Documentaries are generally perceived as being an accurate depiction of real life, or as being ‘truth’. However, like in film, documentaries are often still highly constructed in the way they are filmed and edited. For example, even though in the… Continue Reading
MEETING #3 MINUTES Tuesday 12th May 12.30 Present: Haylee, Elle, Andrew Updated Andrew on what happened last week Reviewed collated bibliographies Researched case study further (Dallas Buyers Club piracy) Decided to go in the ‘mini documentary’ format Came up with… Continue Reading
This weeks reading covers style as a formal system. Films will generally have a certain ‘style’ to them, defined by the various techniques used and the patterns they form. Filmmakers also tend to use similar stylistic techniques over many of… Continue Reading
11.30am Thursday 7th May Present: Haylee and Elle – Discussed how we went with the annotated bibliographies and what research direction we both went in – Found that we both looked into piracy and regulation – Decided we would like… Continue Reading
In class today we started off by getting into our groups and roughly brainstorming ideas for our project. Elle, Andrew and I started off by thinking off all of the different directions we could go in from the initial concept… Continue Reading
After viewing everyone’s projects in the tutorial on Thursday we were put into groups and given the next assignment: Project Brief Four. I was put into a group with Elle and we were given the topic ‘Institutions’. At first I… Continue Reading
For this Project Brief I decided to have my good friend, Avatar as the subject. He calls himself a ‘futurologist’ and is one of the most interesting people I know, so I thought I would be able to create something… Continue Reading
I watched a movie the other night called ‘Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion’. It’s a Japanese movie made in 1972 and was incredibly violent and somewhat ridiculously over the top at times. The whole time I was watching it I was… Continue Reading