In this week’s classes we continued planning the End of Semester presentation about the studio, and corrolating all our answers into a Google Doc, so that the speakers can give answers that represent the whole class and not just themselves. Having a look at other peoples answers, something statements are very common and appear again and again only worded slightly differently. Common recurring themes were the freedom of choice in the final assignment, as well as appricating the massive variety in films we watched and different ways of analysing the frame.

On thursday’s class we all had to give an update on how our major project is going, and show some footage if we had it avalible. It was interesting to see so many people’s projects change direction since the proposal presentations. Most people had some kind of footage to show, and it was very interesting seeing how peoples ideas were coming to frutition.

My “update” came in the form of reassuring the class that everything was going more-or-less to plan, and that I had completed all my filming on schedule over the long weekend. I showed two sections of footage, the first was a compolation of all my “Slo-Motion Exploding Balloons” which I filmed many, MANY times experimenting with different techniques and trying to perfectly replicate a cheesy “Head-splosion” effect.

My second segment was something, that in retro-spect was probably a waste of time but it was fun anyway, was a approx 1 minute “trailer” for my film. I wanted to make something tounge-in-cheek and make it look like my film was serious and important. It was harder than I though, and i probably spent at least 2-3 hours putting it together. I wanted to make it as “Hollywood” as possible, with dramatic phrases over the top of unrelated footage (as in stuff from another part of the film), I found some cheesy “Duh DUN” sound effects to puncuate my  cuts to classic trailer phrases such as “This October…..”. Im also pretty proud of the ending to my trailer, which has the segment preceeding the Exploding head, including pulling a gun up to someones forehead and pulling the trigger. Instead of showing the explosion, i just played as gunshot sound-effect and cut to black for 4 seconds, which was fairly “proffesional” looking, if I do say so myself.

Again, it was probably a waste of time, but It was fun.