They’re Good Together

“screenplays should be experienced […] as a form of cinema itself” whereby “both, although via opposite polarities, are audio-visual (the screenplay cueing the images and sounds in our mind)” (2009, p. 109). Reference: Dzialo, C 2009, ‘“Frustrated Time” narration: the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman’, in W Buckland (ed.), Puzzle films: complex storytelling in contemporary cinema, […]

Don’t Say Anything

Despite having Labour Day and making us miss our Monday class, it wouldn’t really be uni if we still didn’t get homework over the long weekend. This time, we were tasked with finding parts of films, TV shows, etc. that didn’t use dialogue to tell the story. The example that we were given was a […]

To Be Continued

Carrying on from our Monday class, we continued looking into the short French film, I’ll Catch The Next One. But this time, we were given the opportunity to discuss and create our own continuation of what happens after the woman gets off the train. And so, this post is dedicated to me simply sharing my […]

I’ll Wait For The Next One

A phrase I’m all too familiar with since I catch public transport too. Anyway… we kickstarted our second week in the Picture This! studio by screening a short French film where a woman is hoodwinked by a man’s skit on the subway. My interpretation of the protagonist, which is the woman, is that it’s pretty […]

Time To Picture This

It’s the start of a new year and we got straight into the work in the Picture This! studio. This first week has been an eye-opener on all the basic knowledge that I lack in regards to screenwriting. Doing the reading on ‘Description’ by Robert McKee and applying that knowledge to the script excerpt of […]

Media Four, It Was Lit

Literally. This studio has been a crazy ride. But what it makes so rewarding (apart from getting back into filming, making a bunch of new friends, making two episodes of a web series and a gaining a lot of new insights) is seeing the progress that’s happened over the past couple of months. It was […]

Wrap It Up

These past two weeks have been pretty hectic with all the filming we’ve been doing and today was our last day. Last week, we had also filmed on the Wednesday and Thursday with 8:30am call times for the crew and we would finish up at around 3pm so they were quite long days and it […]

Film Firsts

So today, we had our first day of filming and it was actually pretty good. We had a fairly early call time to allow us enough time to set up all the equipment before the actors arrived. But to say that we were cool, calm and collected would’ve been a great joke but probably not […]

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

With only one week left before we start production, what else could possibly go wrong? Well, fortunately enough not a lot, but there’s always that one thing. And in this case, it’s securing a location. You would think that filming at your own university would be the more practical and time efficient idea considering the […]

Office Hours

It’s pretty clear from the start where this web series is going to take place – an office. And with all the renovations that’s been happening at university, there were so many places we could check out, and we did when we went location scouting. From the places we looked into, we thought that a […]