The reason I signed up to do this studio stems from my conception that, in my third year, whilst gaining experience and/or learning different ways to approach media and explore my creative process – I’ve done work related to documentary, live tv, non-fiction film, as well as the work I’ve been able to do for Triple R until this point – I kind of got lost in this and feel a bit lacking in the extent to which I fully grasp, the smaller, more technical fundamentals of film. 

I would posit that so far I’ve missed out on fully conceiving these fundamentals, and I thought that this studio would help me reconcile this, and so far I feel like my thoughts in this respect have been vindicated as this studio is really enabling, or activating my duty to do this. The studio prompt invites us to investigate our filmmaking praxis through prompts and constraints, and I would say this is infact the aim that I am desiring from this course. That is, through prompts and constraints that will avoid me getting bogged down at this point or during the semester in the more creative more illustrative nature of film, I can spend more time in this studio focusing on improving my understanding of all the fundamentals as I make sure I consolidate my creative praxis from the ground up. In a way I think this cuts the fat, and allows one to focus more on the film theory that Jean Epstein advocated for in photogenie, as there is going to be less of a focus on the story, and more emphasis and the enhancement of moments through film, in a way as well. 

I’m really looking forward to exploring how I can consolidate my media making practice as this semester progresses. Though I should really start being more punctual to class.