For this week’s workshop, we were asked to answer the following questions in relation to our film portrait. So read below for my responses. 1. What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait? In other words, what is the most interesting thing about your participant/interviewee that you want to communicate? Considering she is […]
Read more "Plan It Out"Or rather, how we are surviving at RMIT. Our exercise for this week’s workshop was to conduct interviews using a Sony MC50 video camera. In terms of any problems we had, I don’t think that we had any major problems during filming, other than finding a really quiet place to film. We did find a […]
Read more "How To Survive Uni"It’s audition time. And no I don’t mean, auditioning for a show or film. I’m talking about Adobe Audition. We were given a brief tutorial on the basics of using Audition in order to help us edit our audio from our audio recording exercise (and click here to read about my post on that) in […]
Read more "Show Me How"In this week’s workshop, we conducted a recording exercise in pairs using a Zoom H2N Audio Recorder. We conducted an informal interview at the basketball courts to get a feel of the environment we were in. Though you could hear other sounds in the background, such as cars driving by, people talking, basketballs bouncing and […]
Read more "Coffee Chats"In this week’s lectorial, we were dismissed early and ventured in groups to certain places around the city. My group and I were assigned to Bourke Street Mall and here we were asked to record different forms of media that we noticed. I suppose the point of this activity was to practice the art of […]
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