I wanted to join the studio just by the name of it. “Translating Observation”, I thought to myself, “it would be interesting to learn how to translate our thoughts and observations to a film.” My goal is to become a director so I should be familiar with film language.
After the first week, I can tell that this studio will be composed of two parts: writing and filming. I think it’s a great process. The “writing” is about first translate your thoughts into words so that everyone else can understand you; then the second part is about learning to use film language to speak. Writing using the traditional language that we refer to is the one way that as we students most familiar with, so starting from translating thoughts to paper is the most convenient and easiest way for us to express thoroughly and came up with elements we missed for the observation. When we write, we usually think more compared to just describe it verbally. A lot of writing exercises really builds my ability to communicate ideas, inspirations and emotions. So hopefully my writings will be improved by the end of the studio and at least try to find the film language of my own style. For the technical part, I have no worries because I’m really good at those things. Figuring out what does those buttons and numbers mean will become the basic knowledge to know.
During Wednesday’s class, we learnt the basics of setting up a camera on tripod. I’ve never used the Sony EX3, so it’s a bit of new thing for me. (It’s only my first year in university after all.) I thought he procedure was quite easy but took time. I guess that’s why film productions are big projects. It consumes time, madly.
