September | 2017 | Michael Firus

Final Project Idea development: Second Shoot

For the purposes of furthing my idea and to have more footage to play with in the edit, I undertook a second shoot for the final project.

Final Project Idea development: Results of First Shoot

During the first shoot for my final project, a number of key logistical elements were learnt. Furthermore, a great number of beautiful images immerged from the day’s filming. Not only are these stills from video interesting in their own right, the making of them proved valuable for my exploration of posible camera angles, framing and…

Scene Deconstruction: The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson’s 2007 adventure comedy-drama film The Darjeeling Limited relies on many elements of filmmaking in order to construct sentiment and narrative meaning. In terms of production design, immediately apparent in this clip is its use of authentic on-location filmmaking. Principal photography, from which this clip of course originates, took place over a number of…

Exploration

The above clips represent a small amount of the footage taken on the day. For my final project for this studio, I decided to take some initial test shots. This was to work out how to coordinate logistical problems as well as ascertain whether such content was as interesting as I had originally anticipated. Indeed,…

Love in the library

The above project constitutes the most enjoyable piece of impromptu classwork I have done in the studio so far. It is an example of those rare moments where all elements seem to come together with elegance. This is not to say it lacked challenges, quite the contrary. However they were the type of difficulties that…

Lighting Exercise

This exercise offered an intriguing exploration of lighting. Tasked with finding some distinctive lighting around campus, my goal for this exercise was two-fold. First of all, I wanted it to simply be an exploration of the conventional practice of lighting the “off-side” of the actor’s face. Second of all, I wanted to see how a…

Colour Grading

Through colour grading, a multitude of differing meanings can be created using the same footage. This post is an exploration of these meanings. For this exercise, I will use footage I have shot that I intend to use (in part of course) in my final project. All the following colour work was done within the…

Final Project Idea development: Logistics

Over the last weekend, I undertook the first shoot for my final project. The footage shot so far was primarily for the purposes of exploration of the logistical issues that might come up, and indeed, some of the footage could be used in the final product. In order to achieve the desired fog for the…