Film 3 has taught me a lot about the practicality of being a screenwriter and filmmaker. From my original ideas to the content I’ve produced, being practical has taught me that there’s a certain way to learn creativity and it has a lot to do with being active about your ideas. In the process of creating your ideas, scripts and eventually filming, everything seemed to me to be uncontrolled and up in the air; like it wouldn’t all make sense in the end. But after having filmed and actually placing all those necessary pre-filming into practise it all came together very easily. I think this has everything to do with being active and in the flow in the right space. When you have the camera and sound ready to go any new ideas or epiphanies can come so easily and flow into the already planned script and camera use as it’s all right in front of you.

After filming and putting my ideas into practise I can see why there’s such a long process of organisation and tweaking to be made. I’m grateful that I took the time to realise my limitations in terms of locations and what’s achievable on screen and I think that resulted in being able to direct everyone in the right way on set. Being active in this way both before and after filming helped me to develop new working skills and also helped me to develop a larger creative mind. It became clear to me that creativity isn’t just about having ideas, it’s about having conceivable ideas and putting them into practise. The more proactive you are about achieving your goals, the more room you have to be open to new criticisms or ideas, from yourself or others, that you may not have realised were necessary or even there.

Finally I see Film 3 as a character building class that allows students to have an insight into what it is like to be a creative thinker and filmmaker in the real world. The class really taught me the important things about ideas, self expression and activity. The main aspect and lesson I will take from Film 3 is to never take offence to what people may not understand and take it is a chance to reconsider what it is you’re not portraying or as a chance to visually show them what you mean. It’s taught me that being proactive about an idea for film, writing, whatever it may be is always the best way to figure it out for yourself.