A scene does not need a narrative
Its just fun camera working
How could I show this? (this scenario)
Whats the best way to express the realization on camera and on screen.

It’s normal for me to want to capture something as it happens in the passage of time and while life passes me by I ponder how amazing it would be if life could be compiled into a movie

Some films like chung king express talk about life not as if they know it but as art.

Music should be used to say something the audience doesn’t know.
Rather than the same things that the audience already knows

Work best with constraints

Shot for shot remakes: what the fuck for.

The emission of words that is able to construct a sense?
Missing bits of a scene have a great effect.
Style oriented? To be cool?

A jeweler can tell the difference between diamond and glass

An ellipses suggests something instead of explaining it.

Sample writing in class

As a practitioner and a student of film studies, I think I generalize too much when it comes to a visual experience. I’ve been stuck on understanding things as a whole rather than individually, and because of that I miss out on a lot of the detail. And that’s what I learn in this class.
It is purely about specifications. Lighting, distance between subject and camera, framing, cuts; the whole lot.

There have been several times where I imagine my life being filmed, almost like the Truman show. And when I’m just staring into nothingness, I imagine how I look sitting down face scrunched, deep in thought.
This has also happened in significant moments of my life, and I think of how amazing it would be if I could record moments of life as it happens naturally.

But I often brush off these thoughts and am bombarded with other things like blog posts. The most recent example was when I was back home and I just returned from travelling and my grand father was in critical condition in the cancer unit.

I came in and family members hurdled around the bed, clothes shrugging as they take a peep at who’s at the door. with their feet and shoulders faced towards the bed.
And I immediately looked at the feet, and their faces. So I imagine a close up. And as I move deeper into the room I imagine a tracking shot with a dolly from behind me, then I see one of my aunties warming up grandpa’s cold skinny hands.
And my eyes were focused on only that, so yet another close up.
Then it’s a close up of the gloom faces that feel pain in the air.
And I proceeded to kiss his hand because it’s a custom for younger people to greet elders with that gesture.
And as I did that people moved back, and I imagine the camera to be in the same place it was before where it captures everyone’s backs and you only see a man on the bed in the centre.
That stuck with me because not long after that he died. And it’s nice to have these short scenes in my head replaying repeatedly when I think of Brunei.

So in a way I want to capture things as one would in life. Very swift and unassumingly changing the pace.

I remember last year, we watched and analyzed Chungking express and femme une femme. They both have similar attributes in a sense that they don’t talk of life because they know it; they just present life as art. Although the idea of making a colourful and lively scene sounds amazing, how real is it? What does it speak and represent about the world we live in? I suppose it’s a theme I wish to explore, real cinema; that is art through camera VS real life caught on camera.
So my pursuit is not necessarily perfection but more about capturing or recreating something close to the truth.