Assignment 5 Final Reflection
In this final reflection, the studio I was assigned to is DELIBERATE-FILM, is the learning of filmmaking inspired by prompts and guided with constraints. After I viewed the work that the students made from this studio. I found out is about the process of filmmaking and I also appreciate to what they came out with such nice work during the COVID-19 situation.
When I was work in my studio-THE SCENE IN CINEMA, it is quick hard for me to do the experiment when I was going to practice with framing and some other thing needs the equipments. What the students done from this studio were really extraordinary. They had awesome collaboration even it was online.
One of their work I was impressive was “SLEEPLESS THINGS-LILI CALLISTO”. I got to know their process and how they achieve the cooperation online using group chat. I think it was so important that everyone involved in the project that the group mates shared their ideas or their comment to what other people’s thought. Filmmaking is no a one person job, it is always a teamwork and it depends on the teamwork. What I think to their work was fabulous. It helps me get to know how the film processing, and also it was so clear to see their organisation like the shot list, shooting schedule, floor plan and also the storyboard. When I have learnt from my studio, Robin also asked us to do the floor plan and storyboard as well. And he also shared a lot of information when we was watching some clips that he shared with us, it was so great that he talked about the characters’ performance, the camera movement and also I had a chance to see the floor plan they used for the scene. The other point that I was admired is the camera movement of “SLEEPLESS THINGS”, the final shot of the film was quick nice which makes me curious about how they achieve that, the camera movement was smooth, I assume that they used the stabilizer, and the angle they choose was interesting.
I took a look of ‘DISAPPEARING ACT’ AND REFLECTIONS – EAMON WILLIS’.Eamon’s work focused on the essence of shot construction and editing. Eamon’s work focused on eye-line matching. The male character looking screen left and being on the right, whilst she is on the right side of the screen, looking left. Then the other skill, editing, felt seamless. Eamon successfully, engaged in what Paul made an important film-making practice, ‘shoot to edit.’ Eamon utilized J and L cuts, which made the piece flow really nicely. Eamon established the 180 degree rule, I assume the camera was on the table.
I also watched “BETRAYED”, there were two films they made with the same script, I just want to see the difference. The “BETRAYED” by Miranda Hatzimoisis was only 50 seconds and the “BETRAYED” by Nat Lauriola was 70 seconds. Why the second one is longer than the first one? You see the second one had more B roll for the scene, it showed the rainy day and also the view from the female character’s house which I think created more atmosphere for the short film, it helps audience get into the story. The first one was short but it was quite clear to show the conflict between the characters. Nat Lauriola’s video included the process of the project. It shows the rough cut, the framing test, lighting test, the color grade before and after and also the VFX. It was great to spend the time on the lighting, and I was getting to know the different lighting shows on people’s face. The color grading, it can convey so many different meanings. The process of colour-grading just makes me think a lot about how important it is to understand how colours work and how to make the most out of it. Colors can convey meaning and immediately change the tone of a scene just by slightly adjusting its hues, saturation or brightness.
What Paul described about their studio work, is they had to change gears and figure out a different way to make films. We experimented with animatics instead of storyboards. The point here was to shoot three different animatic versions which utilise different framing and actions. During the lockdown situation, they are still creative to do such project at home. It was great to see how they overcome the difficulties and had great collaboration. I get to know how to process a film from their studio. In my studio, I get involved in the information the film shares to us. What I want to make progress through getting the knowledge from these two studio is to consider the different aspects of filmmaking. To pay more attention of the details and think about how cooperation to make ideal team work.