Shoot day 1 & 2

Shoot day 1 Lows: A hilarious thing about shooting is that everything you least expect to happen on the day will happen. For example, we had been to “the break room” countless amounts of times over the last 12 weeks, and it’s is always very…

Storyboarding

I created this storyboard for one of the scenes in the second episode of Human Resources. It’s a good tool, only, you can’t change the eye line of the figures from what I can tell, which is actually a massive flaw. http://www.storyboardthat.com/

When your side rant turns into your blog entry

We shot the remaining scenes for episode 1 and all of episode 2 in two shoot days. The first shoot day involved some scenes at the “break room” and a lot more in the hallway. The second shoot day we were down at the park….

Hearts of Darkness: Case Study

Our studio has been through a lot of trial and tribulation this semester, and it’s no surprise we are feeling a little deflated and uninspired. Even so, we definitely need to keep the energy up to finish this semester. In a meeting with one of…

Conflict

  Here are some quotes that reflect on the well rounded entity that is conflict, most of the quotes a film related. Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. – David Lynch…

Confusion

I missed a day of class, and on that day it was decided that we would scrap our Human Resources project we had been working on with the writers and make our own project. I wasn’t there for the decision making process, but I am…

Cinematography

Apocalypse Now (1979) won the “Best Cinematography” award was filmed by Vittorio Storaro. On the matter of teaching students what’s important, he presses the importance of the philosophy of light, the meaning of colour. He uses a key light when framing a subject, but ignores the fill…

Analysis of a still from Proof (1991)

Here I am going discuss a still taken from the Australian film Proof (1991), describing how I think the mis-en-scene and cinematography create meaning. I was researching a lot of great and cinematically acclaimed films, but I found the process kinda overwhelming, so I thought,…

Reflections on Human Resources teaser

What I like about the piece:  I think the overall edit is really good. Thanks Joan, Jen, Kelly and Matilda. The edit is well composed, and relatively seamless. The added sound effects add a lot to the piece. I enjoyed the part where Liz is…

Web Series Watch

  Web Series Watch: A  blog where I discover, describe and critique web series Conditions: free to stream via legal means, and created for the web, but not under the guise of streaming sights such as Netflix or Stan. Rostered On: the pilot.  I found…