Week 6

This week we wrote a short script about documentary, I already post this script on my blog. On Thursday class, my classmates went to shoot two short scripts, because I already did this exercise in last semester, so I stay in the classroom and discussed my previous project with Robin. Robin gave me a useful feedback. He supports the split screen idea, which I used in my project. As he said, we have to evoke some ideas from this class, and create our own ‘film’. However, the thing I should improve is the specificities of theme. In the design of split screen, I am mainly focus on the daily general routine of people, rather than a specific and meaningful area. So in the next split screen project I ‘ll try to find more specific area to present.

On Friday class, I wrote a basic draft of my next individual project. Undoubtedly, the style of this project is a split screen too. Before I did the project I generally analyzed the usages of split screen, however in the first exercise, I just focus on one of those usages. In the next project, I hope I can naturally and suitably combine those different usages together. For example, I may use the split screen to show the cityscape, which emphasize the artistic visual effect. Also, split screen is able to show different perspectives in the same time. So I will use split screen to instead of frequent shot cutting, this must be so interesting. Actually, this is a big challenge for me, because compare with the normal film, the split screen film must have more footage in the same length. And the director have to consider how to make the shot be logic and not chaotic. I will continue consider and design it in a clear way, I hope I can finally successful complete this special film.