A new day, a new task. Instead of focusing on both audio and visual storytelling, we began the lesson by focusing on visual storytelling. We had to create a story through a series of photos, using between 5-9 images. My group and I ventured out of the university and centred our story on a crime […]
Read more "Once Upon A Time"It’s week four and we were back to the short French film, I’ll Catch The Next One. We also looked back on all the knowledge we have gained so far in regards to screenwriting and the techniques, structure, etc. that make a good screenplay. And for today’s lesson, we had a chance to apply that […]
Read more "What Do You See?"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"Our first class for the week took a slightly different turn than usual as most of the class was dedicated to listening to other people’s observations. It was quite interesting hearing about the observations that other people have made and being questioned whether it has ‘filming potential’. This made me curious as to how can […]
Read more "I Have A Question"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"If there was anything that stood out to me in this week’s lecture on sound, it would have to be the concept of ‘hearing vs listening’. Hearing is involuntary, we can’t decide what sounds we hear (with the exception of wearing earphones and listening to music), because even if you’re driving on an empty road […]
Read more "But Listen To Me Though"In our readings for the week, we were asked to read ‘Perspective’ from Speech, Music and Sound and ‘Sound’ from Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production. In ‘Perspective’, the extract discusses perspective, social distance and immersion in relation to sound. In brief terms, perspective is the process of placing elements in order. And […]
Read more "Listen Up"In this week’s workshop, we began with something that majority of our class, myself included, were anticipating wouldn’t happen but it actually did, and that was a mini film-fest of everyone’d second project brief. Thankfully, mine was one of the videos shown in the middle, and there’s a saying out there that people always remember […]
Read more "Watch And Listen"This week’s lectorial was one that definitely had to be listened to. And that’s because the topic being discussed is sound, an element that I think is somewhat underrated sometimes in film and television. The lecture touched base with ideas highlighted in our reading for the week, discussing topics from ‘what is sound?’ to different […]
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