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Week 8 lecture, Media 1

Korsakow clips mean nothing on their own, they gain meaning through their connections to other clips.

Filtered through the subjectivity of the maker. Doesn’t have to be grounded in reality. It’s all about the voice of the filmmaker. The essay and its relationship with experience. Documentary is all non-fictional cinema. Essay films are a category within documentary. Not so much telling you what to think as an invitation to think with the creator. Exploratory as it is a thinking through of a … who knows what.

Style and genre differ. Genre has specific qualifiers that make it a specific genre, styles have different elements that are similar but can fit into different genres. Genre is more about content than how you make it go about. Style is about what it is about. Our Korsakow films can be any genre, but the style is important.

We cannot know what our intent is. Intent does not survive anything. Parody and satire undermine intent. Intent counts for nothing.

Media 1 Lecture Week 6

If you’ve only got a hammer, you see everything as a nail. 

I like this as an example. Rather, think about everything that you can do with the hammer.

It’s nice not to have your expectations being satisfied every time, not being told what to think.

Fuck Hollywood.

Listen to your ingredients

Think creatively about the limitations of your medium, what you can and can’t do, what you can and can’t make, in order to make the best thing possible.

Week 5 Lecture Notes and Thoughts Media 1

Experimental films are art for art’s sake- non argument. Beautiful things should be beautiful in themselves. It doesn’t need to do more than that to be valuable.

The value is in the perception of the viewer but it doesn’t need to have a distinct purpose. It will affect the way that people see things, even if only slightly and only for a moment.

Everything we do and everything around us has to give us something. What does the world owe me? Not the way to think.

Sell an experience not a product. What sort of experience can I provide here?

When making something you need to think about the experience it provides, this is what people are interested in now. Times have shifted from product focus to experience focus.

Documentary is future orientated.

Korsakow makes you think differently about your role as maker.

I’m excited about this. I want to see what I can do with the strange clips I’ve taken and how I will think about these in conjunction with each other. I want to see what I can do and be creative within the limitations of what I cannot do. Also, how will the medium of i-doc alter my thought process as a creator?

A close reading is not deconstruction.

Notes and thoughts on this week’s lecture, Media 1

Reality television programs are not just a television program, they are a broad media sphere, driven toward appealing to the public sphere in order to create profit. 

Well in my opinion this isn’t just reality television, it’s most media productions. In this day and age, if you’re sticking to one form of media in order to produce some kind of work and this isn’t a strategic move, you’re doing it wrong. People engage with a huge range of different media forms per day, if you want to be noticed or create some sort of effect, you have to integrate different media forms in your one endeavour.

Accessibility of media production devices is creating an avalanche of rubbish work (in comparison to professional work). 

I completely agree with Adrian when he said that you can’t compare documentation media to story media. Anything that was created with intent and was planned is immediately going to be more creative  than mere personal documentation  or random videos of cats.

There’s also this idea that amateur work that might not be to the standard of professional work is becoming more and more prevalent and this is true, because of the democratisation of media form and media devices. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it makes it more difficult for people like me who are trying to create work and get noticed, to achieve anything. In a way this is still a good thing because it means you have to push yourself to create really good work in order to be noticed.

Unprofessional is uninhibited.

This is a really good point. As soon as someone else’s expectations are placed on your work you begin to doubt it and change it and conform. This isn’t always a good thing. Say you win a government grant to create a short film. Your equipment quality and actors might improve but the things you can do will be limited. No longer can you criticise the government, or show certain themes.