Part 2 of Replacement of 16th and 19th Classes

Watching “The Fire from Within” (1963) shot in comparison to the shot from Gossip Girl was such a huge difference. My first thoughts of the Fire from Within shot was that it would have been a nightmare to have filmed that shot. If they had…

Class #3

In class number 3 we talked about the focus puller among other jobs that are on a film set. I have only worked on small film sets in the past, so I actually was unaware that there is a person with the specific job of…

Chapter Notes

What is a shot, anyway? To be honest, I have worked on a couple of films sets now and obviously studied this area for about 3 years now and haven’t properly thought about what the definition of a shot is. I believe I have used…

Thoughts on the Course

From my understanding of the studio description for this class we are investigating and researching how a scene can be covered. In particular a scene in a fictional piece. I think what seems particularly interesting about this concept is that the coverage of the scene,…

Week 1 Reflecting – THE SCENE IN CINEMA

CLASS 1 This week in the first class in small groups we did live performances of the scripts we were given. I thought this was a very clever way to straight way to get to the point of what coverage is in fiction cinema. I…

Peer Review Assignment 3

Trista This piece was by far my favourite! When we were at the exhibition I think I spent a solid ten minutes playing with her project and trying to master playing! It was such a clever but simple idea, one of those things that makes…

Assignment 3 Reflection

  Screenshot of my project! (click for full screen) Please follow this link for a video of my project! When I first started this project I was planning on fine tuning and adding some more technical pieces to my first project. I re-created my first…

Melbourne Museum Research Trip

I saw lots of interesting interactive exhibits at the museum. Here are some photos of one of my favourites:   These three televisions were set in a room with couches. It was telling a short documentary about Australian suburbs. I didn’t watch the whole documentary…

Peer Review Assignment 2

The first project I played around with was Justin Harvey’s. I think that he must of put a lot of thought into this project and it turned out really well! I really like the inclusion of the video in the background that changes colours. And…

Assignment 2!

Group Project Artist Statement An idea we wanted to explore in our project was the idea of what beauty is and what society thinks beauty is. The ‘ideal’ face as represented in society, is a symmetrical face. We explored this idea through having a webcam…