This week, we also came back to the montage of Elle and Carl’s relationship from the animated film, Up (2009). But this time, we were given the task of writing one part of this sequence into scene text. I decided to do the first 20 seconds were they have just been married and this is […]
Read more "Up, Up & Away"So this week, we focused our attention to a chapter from Written for the Screen (Sternberg, 1997), and discussed any revelations and confusions we had from this reading. From all the knowledge we’d been absorbing for the past few weeks, the only thing that confused me with this reading was how camera cues were acceptable […]
Read more "Do You Get It?"“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, […]
Read more "They’re Good Together"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"One scene, three shots. That was our class exercise this week. As a collective, we needed to film a scene about a girl telling a guy that she was moving to a different country using three different shots. There were some roles to fill – director, first assistant director, cinematographer, first assistant camera, camera production […]
Read more "I’ve Scene It"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"Do I remember what? Honestly, week 5 has just been a complete blur to me. Partly because of the fact that week 4 was literally split in half due to mid-semester break, which technically wasn’t really mid-semester because there’s 14 weeks this semester and we had a break in week 4 instead of week 7, […]
Read more "Do You Remember?"One of our readings for the week is ‘A Beginner’s Guide To Textual Analysis’ by Alan McKee, which is pretty much an introduction to textual analysis. First, I’d like to begin by saying that through out the entire time I was reading this text, I just kept having flashback moments of my time in my […]
Read more "Tell Me What You See"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 […]
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