Analysis Reflection #1

2. I am far more excited for this semester of work. I feel like there are less constraints, conventions and there is more opportunity to be creative. There is also opportunity to explore subject matter I really care about.

Last semester I took on a producer role because I knew I was capable of fulfilling it however this semester I would really like to become more technically capable with a camera and be able to explore the potential styles and aesthetic effects of the work my group creates.

3.  The most unusual or unexpected of the “doco’s” that we watched was ‘Drinking for England’. Obviously not a conventional doco, it reaffirmed the amount of freedom we have in creating our own work. Also how the range of shots effected the way the central character appeared I found very interesting and I think camera angles and differing shots could be utilised in our own work.

4. Initially I was struck but the content; how it shifted from ambiguous to clear using effects such as layering and texturing sound. I also really liked the use of foregrounding and background sounds.

To relate this to our work I think, unlike in Film-TV 1 where the objective was to get clean sound, I think (depending on subject matter) we could experiment with, layering sounds and creating unclear audio to see what the effect could be for this semesters film.

5. This exercise and analysis took me back to Writing Media Texts and Editing Media Texts in Semester 1 of this course. I really enjoyed looking at how audio could be used for different effects. I think it is something very innate and powerful that can have real impacts on a piece of media. We experimented with echoing stairs which was really successful and set a naturally eerie tone.