Scene In Cinema: Week #2 Reflection/ Epiphany

I was told to read more books this week to further my studies for the Short story writing course. I’m rather apathetic when it comes to reading anything over 201 pages (go figure). However, this week after the constant focus on scenes in films rather than its entirety, I’ve come to realization that my inspirations for all my work, wheather I’m writing or “making” a short film (actively participating in at least one area of all stages of filmmaking from Pre, on and post-production, maintaining creative control), I’m only inspired by visuals. Anything I can see. Mostly films, television, paintings, absurd situations I observe or somehow find myself to be involved in life. Things like that. I’ve come to this realization after watching a few of my favorite films before beginning to write my analysis on camera coverage for the Found scene exercise. Even a Salvador Dali painting, which will always rapidly imbed itself in my mind whenever I see one, will instantly make more sense to me, rather than anything Hemingway or some other alcoholic ever wrote. I only believe what I see.

 

 

Class Reflection:

I thoroughly enjoyed our second Friday class for Media 5. After getting into groups again to conduct our practical exercise, I began to see the progressive structure of the course. As each time we are assigned to complete these similar scene blocking exercises, we have been asked to do something additional. From our first Wednesday Class, being given a script and told to only capture the scene without recording it on our camera, we progressed our second Wednesday class, to do the same exercise under the same conditions, only this time to hit the record button, to capture our rehearsed scene in strict order without editing, thus practicing the in-camera editing technique. On this occasion however, were asked to do the same thing, except to actually have a post-production stage to edit the shots we had filmed. Effectively before we left the classroom to begin filming, my group members and I all marked up the scene synopsis we were given and deliberated how we all envisioned the camera coverage should be set up. While “on-production”, our group was effectively able to rotate all production roles around. And when I say all, I mean ALL roles. Including acting, which I have no idea how it will look, once we have all individually edited our versions of the shots into one scene. Additionally, I really enjoyed having the chance to be placed in a group with people who I had never worked with, as I believe we collaborated well in executing this assigned task. I look forward to see how all the shots look once I begin editing the clips together.