Today’s class involved Paul going through some lecture slides that set the trajectory for the second half of the semester – what end goal we might get to and how we might get there through the course of the next… Continue Reading
As my initial idea was to explore the history and memories connected to places, the location for a potential short film will be an important aspect to consider. Initially, my go-to instinct was the area of the intersection between Swanston… Continue Reading
COMM1073 TV CULTURES Assessment Task 1, Part B: Address at least one key television/media/cultural studies concept or issues introduced in the lectures, using a show that interests you INTERNET KILLED THE VIDEO STORE: NETFLIX AND SCHEDULING In March this year, Netflix… Continue Reading
COMM1073 TV CULTURES Assessment Task 1, Part A: Write about a course screening (or its genre) BROAD CITY AND CROSSING PLATFORMS Recently, with the increasing power of the digital age, more and more creators are choosing to start out creating content… Continue Reading
In today’s seminar, we were introduced to audio mixers in order to complete a whole audio setup. Having only used SLRs with crappy audio before, all this ‘proper’ sound recording is new to me. Towards the beginning of the class,… Continue Reading
Ever since my spur of inspiration from Nostalgia for the Light, I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes a film visually appealing. Cinematography has become a focus of mine and is something I’d like to keep pursing and improving… Continue Reading
In today’s class, we were again moved to the edit suites. There wasn’t explicit instruction to edit anything specific, so I used the two hour time slot to further familiarise myself with Premiere and experiment with editing our previous class… Continue Reading
When Paul pulled out a writing exercise seemingly out of nowhere on Friday morning, I had a a bit of an internal panic attack. This is because out of all the aspects of a being a film student, the thing… Continue Reading
Not gonna lie, these 8:30 Friday morning studios are pretty brutal and always have me hating everything when I have to leave my bed at 6:30 on a winter morning. But miraculously, somehow by the end of each seminar I… Continue Reading
Today, our class was relocated to the editing suites and we were introduced to Adobe Premiere to set up our own project for the semester. Seeing as I haven’t used Premiere for two years it all looked confusing at first,… Continue Reading