#8 – 6/4/2016

Today’s class was spent filming a scene that we had planned in yesterday’s tute. It depicted some university students making their way to class and running into a troublesome dude named Charlie, who may have been drunk. It was pretty hilarious. The day was really wet and rainy, and we had to shoot the scene on the stairs behind building 9. This caused a number of OHS problems and slowed our shoot down considerably.

Throughout the shoot, our film crew ran into a number of issues that forced us to ponder our direction and how we were going to approach the next set of tasks. Sam, our director, did a really good job in keeping everyone in line and making sure we were all focused and attentive to the job at hand.

It’s funny because when you think of your favourite films, you think of them on a creative level. I mostly think about the creation of ideas that happens in the directors’ head on how they visualise a film to ‘look’. By partaking in shoots and this studio in general, i’m starting to look at films in a more technical way.

How were they created? Why did the director choose this shot?

These are all questions that are starting to become regular occurrences within my thought processes. As the semester goes on, I can only imagine that these questions will become stronger and easier to answer.