I felt a little obliged, when given an assessment to create an edited creative self-portrait, due at a time that coincided with the opening round of the AFL Season, to make a football related creative self portrait, after a tumultuous season that will go down in the ages undoubtedly. I instantly set about acquiring a chest mount for my GoPro, feeling as if that kind of shot, up close and personal whilst handsfree was essential for something like just having a kick around the field. I was able to get a head mount, which did all I really needed it to do, coupled with a friend of mine filming me from a distance.

The main idea that I had in mind was a shot of me, directly in front of the goals, taking a shot at goal and just completely missing the mark, which was obviously for intended comedic effect, and I feel like that was potentially the most successful part of the self portrait.

Also, in terms of the audio, an earlier cut of this I used a song which I recorded once, just instrumental that worked pretty well, but the ‘song’ didn’t actually go for longer than 40 seconds, and I had a thought bubble to use my friend Dainis’ track “Ten Thousand Hours” as it’s a pretty cheesy song about how you need to work hard to get where you want to be, and was in a similar vein to what I wanted from my track, but was also much better.

For the title of the piece, it could have been anything but I thought it would be decent to fit in with the shot of the Mark Mercuri cover with the headline “Mark of the Century”, even though there was no marking involved.
Something that was slightly unsuccessful was that some of the footage was lost, leading there to be less to edit, but I guess that is a silver lining in itself in giving me more to think about through less to work with. Also the lighting in the GoPro and the camera seem to be quite variant sometimes.

I guess that was something we were dealing with in the workshop, and to be honest I don’t really know, just discussing what blogs are and someone was reading aloud some words they had written previously and they were embarassed which is interesting because they are words that they had written, like would JK Rowling be embarrassed when she reads the chess scene in Philosopher’s Stone? I wouldn’t think so, but perhaps because we aren’t writing stories, but more personal things, and to attach these more personal words to you so directly (by reading it aloud) might feel weird. Though, I wouldn’t know I haven’t done it yet

EDIT: Just found this video and it kinda looks like she does feel a little uncomfortable, but maybe that’s the setting

This year’s been creeping up so quickly, already up to the point in the year where you can walk into a venue in the CBD and see a decent funny person make you laugh sporadically for about an hour, and I can definitely get around that

My picks for the festival are probably

Aaron Chen – An extremely funny up and coming comedian called Aaron who’s about to do his first solo comedy festival show, having been a part of a wacky but great show called Zanzoop last year (won the Audience Choice Award), very excited to see him

Aaron Gocs – An extremely funny up and coming comedian called Aaron. This isn’t a stitch up, but it will probably involve stitch-up discussion. Quite possibly the general Australian internet publics most celebrated internet comedian of last year, and seeing him a few times last year has me extremely convinced that something very good will come from this full hour.

Isabel Angus presents BLISS! – This is a great show, Isabel gets into characters for her shows and the entire hour is an exploration of that kind of character, the first one I saw “EDGE!” was about a young child star called Stella trying to make it into the industry with her mum in her ear on the bluetooth, and BLISS! which I saw at Fringe last year tackles “thinspo”, pretty interesting material there.

In terms of the deep dive into the creative process, it had me thinking how all these comedians spend their time, whether it’s like Jordan slaving away in a room to think about material, I think deep for comedy would be just constantly trying to get inspiration for material, which might be outside or something

I convinced my food-eating friend to check out this falafel place with me some time last week, which we did do, on the way realising the new Charli XCX mixtape is actually pretty massive. But once we got there, even though the hummus plate was slightly disappointing due to the misleading amount of falafels given, and the weird runnyness of the hummus because of the way it was prepared, I made a really massive find, and it was kind of a blast from the past.

By that I mean, I saw a Video Busters. That’s right, a video store, in 2017. A shop with DVD’s localised entirely within this shop, that you can rent, on Tuesday’s for a dollar each. I felt thoroughly obliged to rent a DVD, but in this Netflix world I had to opt for something I thought I wouldn’t be able to acquire easily on some other form of technology. So naturally, I went to the Australian section. Coming across Joffa: The Movie, I got a thought bubble to watch some sort of Footy movie, and walked away with Australian Rules, a movie a thought was directed by Khoa Do, but I was wrong (footy legends was the one I was thinking of). Was intrigued by the way a particular scene was edited to convey, without the use of evident violence, but still telling a violent act, through like subject-to-subject.

I found the reading as a bit of a cohesive way to really make more sense of editing, contextualising something i tend to really do with mostly intuition and hardly any knowledge. Especially editing in such a way that fits in with the way our brains worth to fill in the blanks, and perceiving the whole in CLOSURE.

In this case, contextualisating this different ways editing can work help to better make sense of what i going on. Aspect-to-aspect seem to be crucial in Japanese manga for it’s ability to foster a vivid imagination of what is going on and perhaps also as a way of storyboarding an inevitable anime episode. They help to form a scene in ones mind rather than allowing one play out.