Making 2067 was one of the best experiences I’ve had so far. It was intense and fun, relaxing and torturing all at once. I feel like I’ve become more comfortable with expressing my ideas as the semester progressed and I’ve learned that putting myself out there fearlessly was the only way to find like-minded people and I’m proud of myself…
Category: Media 2
2067 – Post-production
I was busy with essays so I didn’t start editing until the day before the screening where we’re asked to screen our rough edits. So I quickly put something together the night before that. I was not worried about the visuals because I knew they’d connect seamlessly and make sense once I put them together. The only thing I was…
2067 – Production
We filmed Maddy’s part on Saturday and everything went well. It’s our first time ever officially shooting and working together and I’m glad that we all tried our best to be professional and had fun along the way. I know I’ve said probably a million times that the four of us got along very well and Lauren, our actress, also…
2067 – Pre-production
After agreeing on doing a sci-fi film with the main character being an AI, we went into script writing and asked everyone to write some plots/scenes or even lines that they wanted to see in the film. I couldn’t think of what I should do until the afternoon before the meet up, where we sat down and talked to Paul…
Color Grading Exercise
I took a random shot and color graded it using Premiere Pro. The first one has a cold tone, which goes with our idea of sci-fi as it is the common tone that’s used in the genre. I color graded the second one into a pink-lilac tone as I attempted to make it look dreamy. I was thinking of the…
Scene Analysis #2
In this blog post I’ll be analyzing a scene from The Lobster (2015), directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Collin Farrel, Ben Wishaw, Rachel, Weisz and Léa Seydoux. In a dystopian future, or strange alternative present, adults who are single, either through failure to find a partner or bereavement, must check into a hotel with other singles and find a genuinely…
Development of Ideas
A screen shot from Her, I thought it’s beautiful and has a feeling of isolation. A screen shot from Cloud Atlas, I cannot remember what the plot is about during this bit, but it’s a very sad part where all the A.I. girls find out that the nutrition fluids they drink to maintain their life is actually made of broken…
Location Scouting for Our Film
On the Sunday of week 7, we decided to meet outside class and scout for locations in the CBD area. I mainly walked around the Southern Cross, Southbank and Docklands area where there were a lot of skyscrapers and modern architecture. The video contains two parts, with each of them representing a type of look that I want to explore…
Week 7 Exercise
In this week’s studio, my crew and I explored different types of shots and lighting. Basically we just carried the camera and the tripod and walked around in NAS, taking turns to film and act. Our ideas on the film just started to come together, so we talked a lot about how we wanted our film to look like…
Week 5 Exercise
In week 5’s studio, we started to go into lighting design. We were tasked with finding places that have dappled, diffused or reflected lighting to film at according to given scripts. I chose to film at the café in building 10. The lighting there was high-key and warm and the location had glasses reflecting the lights on both sides of…