In this week’s studio, we had a special guest, Mia Falstein-Rush, share her experience in working in film festivals around Australia. She is a Submissions & Shorts Programmer at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She talked about how film festivals varied from your average cinema in that they add benefit to a cinema screening. This is because they … Continue reading Assignment 2: Week 6.
In Assessment 2, I discussed that my group members and I will be creating a news segment on Kim Jong-un & his younger years. This man’s youth is full of mystery to the public, which fascinates everybody’s curiosity. Going into this, I knew it would be a struggle trying to come up with something creative … Continue reading Assignment 3: The Proposal.
If you had asked me initially how much it would take to put together a segment for a comedy news piece, I would have never thought it would take six weeks from start to end to put one together. The entire process has changed my opinion on how it is put together, especially when we … Continue reading Assignment 3: Week 6 Class Reflection.
It’s the end of the semester but I’m writing about the antics that happened during the week 6 studio. For starters, it was the week before mid semester break so the entire class was eager as a beaver for a week off from uni (yeah I went back to my home country). But enough about … Continue reading Week 6 Weekly Update.
This week, I attended a studio visit entitled True to Form: Filmmaking That is True to Form and Content, which focused on filmmaking and experimentation. Most of the time, myself and Ica (another student) shadowed a small group of media students experimenting with different ideas they had in regards to how they’d want to use lighting in their … Continue reading Week 6: Initiative.
We had a guest speaker, Paul Ritchard, give us a talk about the importance of giving yourself enough time to shoot as more often that not you’ll discover or think of something that was completely unplanned ends up being the best part of your work. He continued to explain the serendipitous nature of shooting, and how the “happy accidents” of … Continue reading Week 6: Lectorial.
Today’s workshop task was to produce a short video with the theme of Misunderstanding in a group. My group’s concept was to have the boyfriend intend to propose to his girlfriend. Having the girlfriend’s hopes crash and burn when he pulled out a video game to play over the weekend and so, she dumps him. … Continue reading Week 6: Workshop