Just kidding, it’s not actually a party, but considering the group I’m in, it may feel like it so I’m looking forward to filming. We’re actually planning for the production of a web series, or in simpler terms, we’ve finally started pre-production of a pilot episode. After the talk we had with the writers last […]
Read more "Party Planning"Because who doesn’t love a good table read? And in our case, it was 7 scripts that we had to read through. It was really good to finally see a completed script, though they may not be completely polished, but complete regardless, and to have 7, each with their own direction, was even better. And […]
Read more "Read It Out Loud"A new week calls for a new response from the Screenwriters on the dialogue videos we made in response to the characters that they had written. And what we got back was definitely not the response we were expecting because the questions that the two groups we had to split into as a Media collective […]
Read more "Give Me A Rating"To end the week, we had a class exercise where we filmed a scene as a collective and we went through the different roles in production, particularly that of a 1st Assistant Director, and the operations of a set when filming. But before we allocated ourselves to roles and pulled out any equipment, we went […]
Read more "Class Act"Slowly but surely, things are moving progressively in class. After the first prompt videos we gave to the writers, they responded with 5 characters, all of which have varying degrees of uniqueness to them but sharing an ‘intern’ or office occupation. My group and I had a really great discussion in regards to responding to […]
Read more "We’re All In This Together"Since this studio is about making a web series, then I think it’s only right that I talk about what a web series is. So here’s my spiel on what a web series is to me and other things that may or may not be related to the topic. When I hear those words, my […]
Read more "Who, What, Web"3 prompts to make 3 prompt videos equals a viewing party with commentary after the screening. We basically started the lesson with watching the 3 prompt videos – action, dialogue and location – and discussed our thoughts on each. Without going into too much detail on each video, let’s just say that we hope they […]
Read more "A, B, C, D…SLR?"A new week calls for a new beginning. And for us, that’s finally knowing what exactly it is we’re going to do from here on out and actually starting something. It’s been decided that the Screenwriters will work together on a single serial project and we should have a full script from them (hopefully) by […]
Read more "So Where Are We Going?"It’s week two and we’ve been split in two. Literally. The Media and Screenwriting students have been separated, or at least, every now and then we will be. So for our first lesson as a Media collective, we also separated into two groups to work on the same exercise. That is, adapting a script that […]
Read more "It Takes Two"First week back and we’re straight into business. Quite literally, actually. This first two classes of this studio were screenwriting workshops with Australian Film & TV Director/Screenwriter, Ana Kokkinos. This is was definitely an eye opener for me and I’m so glad that it happened so early on in the semester because what she shared […]
Read more "It’s Not Me, It’s You"