This week I was absent for the class on Thursday, later I asked Lisha and Mona about what they did, and they told me basically they did a writing exercise and used Premiere to edit the footage we took last week. I will do the exercise later in my next post and in this post I will focus on the shooting on Friday class.
On the Friday morning we watched some abstract documentary made by Dutch and American directors. I was quite impressed by the way they filmed, because there is usually no clear narrative and meaning of the shots. You even don’t know what they want to say through the film. These we call abstract films are interesting but hard to define. And after watching we went outside to shoot our own six shots. Although these shots are not directly relevant, but while the discussion and shooting we did make some plans and consider about how to edit them together later next week. So what I try to achieve is to take some abstract and confusing shots, and put them in a certain order to make them somehow meaningful. And while planning this, I really find it is interesting: I might not deliberately make up the story, but when you look at and think about it, a ‘rough’ story appears, and it seems reasonable and logical.
However, there were some problems worth noticing during the shooting: again, a little bit over exposed, camera was shaking and not realizing there was a better location for the camera. The only way to improve it, in my opinion, is to practice more frequently and get more familiar with it.