I love emails.

I love receiving them. I love sending them. How professional! There’s nothing quite like typing a well spaced email with actual (or attempted) sentence structures and lots of words – or abbreviations. Whatever! The world of emailing is a world of possibilities. Few activities surmount reaching someone through a platform in which you greet people with your first and last name, separated by a full-stop! It is a very adult thing to do.

Having and maintaining control over two email addresses can be a little overwhelming at times, but I can’t complain. I am the one who does adult things that require adult email addresses. Uni is one of those things, and although s3541897 doesn’t have the same ring to it as eliza.mcevoy, I love all of my email addresses the same. Last week sometime I received a few emails in my uni folder that were quickly filed into the bin folder to keep my inbox looking so fresh and so clean. Immediately after doing this though, Justin exclaimed that he had been granted a double pass to the opening of the 2015 St Kilda Film Festival just by replying to the very email I had just binned. I had betrayed the thing I love so much! Quickly I scrambled to the bin and retrieved this email, hastily flattening the creases and replied.

Success! A double pass to the opening night was heading my way too.

I love emails.

The opening night arrived and Justin, Sally, my friend Alex (a budding filmmaker at VCA) and myself were there, among all of the beautiful and artsy people that go to opening nights of film festivals. I guess we’re those people now too. We were shown an array of short films ranging from horror to quirky or just plain eerie.

It was really cool to see what people can do with a (really good) camera and a vision. All of the films were shot brilliantly, and I found myself really noticing the establishing shots, framing and the transition from scene to scene as well as the character development. I started the course this year with little to know knowledge about films or even the beginnings of making a film. But 11 weeks later and I find myself able to enjoy watching films on a deeper level, noticing things I never would have before and coming away from the opening night really excited about creating more over the course.