This week we worked on the End of Semester presentation about the studio, which every studio has to give to all of us as a precursor to the work we have done and which are on view for everyone to see. We did this in the form of responding to a few prompts provided by Dan on the Google Doc. This document updated in live real time, so naturally when Dan broadcasted it on the screen for everyone in the class to view, it became very funny as people started writing some stupid and funny responses. Regardless here are the questions Dan asked, and my responses to them:
- What was the studio about?
On The Frame investigated and explored the frame, and the many distinctive aspects that attribute it to cinema. We viewed the frame in context of academic pieces of work which outline the context and philosophical theories of the developments of it, and the ways in which us as the audience, but also filmmakers have responded to the ways it overshadows cinema. The purpose of all this being that we as young filmmakers can take these on board and be able to test the limits of the frame whilst creating stimulating and original content that can be perceived with the highest aesthetic qualities.
- What did you learn?
I learned about how the geometric dimensions and boundaries of the physical frame work in tandem with the visual elements on screen to create a platform for meaning, which is interpretable by the audience through their lens of the real world. I learned from one of the class readings (by Daniel Frampton) that film, contrary to popular opinion is not a reproduction of the reality one lives in, and rather that film is a completely separate entity. It is merely one’s projection of what’s real.
- Favourite bit
Being able to think outside the box, and make anything that really interested us. The final project has really allowed us to be experimental in every sense of the word and do what it is that makes us excited about film.