Monthly Archives for April 2016
Narrative and Mystery Road
Bordwell and Thompson consider a narrative to be a chain of events in a cause and effect relationship occurring in time and space. That is, each event in the story will lead to another until it reaches a conclusion to … Continue reading
Tangerine
Although ‘Tangerine’ came out last year, it wasn’t until starting my cinema studies class earlier this year that I heard about it. IMDB’s premise for the film ‘A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who … Continue reading
Non-Narrative
Week Seven’s reading on “non narrative” was an exert from D. Bordwell and K.Thompson, 2006, Film Art: An Introduction. As a cinema studies student I’m all too familiar with this textbook and actually had completed half this reading a few … Continue reading
Broad City
Watching the last episode of season three of Broad City just picked up on this not so subtle use of mis en scene, sorry for the awful quality screenshot. This season of Broad City has been really different from the … Continue reading
Review
Take Your Chances from Samuel Harris on Vimeo. Sam used found footage really effectively in his film, it was all relevant and enhanced his portrait without feeling unnatural. His interview subject was really interesting and well spoken. The editing … Continue reading
Week Four Workshop
Formal Interview: I decided to put music underneath this interview rather than foley as I felt it more suited to a formal interview style that would take place in a studio rather than on the street. Informal Interview: This one … Continue reading
Project Brief Three: Reflection
I consider the most successful aspect of my portrait to be the sound quality. Given my subject is a musician I think sound played quite an important part in the portrait, I originally intended to use music from her studio … Continue reading
Comedy Festival
Over the past month I’ve worked for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival handing out flyers. Standing outside Town Hall for three or four hours a night for a month exposed me to the best and worst of Melbourne’s population – … Continue reading
PB3 Synopsis
“Vic” In her first ever interview, Victoria Meehan discusses how she got started in her career as a singer/songwriter, her artistic process and the obstacles she’s had to overcome to be successful.
Week Six Workshop Exercise
What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait? The most interesting thing I want to communicate about Vic is her passion for her work. Music is what she really loves to do and I hope that comes across in … Continue reading