Film Festival Reflection

week 7

Student Name: Yating Shi

Student Number: s3614117

As time goes on, we are getting closer to the date of the film festival, and I can feel everyone’s attention at this phase. Although with the increase of pressure, we did feel the pleasure of this course. Watching some results unfold slowly, I can’t wait to know what interesting and exciting things will happen on the day we hold it and how the audience will respond to our film festival. It’s meaningful for me because it’s my first time I’ve personally hold a film festival.

This week, we finally started making trailers about Chinese people. However, it’s not as interesting and simple as we thought, it’s a long process. On the day of the shooting, everything seemed to be going smoothly, but when we edited it on the laptop, we found that some of the shots were not stable enough, some of the backgrounds were exposed and some of the noise was very loud. We can only try to fix it or re-shoot it. It took us nearly a week. It’s a challenge for us not only to highlight the theme of our festival but also to make our trailer nature and interesting. However, my team members give us a lot of help. Through their shooting draft, also let us have more inspiration. Through our online communication and meeting outside, I am still confident and looking forward to our works.

In my reflection last week, I mentioned that the most important thing about a film festival is its content. What kind of movies we need to think about is what we want to present to the audience. Marco Muller says that film festivals should ‘reveal what the markets hide (Cousins, M 2019). So, when we lock in a movie, we should consider whether the content of movies is innovation, interesting, or controversial, but the pressure will follow. Finally, I hope that the trailer we made will attract many people in the end. And I also hope I can be fully involved in this process, and even put forward some ideas to help others relieve stress.

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Reference:

Mark Cousins, “Film Festival Form: A Manifesto (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” on “The Film Festival Academy.” website, accessed 12 April 2019.