The second studio class of the week has helped immensely in calming my fear over knowing next to nothing about proper film cameras/techniques since it was a very practical session on how to manipulate focal lengths to create different effects… Continue Reading →
Anyone know where I can find that book? We were straight into it this semester, learning the ins and outs of the EX3 in our first Film 3 class. Finding the switches was easy enough, understanding what they did was… Continue Reading →
The Princess Bride is one of my all time favourite stories. Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles… whats not to love? It was also the introduction to week eights lectorial as we talked about narrative. It… Continue Reading →
Have you ever listened to silence? No matter what you think, the answer is no. Silence does not exist, only different kinds of quiet. If you’ve ever listened to a ‘silent’ night, really focussed in, its actually extremely noisy. As… Continue Reading →
Out of interest I have been looking into the role and necessary skills of a stunt performer and have come to realise just how connected each part of a cinematic team is. Each person involved in creating a tv show… Continue Reading →
Week six lectorials focus was on the skill of collaboration. As a media practitioner there is no role that exists in isolation. Making films, websites, advertisements, print media, all require teamwork and group input. Trying to do things by yourself… Continue Reading →
This weeks lectorial on the progression of technology and whether humans are driving it or being driven by it brings to mind a debate I’ve had many many times with my boyfriend, a computer software student, on the subject of… Continue Reading →
Did you know every face we see in our dreams is one we’ve seen before? Our brains are incapable of creating a new face while were dreaming so it uses the faces of our friends, people we’ve seen on tv,… Continue Reading →
I’d heard from classmates how difficult ‘institutions’ were to define so I was really hoping this lecture would clear things up for me. In some ways it did, in others… not so much. Once Brian went through some examples and… Continue Reading →
This weeks workshop was the last day of the ‘conceptual’ stage of our project on Media Audiences. We’ve made mind maps, we’ve brainstormed, we’ve come up with our concept and we have a rough draft which we presented to the… Continue Reading →
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