What key learning did you do in this week’s workshop? Reflect and describe the main conceptual elements of this studio that you learnt. Reflect and describe the main media making elements you experienced and completed. 

Throughout this week in class, we discussed different auteurs and film director’s personal styles, and how that contributes to their visual work. For example, Alfred Hitchcock’s meticulous use of framing, or Kubrick’s use of colour in his films. I found these references inspiring to my own developing ideas for the upcoming assessment. In particular, I was interested in exploring colour/cinematography. As a visual artist, I’ve always been heavily fascinated by colours, hues, saturation and values, and how these communicate ideas to an audience visually. My artistic background I feel is a strength in this regard, as it can translate quite readily to film. I find tonality is intrinsic to colour theory, and I take great interest in how directors utilize it.

In my own film, I’d like to at least note and basically manipulate colour using Lumetri Scope in Premiere Pro, even if the editing isn’t largely noticeable or especially important. At the moment, I’m currently thinking of creating a psychological horror film, so I doubt much vibrant colour exploration such as in a Wes Anderson film will be present, but a more grayscale or muted colour scheme may be used.

We also learnt about how to use Sony Fx3 cameras. I’d previously used these cameras before in previous seminars, however I found it valuable to quickly relearn the ropes as I had forgotten a lot of information on how to use them. I’m not sure if I’ll use these cameras for my assessment, as they’re quite difficult to transport to and from the city as I live an hour away, but I haven’t yet decided.