In class today we started off by getting into our groups and roughly brainstorming ideas for our project. Elle, Andrew and I started off by thinking off all of the different directions we could go in from the initial concept… Continue Reading
In this weeks lecture we focused on the idea of narrative and the idea that ‘Everything is a story/Story is everything’. Causality is the relation between one event and another (or the cause and effect) and is made up through… Continue Reading
After viewing everyone’s projects in the tutorial on Thursday we were put into groups and given the next assignment: Project Brief Four. I was put into a group with Elle and we were given the topic ‘Institutions’. At first I… Continue Reading
I really enjoyed watching everyone’s films for Project Brief Three in the tutorial this week, but as always it was a little nerve racking having everyone watch my own work. I always find that I’m happy with my work when… Continue Reading
For this Project Brief I decided to have my good friend, Avatar as the subject. He calls himself a ‘futurologist’ and is one of the most interesting people I know, so I thought I would be able to create something… Continue Reading
I watched a movie the other night called ‘Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion’. It’s a Japanese movie made in 1972 and was incredibly violent and somewhat ridiculously over the top at times. The whole time I was watching it I was… Continue Reading
This week we focused on sound and the idea of hearing/listening. The thing I struggled with the most in the last project brief was the quality of sound, so it was good to learn about it in more in-depth terms.… Continue Reading
The focus for this weeks lecture was collaboration. For me personally, working in groups has always been a very positive or a very negative experience. I think my main problem in group work is that I’m a self-confessed control freak,… Continue Reading
Cinema Studies Essay: An Exerpt The use of props in Playtime significantly contributes to the construction of the inhumane setting established by Tati, with the introduction of chairs in this shot illustrating Hulot’s confusion and difficulty in accepting and understanding… Continue Reading