Frankly I found it rather disappointing that the course had a radical shift of direction and purpose even. I was hoping to make a movie, it could be shown as part of my portfolio later down the road. But having much thought about it, i have reason with the situation and do agree on the significance of ‘the scene in cinema’.

What interests me are long takes. Meticulous, dynamic, in motion (when necessary, like in Birdman). I just feel like the flow of a film changes and slows down or accelerates into something else. I’m imagining climactic scenes. It’s a like a special move before you finish the battle. The detail incorporated within a shot has the potential to stand out and shine from the whole movie, a 1 minute experience of just pure cinematic genius is what I’m looking for.

But speaking of detail, it would realistically take SO much time and effort. Not to mention commitment. if i was the only one onboard an idea, its not possible to be done in 2-3 hours.

It’s hard enough to get a script prose or description, and team up with people of varied experiences with production. In a 3 hour class, its just hectic.

I would to be able to use Dollies and handheld more often in our class, but i understand the challenges that come with that. Where are we going to use the dolly, for how many in a group, who is going to move and set them up. But quite possibly, if we were organised enough, we could split the class in two and whoever isn’t in the production group all stand as extras and the favour is returned for the next class. vice versa.

It would also be nice to use a bigger space for us to ‘experiment’ and run our tests in. I feel like we’re not able to make stuff that’s ‘more amazing’ because we use the same place. Although, that might be the purpose? To reuse the same space and come back with fresh eyes to recreate yet another scene with slightly different approaches to the camera work and direction.

With all these things in mind, I do feel naive and too hopeful, but its compensation for not making a movie I guess.

Cranes would be something to experiment with but if only RMIT had that lying around for us media students to mess around with. we could borrow it from the construction guys. It’s a joke. It would be very unsafe for clumsy teenagers to be doing camera work on building cranes which probably needs a licensed operator. From my last experience of film production, even using glass as a prop is already asking too much. But then again its like comparing an apple with and a zebra.