For my studio this semester we are required to do 1 blog post per week on a seperate blog, but we are encouarged to cross-post here so I will.

Here is the first blog.

Week 1

This weeks first class didn’t do too much that was worthy of a blog post, so I’ll have to stretch to reach the required 250 words.

Tuesdays tutorial involved standard introductions and overviews of the course, but also some interesting discussion on films and the notion of “frame”. Everyone in the class was asked to name their favourite film as well as a so called “guilty pleasure”.

The answers given were extremely diverse, with favourite films ranging across all genres and spanning many decades. It was noted by several students (my self included) that it was impossible to pick one film above all others, but we had many films that could all equally qualify as our “favourite” depending on what type of mood we were in.

I found some peoples answers interesting, there was the usual spread of genres that’s to be expected, but what surprised me was the appreance of very recent films, 2014 in some cases. I don’t mean to say modern film is somehow inferior, but for me to put a film/TV show/video game/song into my “top tier list” I must wait for quite a while. This is because I need to give it enough time to be comparable to others in my memory, which means re-watching others and then the new contender to “mix it in” to my psychological list of movies. I find the notion that a brand new film could instantly overtake ones you’ve held in high esteem for years an unsettling thought.

The class word association with “FRAME” was also very interesting, coming into this studio I wasn’t really sure what the term would mean in the scope of a semester’s study. The array of terms we came up with was almost everything to do with film study. I’m still not entirely sure what we’re going to learn about, but I’m excited to find out, especially Project Brief 4 and the prospect of making a 5 minute short film.

Reaching 250 words was not an issue at all, and I hope this style of writing is correct for the blog. While im at it, I commend whoevers decision it was to make a forced submission every week, it means that there wont be a repeat of last semesters industrial grade procrastination that led to me frantically finishing the required amount of Blog posts in the minutes before submission time.