Slowly but surely, things are moving progressively in class. After the first prompt videos we gave to the writers, they responded with 5 characters, all of which have varying degrees of uniqueness to them but sharing an ‘intern’ or office occupation. My group and I had a really great discussion in regards to responding to […]
Read more "We’re All In This Together"Since this studio is about making a web series, then I think it’s only right that I talk about what a web series is. So here’s my spiel on what a web series is to me and other things that may or may not be related to the topic. When I hear those words, my […]
Read more "Who, What, Web"3 prompts to make 3 prompt videos equals a viewing party with commentary after the screening. We basically started the lesson with watching the 3 prompt videos – action, dialogue and location – and discussed our thoughts on each. Without going into too much detail on each video, let’s just say that we hope they […]
Read more "A, B, C, D…SLR?"A new week calls for a new beginning. And for us, that’s finally knowing what exactly it is we’re going to do from here on out and actually starting something. It’s been decided that the Screenwriters will work together on a single serial project and we should have a full script from them (hopefully) by […]
Read more "So Where Are We Going?"It’s week two and we’ve been split in two. Literally. The Media and Screenwriting students have been separated, or at least, every now and then we will be. So for our first lesson as a Media collective, we also separated into two groups to work on the same exercise. That is, adapting a script that […]
Read more "It Takes Two"First week back and we’re straight into business. Quite literally, actually. This first two classes of this studio were screenwriting workshops with Australian Film & TV Director/Screenwriter, Ana Kokkinos. This is was definitely an eye opener for me and I’m so glad that it happened so early on in the semester because what she shared […]
Read more "It’s Not Me, It’s You"It’s been a while since I’ve used this blog so here’s my attempt at writing a decent blog post after several months. New semester, new studio. And in this case, I’m in This Is Serial which, in collaboration with Screenwriting students, is all about web series and (hopefully) being able to create one by the […]
Read more "Back At It With The Blog Posts"And considering the name of this studio, it has been true. Translating Observation has really been about translating our observations, transforming the things that we see and feel and experience in real life into short films. This studio was actually my first preference and it was the studio description that really got me interested. I […]
Read more "Media Two, It’s Been True"And have good time. The second half of this semester has been a pretty intense few weeks of group work. After everyone pitched their film ideas and got into groups, things really got underway with pre-production of our films considering the amount of time we had to complete them. There really wasn’t a lot of […]
Read more "Let’s All Collaborate"And now, we conclude. This week was our last week of classes, and also our last full week of working on our group film. Our primary focus now was on solely editing, but to be more specific, this meant adjusting the colours, sound and refining shots. We made sure that all the shots we needed […]
Read more "Now We’re Done"