Watching everyone’s work within the Women Beside the Screen studio was a great experience and a testament to how passionate all the women within the studio as well as our interviewees are about film. I believe the versatility of the ways in which the profile films were made engages the audience through their storytelling, and […]
Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 4 + Reflection
Reflection The primary question the Gender Matters report (Screen Australia, 2015) is concerned with, is whether women are properly represented within the Australian film industry. Throughout the Women Beside the Screen studio, I have come to meet some great emerging filmmakers within our class as well as some incredible Australian women already working within the […]
Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 2
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Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 2 Prompt 2
Interviewing Johanna Scott allowed me some insight into the Australian editing world. Scott, who has been editing for over twenty years now, gained her experience through climbing the ladder –runner, assistant editor, junior editor, senior editor. For her, it was a slow slog though much anticipated and worth it. When asked about particular obstacles she […]
Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 2 Prompt 1
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Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 1
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Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 1 Prompt 3
Directed by Axel Grigor, Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017) offers a wonderful insight into the iconic Australian editor’s work and life. The film is jam-packed with a contagious high energy that reflects the subject’s vivacious personality. The film’s narrative structure is chronologically linear, outlining Bilcock’s whole career. The film takes on Bilcock’s advice, “Beginnings […]
Women Beside the Screen – Assignment 1 Prompt 2
I will be interviewing Johanna Scott, an editor with over 20 years of editing experience. Her work includes being part of post-production company, ARC, and editing feature length films and documentaries including: H is for Happiness (2019), and Have You Seen the Listers? (2017). My strategy for the interview is to maintain a friendly and […]
Week 11 Progress
Working with Mina’s feedback this week, we’ve been lessening the ‘noise’ and ‘busy-ness’ of the poem film and trying to achieve an ebb-and-flow throughout the piece, so as not to take away from the written poem. A couple of progress images of the editing process are included here. I hope the non-representational nature of the […]