The lingerie designer (my friend Jarrah) and I were directors for this behind the scenes shoot of a photoshoot we did some time ago. This is usually our approach for filming promo videos; we ask some friends who do video stuffs to just shoot in the background, kind of fly-on-the-wall style, to give a kind of music video, IDGAF, fun, carefree vibe. It’s really lo-fi, and unstructured – as a director on these shoots all I do is point out where to set up the shots, remind everyone to have fun, and drink champagne.
I can’t take credit for the song choice (that was the editor Louis’s brain child) but I wish I could.

Today in Writing For Film and Filming For Writing we did our first cross-disciplinary class. I was very happy to find I was in a group with my friend Alex from creative writing who I have known for a few years now – she helped me start my garden and in Sydney I met her parents and her dog. It’s really cool that we get to work together.

During the filming activity I found our group was probably too large, with everyone was eager to get involved. This was good, but sometimes it was a clear class of too many cooks in the kitchen if I may use an overused cliche.

I’m happy we didn’t have to do the editing in this class, and I’m also happy that while I initially volunteered to read the script I did not get chosen. This may make me seem loathe to get involved but I think I suggested some quality ideas and techniques for filming. I did sometimes feel like certain people in my group were overbearing but this perhaps taught me to avoid working with these people on assignments in the future.

Today was the commencement of semester 2 of my course, and it felt somewhat like a baptism by fire. After 6 plus weeks of melting my brain with cartoons and alcohol, jumping right back into working was definitely a challenge.

The 5 and 15 minute writing tasks where mental anguish as I tried to get my sluggish mind to focus, but I felt good at the end of the hours. I was also alarmed to find I’m one of two first years in the class and the others are in the years above. I hope this will prove to be a positive challenge and inspire me to a higher level of scholastic work.

Links To Five Posts:

1) http://www.mediafactory.org.au/bianca-cornale/2015/05/14/music-for-project-4/

2) http://www.mediafactory.org.au/bianca-cornale/2015/05/01/brainstorming-task-4/

3) http://www.mediafactory.org.au/bianca-cornale/2015/05/20/week-11-lecture/

4) http://www.mediafactory.org.au/bianca-cornale/2015/04/20/audio-interview/

5) http://www.mediafactory.org.au/bianca-cornale/2015/03/25/week-4/

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500 Word Reflection:

I’m generally quite pleased with how I’ve progressed in my first semester at RMIT, and most of that pride is due to the amount of skills I’ve amassed in Media 1. Amoungst conceptual topics taught through media lectures (the principals of media earlier in the semester, and also the artifacts of media these past few weeks) I’ve been honing technical abilities which I’ve coveted for years. I’m happy that I had the impetus, in the form of assignments and tasks, to guide myself through learning various editing software. I’ve always wanted to develop proficiency in Pro-Tools, Garageband, iMovie and Premier, and my confidence using these has drastically improved.

Through accessing these abilities I’ve also discovered that I’m a practical and visual learner. I like using my hands, getting stuck into things, drawing mind-maps, diagrams, using programs, etc. I had forgotten how these tools affected my learning, and found it very satisfying to rediscover. It also had a positive carry-on effect for me, as came to understand how to better utilize the more effective methods in which I work to complete tasks to the best of my ability.

What I did find challenging was the length of the classes and lectures. I have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and sitting still for long times, doing the same or similar tasks, can heighten or exacerbate anxiety. A few times I had to leave lectures or tutors early because I felt overwhelmed and panicky from trying to concentrate for extended periods of time. Though over the course of the semester I felt that the problems were not as crippling. The lectures became more diverse, with various guest lecturers.

This made staying in the same seat for two hours not feel like such a challenge. And I started feeling more comfortable, engaged and involved in tutorials, so my feelings of anxiety would not come on so fast. Also we began doing more hands on activities like using equipment and experimenting with editing and it better suited my methods for working. So in a way, what I found most challenging was not the course content but the structure.

In terms of creative practice I’ve becoming more aware of the style of content I’m interested in making. This has come about through the screenings of our class’s assignments, and being able to see comparatively how my work differs from my peers.

Overall I’ve been had a very positive experience of this program and I’ve felt that it has given me a good grounding in the tools I’ll need to progress in this degree.

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