Week 4 (Thursday the 23rd of March)

As week four comes to a close project brief twos deadline draws near. This project included creating a short fashion film. My group for this project included Emily, Lisa, Kasia and myself. I know, personally I wanted to create a certain vibe and tone. I’m extremely into experimental film as well as atmospheric and mood enhancing cinematography. For this project, all four of us decided to film in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy- as it’s a location that has a lot of character and fashion.

 I brought my Panasonic LUMIX GH4 to film with and set it on an ISO of around 400 with a f-stop of 2.8 and a shutter speed of 1/1000, I also made the tonal quality look less vibrant and more cinematographic to create a certain high-fashion flare. I intentionally chose to go in and out of focus whilst filming as an experimental stunt to enhance the viewer’s perspective. My aim is always to play around with the camera and create something new and different that appeals to myself as well as making an audience question the artist choice. I film with meaning and emotion and I like to put that into practice.

It was fun working with a team that had a similar image in mind, it meant that compromising and working together was easy and everyone seemed to understand each other. This is an important aspect especially for me; as I’m a student who is interested in experimental film it’s always nice to have a team support my artistic choices and allow me to be creative. I also supported the idea that each of us make our own version of the edit- this meant that we all could have a practice creating a rush and messing around with the material. I know when I film I have very strong direction and I would say cinematography is one of the main aspects of film I enjoy. I really want to create a full experimental piece sometimes In the future and I never saw fashion as a place to do so until now. It was interesting to hear in Week 3 a speaker come in from the fashion industry and talk to us about his work, I know now it’s definitely an area I want to dance and roam within and hope throughout this studio I am able to.

There wasn’t anything difficult about this assessment I’d say the only thing I find ‘hard’ is re-editing and replaying footage over and over again. Although I will say when I get bored of a project I generally pack it away and come back to it when I’m in a better mind state of course this doesn’t take into account deadlines so if there’s a deadline for a project it means you have to work on it even when you’re sick of seeing the same footage on repeat. I understand this is the industry and it’s also what makes it so fun- working and testing your limits under pressure.  I  have a very artistic style that comes to me in waves, when I have an idea I like to stay true to it so it will be interesting how I evolve in a commercial sense If I need to and if i’m able to keep my style. I find this studio has given me a lot of motivation to pursue my own ideas and I question why I haven’t done so before, I really have a passion in filming and I’m looking forward to learning more from the industry professionals who visit us during our studio. Hopefully in the future I can write and direct in my spare time and create a portfolio, fashion and music video with a very dark, moody atmosphere are what I’m most attracted to but I don’t want to close any doors as I’m always open to boost my creativity in a range of directions.