Unfortunately due to late enrollment, I missed the studio sessions in Week One and the relevant exercises. Since being in class, reading the studio brief and discussing with fellow students I am beginning to acknowledge the patterns, habits and traditional methods we are subject to in filmmaking and our True to Form studio is encouraging us to flip these models on their head.

It is hard to shake of the principles that already feel deep-rooted in how I would approach filmmaking due to the past two years of vocational education and from ongoing personal reflection. I am nervous to challenge the methods I’ve become so familiar with but excited of the possible outcomes that come with finding new approaches.

I look forward to the personal discovery of how I work – What am I comfortable with? How do I respond to creative congestion? How do my original concepts develop over time?

The Studio’s Brief proposes how our conception, development and production of short film projects can be limited by its commitment to a particular form and we should consider that the form and content of our work be determined by our creative vision. This is a really inspiring notion and I am already wondering how I can begin to apply this to my current work and current ways of thinking.

In relation to my examination of how abstract cinema attempts to realize an idea and if that idea is observable to its audience, I am wondering if the True to Form notion applies? Does the artist or filmmaker begin knowing they will create cinema for the abstract genre or do they just create, and find themselves within an abstract world?