After talking more about what we will be doing for the remainder of the semester, I am probably going to lean less towards creating a short film as a whole and more towards creating little scenes individually. I have to say, already this is making things a great deal less stressful, because it is more realistic to focus on little tasks rather than having this big task ahead of me. I may even be able to create better content because now I can focus on things I that I want to work on and improve on.

In class today we considered everything we have done in the semester and wrote down what we are interested in and this was really helpful. Through considering everything we’ve done, it gave me the chance to really see that I want to work with lighting, and probably focus more on artificial lighting and different sources of light, because we haven’t gone quite in depth in lighting so far in the semester.

What I think I might make:
Short scenes
Investigations
Exercises (perhaps like the expertise exercise we did in class)

How are you going to work:
I would like to work collaboratively and/or help crew on other people’s projects

I’ve been thinking about how I have never really worked a great deal with lighting in filmmaking. I have like a drama and performance sort of background and lighting was always one of the most important visual elements and I have never really translated that into my film products. So I’m thinking maybe I can explore through investigations how lighting can alter the way an audience perceives a character or location.

In terms of visual and narrative content, I’m thinking maybe I could do some long take scenes in a drama style, because I’ve never really considered myself to be great at writing dialogue I could possibly try this out. Since I’m not trying to make a short film anymore, I could probably make like a series of 1 minute scenes.