To say that this class was like any other would just be a lie. We started the class with a speed dating exercise. No, we weren’t actually speed dating, but more like speed presenting our ideas (or rather lack thereof for me). To be completely honest, at the beginning of the class (and even the […]
Read more "We Need To Talk"Nearing the mid-point of the semester, we started the week with a really interesting writing exercise. Taken from The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft, we we’re given a random word, then we had to write 15 words related to that word, pick a word from that list, then write 10 new words related […]
Read more "Are You Write?"And that we did. We started filming for our pilot episode and we did more or less better than planned. Before the day, we did sort out some things to make sure that we were as prepared as we could be. This meant having a shot list and schedule so we wouldn’t waste time on […]
Read more "Let’s Get This Party Started"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"2 Scenes in 2 hours. This week, we were given the task to film and re-make two scenes, each from two different films. The first scene we filmed was fairly easy considering it was one shot that had barely any camera movement. For the filming of this scene, I was the boom pole operator. The […]
Read more "Look Again"Shoutout to the power of music. Editing for my third project brief was both painful yet pleasing. The process was quite painful, but the outcome was quite pleasing. Honestly, I spent so much time finding royalty free music and reading licensing pages of those websites with royalty free music, that sometimes I even stayed up […]
Read more "Musical Struggles"Another one of our readings for this week is an extract from Researching your own practice: The discipline of noticing by John Mason which focused mainly on the art of noticing. In some sense, it suggests that noticing is something that just happens to us, and not something we necessarily deliberately do. It included an […]
Read more "Did You Notice That?"One of our readings this week is an extract from Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger. The extract focused particularly on drama and the three act structure. It explains the importance of the dramatic curve in any story, and how pinpointing this apex will highlight the rest of the conventions naturally prior to and after […]
Read more "Take Notes"The workshop for this week was less of a workshop and more of a consultation session. Our tutorial teacher spoke to use individually giving us feedback on rough cuts of our film portraits for our third project brief. The main feedback that I got was to try and focus on one aspect of my subject […]
Read more "Here’s A Tip For You"In this week’s lectorial, we were given an introduction into narrative. The example that was used in class was a documentary called, Mistaken For Strangers directed by Tom Beringer to explain the three act structure. I’ve watched documentaries here and there, but I never really thought that the three act structure can actually be applied […]
Read more "Story Time"