually interesting compositions. Shooting with no concrete plan has also been an interesting way to develop new ideas – by shooting and editing the footage I’ve…
Night Shoot: Capturing Video
I’d recommend watching this on Vimeo seeing as they don’t allow HD embedding on their basic plan. But whatever, maybe you’re really into pixellated video. So here’s some of the footage I captured during my first (more official) shoot for my research project. The edit is somewhat irrelevant and I mainly just wanted to upload my favourite shots – the…
Collaboration [Part 1]
The filmmaking process is generally a collaborative one, whether you have a huge crew or a small group – there will almost always be numerous contributors to any film project. This was one of the reasons I was excited to take the Film3 Studio, as it seemed to offer many opportunities to work cooperatively with others on different tests and projects.…
Plans for the rest of Film3
I found this week’s consult session to be really helpful in establishing what I want to create and explore over the final 3 weeks of this semester (and the Film3 Studio). I’ve begun to further develop and understand how I can conduct my night-time experiments and the ways in which I could potentially put together the footage and moments that…
Scene Deconstruction [‘Drive’ – Opening Getaway Sequence]
The Sequence: Part 1 & Part 2 Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ delivers some great cinematography; with an interesting colour palette and a defined lighting style contributing to the film’s ‘neo-noir-esque’ visuals and themes. While the whole film is shot/edited marvellously, I think that this opening sequence is near perfect in construction. There’s obviously a lot going on throughout this 7…
Film 3: Part 10 [18 September]
Today’s class saw us again working on our practical production skills – this time we looked into how to light a scene and how to set up a shot. We unpacked a lot of equipment and took it in turns to set up different lights, c-stands, etc. This was a really en-lighting (hahaaaaa) session and it was good to finally…