What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait? In other words, what is the most interesting thing about your participant/interviewee that you want to communicate? The controlling idea behind my portrait is the dedication and passion required to pursue a career or interest…
I started with the idea of ‘journey’, as I feel I’m still figuring out who I am, and this concept accurately depicts how I feel about where I’m at in my life currently. I focused a lot on trains, as there is a train line…
After last weeks workshop, the haiku exercise was set in order to help us practice and improve our skills using Adobe Premiere Pro. I have worked with other versions of the software in the past, so although this is not my best work, it was…
In Thursday’s workshop, we used the coloured hat system as a way of giving constructive feedback to our classmates about their lo-fi media self-portraits. The system uses four different ‘hats’ to focus on different kinds of feedback. Red hat – signifies feelings, hunches and intuition Black…
This week’s reading was a little different, in that it was actually a comic. Scott McCloud’s “Blood in the Gutter” analysis different kinds of comics, and the sort of transitions they use from frame to frame. He sorts these transitions into the following 6 categories:…