This week in Screen Lab, we were introduced to our Studio Teacher, Cat Lew – who spent the first class with us breaking down the course and what is expected of us over the next semester. Our second class of the week we continued to discuss our assignment coming up as well as had a guest speaker from ACMI – Videographer Field Carr. Carr gave us an overview of ACMI, as well as discussed the exhibition we will be apart of with our video contributions at the end of the semester.

Some key learning we did this week in the studio in terms of conceptual elements was the covering of the elements of film form (i.e. Literary Design (Story ideas/script), Visual Design (What we see in the frame), Performance, Blocking, Cinematography (Choices made for the camera), Editing and Sound Design) as well as the idea of the Three-Act-Structure; which is a model used in narrative fiction that divides the story into three parts or acts (Open/Set-Up, Conflict, Resolution).

The main media making elements I experienced and completed in the studio this week was beginning pre-production for Assignment One, where we began to brainstorm ideas for our short directors cut film, using softwares such as CELTX and Storyboarder.