Week #11 Practical: Audio Essay rough cut

By rough cut, I mean really rough cut; so rough that it doesn’t exist at this point. My group has been through a plenitude of re-hauls in direction, from social media to audiences and back and it seems like we’ll never find a nice topic to settle on. At this point, we’ve a rough draft of a script with parts floating around in all different directions.

We had complications with one of group members (who was on narration) during the past few days which set us back a week but we can and will rebuild. Audition is a feisty beast that can be tamed.

Brian set us in motion with a few tips on the texture of the essay, recommending we head down to the ACMI site and catch some ‘on-the-fly’ audio. And so we did. And what a journey it was. The other members of my group had never been so it was an enlightening experience for them personally (I hope/I guess) and for us as a group, which may sprout newer, more creative ideas in the future. Bring on week 12.

Margot Nash: A Cinematheque Retrospective

Tonight the Cinematheque hosted their weekly screening this week in the small cinema at ACMI which unfortunately was the night where their filmmaker in focus was actually at the screening. Margot Nash introduced her new film The Silences and answered the crowd’s various inquiries; an enlightening, and unconventionally New Zealand (if not partly Australian) experience. Right on.

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