Day: March 26, 2015

TRANSITIONS

March 26, 2015 — Leave a comment

1. Cuts (straight/contrast/graphic matching/ jump cut)

 

2. Disolve (Fade down one shot & Fade up another shot)

 

3. Fade up from black / Fade to black / Flash frame of white

 

4. Wipes

 

After the messages of this weeks Lectorial managed to cement themselves into my patterns of thinking for the week, I had come in to todays Tutorial with an intrigued mind. Having had just been explained about the power of the edit and the connotations that can be drawn from excluding certain shots / aspects of a production, I had one compelling thought that was driving my intrigue.

 

There is a common theory that ‘everything is a remix’, that is, there is no original idea anymore, rather just different variations of the same theme. This theory may explain why most audiences are able to pick up / explain the implied messages between shots. Having seen the same ideas presented to them in differing variations, audiences have become conditioned to these themes and therefore know what is about to come.

 

This concept wasn’t addressed during the Tutorial and therefore I feel that I will have to investigate further in my own learner directed hours. Food for thought.

 

– donandsherri

b(ack)-log

March 26, 2015 — Leave a comment

26-03-15  10:52am

 

This is the time I find myself sitting in the state library, an eerily quite place for the time of day, writing this blog thinking – man, when did I all of a sudden find find myself with this gargantuan amount of work due in?

 

Having spent the previous week travelling both directions from Torquay to Melbourne to accommodate both study and familial duties, time seemed to have dissipated in front of me and left me a week behind.

 

This inconvenience has disrupted as I have burnt the Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil) and managed to find myself now, only 2 readings, an assessment plan, and gathering data for my Self Portrait behind. Having had little rest in the last 96 hours, I have been able to enter an alternate state of delirium and discovered that all of the classes held this week have been highly informative and engaging.

 

Although I would like to avoid this current situation I find myself in, in the future – I have come to find that I am able to catch up and remain active with all material that is being given to us. A somewhat oddly pleasant thought.

 

– donandsherri