What do you understand this studio to be about?

First of all, I quite like this quote: “Through segmentation, the script or the written

the assemblage of visual ideas ceases to be literature and becomes cinema.” (Luis Bunuel 1928). A good film has a well shot, with excellent camera angles and wonderful performances. And make an article or novel becomes cinema. Lots of classic dramas, films, and technology come from the very old generation. But we still using it now day. Such as camera angles, the frame, and the camera language, etc. And also we need t to learn the knowledge of film generation.

 

What do you hope to get from it? What skills, perspective, and/or understandings would you like to have developed by the end of this semester?

I hope to get knowledge about the camera language, camera position, camera angle, and how to use the camera to tell stories to the audience. And also I want to learn scripts witting and reading. I am working as a cinematographer and I also doing color grading of the film and video. Maybe in the future, I would like to be a director. So I must know the whole work-flow in the film. I want to use cameras to make my stories more interesting. I want to learn how to set a camera to show the words, non-verbal behavior, stage dispatch, and direction.

 

Did anything come as a revelation to you? Did you learn something new technically; about the camera or film craft in general?

I learned a lot from the first week. I quite like our scrips. Because it is a standard script format which I can use this format in my future work. And also I learned how to analyze the film in one scene. And I learned how to draw a storyboard and floor plan from the script. We analyze some of the scripts as a small group. We learned how to film a story when the camera is sitting in the same place without tracking, zooming, and dolly shot. I think this course will help me a lot this semester and in the future.