fern's

All about prompt, brief & aims

Media and filmmaking has always been one of my favourite things in this world besides graphic design and music. As I’ve been studying for almost a year already, I have learnt that filmmaking isn’t only shooting great shots and telling interesting stories to other people. Filmmaking also involves writing scripts, cinematography, making it engaging, editing videos, acting etc. It’s always been interesting for me to know media can be really effective, for instance, Leonardo DiCaprio talked about climate change in his speech after (finally) winning the best actor oscars award. This showed me that media gives people opportunities to send messages to the world of what’s going on and people actually took it seriously.

I hope this course will enhance my skills such as writing, brainstorming and shooting and editing videos. I want to learn more about what’s behind the screen and how they make such great and fascinating movies and documentaries. Unfortunately, I do not have much experience in this kind of industry, however, I am always interested in media, so I hope this course will improve my skills and lead me to a clearer view of what media actually is. Furthermore, I hope I will not only appreciate the process but also enjoy and cherish the process. It is apparent that media is one of the greatest ways to deliver messages, therefore, I hope I’ll be able to use the best out of it.

Also, hopefully, this course will bring me creative thoughts, ideas, and concept to tell good stories. It can be challenging, however, I believe that this course will lead me to know and understand better about this industry.

 

First class as a media practitioner

First class of the semester, we got the chance to practice using the camera in groups. Paul showed us several basic things we have to know when using the camera such as, the right way to carry the camera, how to use focal length, why ‘zebra’ has to be used when recording etc. I have learnt some basic things from this class, which enhanced me to understand a bit better about how film making is quite hard and complicated when it comes to things like using as camera. As I always have been interested in film making, this class brought me to my interest in cinematography. It is challenging to make the film come out not only beautiful but also giving some kind of an emotion to audience basically by movements, angles, and lightings.

After testing the camera, we had the chance to explore around the university to do some shots from human actions. Firstly, we shotted at the stairs in the building for 10 seconds each shot, then we went outside to shot actions. We found the perfect spot between two buildings, it had a little bit of lighting to make the whole video better, people walking pass the camera and everything was just on spot. Afterwards, we recorded people crossing the streets through the bars at the fence which was also a great shot.

Overall, I was glad how the shots turned out the way they did because we did not only just film something but we actually thought it through about how the camera works and how we try to use things around us to make the videos better such as lightings and angles.