Film Festivals

We are nearing the end semester and therefore nearly finished the final cut of film project two – Sentiment. It is recommended that we research festival and platform research for the exhibition of your film work. While we probably won’t be submitting our film anywhere, it is a good chance to see what else is […]

Sound Design

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) not only has great cinematography but an intricate sound design. One particular scene that I will be looking at is when Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) makes the difficult decision to leave his family behind and head off into space in order to find a new habitable planet. At the start of the scene […]

Michel Chion Theories Sound

Michel Chion is a French theorist and composer. His book ‘Audio-vision: Sound on screen‘ (1976) offers many analysis of sound used in films and its effect on the audience. Synchresis as Chion states is the “the forging of an immediate and necessary relationship between something one sees and something one hears.” When watching a film audience […]

Production Day #2

Production day two, like production day one, was really organised and successful filming day. Again, both of us were directing the production and this ensured that we captured our shots effectively and gave each other feedback and decide on how it can be improved upon to get the best possible effect. I managed to get […]

Production Day #1

Our first production day went really well. Kay was able to film some of the home scenes beforehand. Our main filming location was at Port Melbourne Beach. Both of us had a clear idea of how we wanted our film to look and collaboratively planned many of the shots in pre-production, it meant our first […]