As part of our ongoing research into filmmaking and experimentation/development of creative ideas I have begun trying to notice and reflect upon as much as I can – from feelings, ideas & images that I see during my daily life (at home, at uni, while travelling, etc). This developing habit of internal & external awareness is how the following idea…
Category: Film3 Reflection
MIFF 2015: ‘Vertical Cinema’
Last night I attended one of this year’s MIFF special events – the ‘Vertical Cinema’ screening. I had read a little about this new approach to filmmaking beforehand, and thought that the portrait orientation of the cinema screen would be interesting to experience and beneficial to my own creative ideas. A total of 10 experimental short films were screened; luckily…
Film 3: Writing for Ideas PART2 [11 August]
Exploring the ‘Underground Cave/River Idea’: In week 3 we completed a writing exercise with the aim of fostering the conception and development of ideas for potential fictional film projects. In this exercise I brainstormed 3 ideas – and since then the potential of my third idea has become more apparent. I thought it’d be interesting to create short film product…
Film 3: Part 4 [10 August]
To kick off week 4 we again spent time in Building 9’s edit suites. Today we were let loose in Premiere and encouraged to explore and experiment with the footage we had shot in previous weeks – especially the footage from our ‘abstract’ exercise. Having spent the night before staring at a Premiere timeline for another subject (until 2am), I…
Film 3: Writing for Ideas [7 August]
At the tail end of today’s studio class we began to think about the writing process and ‘new’ – or maybe less conventional ways in which we can write for film. Recently I’ve become more interested in the writing process as it seems like a very important skill to develop (even in a somewhat basic sense) if I plan to…
MIFF 2015: ‘Finders Keepers’ & ‘Raiders!’
As I’m now a media student and an aspiring filmmaker I figured that it was time to start attending some film festival events – with MIFF happening right now there was no better time to start. This week I attended 2 screenings; ‘Finders Keepers’ and ‘Raiders!’ – both were feature length documentaries and both told really interesting stories. I’m a…
Film 3: Part 3 [3 August]
Today our class took place in the edit suites of Building 9 as the beginnings of the Post-Production process were introduced to us. We began by setting up our personal folders on the media server and then establishing our organisational skills and procedures within Adobe Premiere. I’ve been using Premiere (and the other Adobe CC programs) for a few years…
Developing Composition [Part 1]
Currently in ‘Film 3’ we are working on developing our compositional skills, as well as our understandings and knowledge of the cameras and other equipment that we have access to. In our first few classes we practiced framing subjects and actions and properly adjusting exposure settings – after doing this we reflected upon each other’s work and considered what could…
Film 3: Part 2 [27 July]
The second week of ‘Film 3’ began much like the first week – with a practical camera exercise. We again had to capture numerous 50 second shots using the Sony ex3’s, however this time we HAD to direct the actions of our subjects. This really took me back to the days of VCE Media. In our group of 4, we…
Film 3: Goals for the Semester
Film 3 was the studio class that appealed to me the most – and I feel that this was largely due to the briefs and aims that were described in the course’s outline. The somewhat experimental approach to drama/documentary filmmaking attracted my interest as one of my main aspirations at the moment is to uncover and develop my own creative…