Studio reflection: Throughout the semester, Deliberate Film has significantly broadened my knowledge on filmmaking and altered my skills to be much more proficient and organised. Despite not being able to engage in face-to-face learning this semester (which I was especially excited for in this studio), I am very surprised with how effective and beneficial this class has been towards enhancing my practical skills in filmmaking. My main goal for coming…
Reflection 1: Reflection 2: Scene Deconstruction: Colour Grade: My Way of Working:
Over the first three weeks of this semester, I have already noticed significant improvements in my editing, organisation and filmmaking skills. Learning all of the keyboard shortcuts and proper ways to organise files on Premiere Pro has definitely made the editing process much more straightforward and simple. Prior to this class, I had struggled the most with understanding how to change the aspect ratio of a sequence and had a…
Colour Grade #1 For this first clip, I aimed to create a more cinematic look. I lowered my blacks (-8.2), whites (-14.3), shadows (-38.8), and increased the highlights (36.7) and saturation (124.5) to give it a more vivid and intense colour. It is evident that skin tone appears to be more brighter and vibrant as opposed to the original clip. The next clip I edited through the RGB Curves to…
Edgar Wright’s 2004 horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, centres on protagonist Shaun (Simon Pegg), who’s dull and uneventful existence becomes disrupted by a zombie apocalypse in their London town. As a fan of Edgar Wright’s style of filmmaking, I have always been fascinated by his ability to transform such a boring and simple scene into something thrilling and cinematic. Throughout this particular scene, we follow Shaun walking from his house to…
Next stage shooting exercise Having the opportunity to shoot a script that is created by another individual, is a task that gets me really excited about filmmaking and cinematic storytelling. The next stage shooting exercise was an exciting way to approach this process and work in groups to function as an online crew. Each of us had designated roles and I initially took on the first assistant director role, and…
Animatics Exercise Fundamental to the pre-production process of filmmaking is the creative process of storyboarding. I have personally found storyboarding to be an exciting and beneficial process that helps us visualise the film before hand and ensure the flow of action is aesthetically coherent. With this, the animatic exercise was a very insightful and engaging way to look at storyboarding and visual planning in an entire new way. Combining the…
Studio Post: Prompt 1: Prompt 2: Initiative Post:
A television series I have been watching over several weeks now is the show Dexter. Something that I always look out for when beginning a new tv show is the opening title sequence. Just as I had discussed in my first reflective post about how a bad choice of music can make or break an entire movie, the same thought applies here for a TV shows title sequence. What I…
The homework task for week two focused on shot making, construction and coverage. The exercise; Make the bed, was a great way for us to explore camera coverage on a more deliberate and intentional level. The task was to create a 40 second piece of ourselves making the bed through multiple shots and without any camera movement. I have previously taken on studios that explored coverage and deconstruction, so I…
