Week 4’s reading: Andrea Kuhn, “Who Is Organising It? Importance of Production and Team Members (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” in Setting Up a Human Rights Film Festival, vol. 2, Human Rights Film Network, Prague, 2015, pp. 71-83. This week, I decided to have a crack at summarising and talking about the assigned … Continue reading Assignment 2: Week 4.
News Is A Joke: Research Part 2. News Is A Joke: Pre-Research Post. News Is A Joke: Reflective Writing from Week 2’s Class.
From my research, I gathered some facts about Kim Jong-un’s childhood and teenage years. Firstly, from the images that we used in the articles, he looked like such an unhappy child growing up. But I think that’s what you get when your father is “Supreme Leader” of a seriously oppressed nation. Like look at how … Continue reading News Is A Joke: Research Part 2.
I do apologise that I’ve done this blog post last minute (sorry for joining the last minute squad Ruth!). We spent the start of the class, going through the reading and watching examples of comedy news episodes. This studio gave the entire class the chance to pitch their idea from the first assignment. There were … Continue reading News Is A Joke: Reflective Writing from Week 2’s Class.
Make The Bed: Reflection. Make The Bed. This exercise required us to make our bed. It seemed like something so simple but honestly, I was somewhat struggling to come up with ways to shoot this simple yet daunting class exercise. Reason being that there were so many ways to come up with something creative and … Continue reading Assessment 2: Reflecting on Class Exercises.
El labrintio del fauno, translated means Pan’s Labyrinth, written and directed by Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro, plays with elements of dark fantasy. This post will analyse certain aspects (lighting, sound, camera shots etc.) and how The opening scene to this part of the Pan’s Labyrinth starts with a close up of an egg … Continue reading Assessment 2: Scene Analysis.
Entered the workshop, thinking that we’d be learning something new or discuss the lectorial from the previous day. But nah, we ended up getting mixed up into groups to talk about our blogs and ways we could improve them. To be fair, the experience wasn’t that bad but after a while, we just stopped discussing … Continue reading Week 4: Workshop.
Today’s lectorial was based around the idea of how we, as students, are becoming media practitioners. Reflecting is a part of practice. Why do we reflect? Having watched a 20 minute video clip by Cal Newport, he discussed the idea of how people follow their passion and make a living out of it. It’s ironic … Continue reading Lectorial Week 4.
From the beginning, I was rather afraid by the brief because I had never touched Premiere Pro prior to this. Coming up with the idea was difficult because all the content had to be new for this assignment and being away from home, I didn’t have the luxury to have my family or friends to … Continue reading Self Portrait: Reflection.
This video shows me and how I usually spend my days, never wanting to get up in the morning to making milo because it reminds me of home and speaking to my family, in the languages/dialects they taught me. Oh and the ending is just me being like being awkward (don’t mind me!)