Finished! I somehow managed to complete the film and the exegesis in time whilst balancing my other subjects. I can’t believe it really if I’m honest. I put so much time into this, with a lot of thought going into how I wanted it to look, and to feel and I’m so glad with how it turned out. I’m very proud of the way I edited it, because the actual cuts for the footage was not as difficult as it was to make sure the audio was synced how I wanted it to be. I used 7 audio tracks to fit all the layers in and had to make sure I faded in and out all the clips at the appropriate times so that it appeared seamless.

I really enjoyed being able to kind of challenge how I approached making a film and not following a particular structure, and just being able to shoot what I wanted to. The film really matched everything that I set out to do at the start, and so I’m more relieved that I like what I’ve created, because I have to admit it was a thought in the back of my mind that the film could turn out completely differently to how I expected.

I explained in my exegesis that overall I think the film has given me an answer I at least partially set out to understand in my proposal, which was trying to understand why mobile cinema is considered amateur; why can’t it ever be mainstream? The answer, at least from my experience in making the film, lies in a seemingly more obvious explanation: popular cinema and mobile cinema have two entirely different frames. While Daniel Frampton alluded to the fact that the frame is a representation of the filmmaker’s world and that the audience interprets it through their own world and experiences, mobile cinema is almost the opposite. Instead, mobile cinema’s frame is a representation of the world as we know it; what the filmmaker sees, we can see too. It is also not as stable as a professional camera, and so the filmmaker and the audience really feel the same way most of the time as well. However, this is not to say that this is bad however, it’s just different, and it doesn’t fit in with the way that a professional camera is used and how we have, as audiences, become used to it. With that said, this project has showed me how much potential mobile cinema has to translate real, and authentic content into film, and I will keep my eyes peeled to learn about the movements that the mobile cinema niche continues to make.

My final film is below:

I want to thank Dan again as I had in a previous post, for all the inspiration and help he was during the duration of this semester. Without him, I’d probably not have had the motivation to experiment with these ideas, nor the courage to make a film like this. I am very proud of what I have achieved and learned, and hope to have my eyes opened like they have been in this studio in my future tertiary years of study.

This concludes the final post I make for this studio, and for my first year of University, and oh man, what a ride it’s been.