pitch review
Revealing our pitch to Shweta and James was quite nerve racking. I created a video to pitch my film idea of From Bean To Bin. Although at the time of creating, I contemplated titling my film 2,700,000, I’ve since decided to change that name. I explored the reasoning behind my film and the audience I […]
week 8 – story, character, lists, poems
“A story is the narrative, or telling, of an event or a series of events, crafted in a way to interest the audience members, whether they are readers, listeners or viewers” (Sheila Curran Bernard 2011, 15) After contemplating the idea of story, I wondered how to incorporate a story line into my film. The title […]
week 7 – materiality
Broderick Fox suggested that the idea of documentaries is they all ‘look and sound the same’. The idea that documentaries all all informative and to some ‘boring’. Through this studio, I have come to the realisation that documentaries have different styles and film techniques involved to create their own originality. Week 7 introduced us to […]
Recap
From week 1 to week 6 we were inundated with incredible techniques that would assist our film structure. Techniques I took a particular liking to were archival footage, taking a position and poetic and contemplative. These techniques really opened up my eyes to the logistics of documentary creating. Through discovering new techniques and experimenting by […]
minuscule | UNRAVELLING THE REEL WEEK 6
Week six. I really really enjoyed the learnings of this week. Although finding archival footage is extremely challenging, I find it is a great contributor to film. I find it important to be inspired and find ways to creatively use archive footage that others have created. The concept of using found footage, whether it be […]
the dancing years | UNRAVELLING THE REEL WEEK 5
For week five, we focused upon interviews. The idea that there is ‘no formal element’ and ‘no particular aesthetic’ (Juhasz, Lebow 2015) when creating an interview makes it an experiment within itself. To create a storyline through someone else and discover an experience. Through discussion we thought about what made a good interview? To answer […]
empty spaces | UNRAVELLING THE REEL WEEK 4
Week 4 invited us to learn about two different approaches to documentary. Poetic and Contemplative. Unlike your common documentary with emphasised factual information and extensive language, these approaches open up for a more ambiguous perspective for the audience. Contemplative, although it doesn’t have a clear narrative, it allows the audience to form their own opinion […]
don’t believe everything you read | UNRAVELLING THE REEL WEEK 3
if the youtube link fails: google drive link here It’s 2020. We’ve just been locked down for a further 6 weeks due to a global pandemic that has been attacking the world since March. With such big life changing events, such as Covid-19, has landed news outlets as prime suspects in taking part of contributing […]