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IM1 – Lecture Six

Notes taken from this weeks lecture: Q1. What is the point in redefining narrative as anything more than ‘cause and effect’? There’s so many more ‘parts’ than just cause and effect If we define narrative as cause and effects we’re missing a lot of other things that’s going on Narrative implies the idea that someone has…

Week 5 Reflection / Problems

So a little bit of reflecting and problem solving/questioning this week. In class we’ve been using footage provided to us to construct a mini K-film. I’m having no trouble putting the film together on Korsakow, however when I open it in my browser the film remains black, as if it’s unable to load. I’ve spoken…

IM1 – Another Family Member

GRANMDADINNERFINAL from Jack Lucas on Vimeo.

IM1 – An object from an animals POV

Sequence 01 2 from Rebecca Skilton on Vimeo.

IM1 – Light from a plants’ POV

Sequence 01 from Rebecca Skilton on Vimeo.

IM Reading week 6

This weeks reading was all about the Essay Film. The article was “The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments” written by Laura Rascaroli. While I read the whole document, and don’t get me wrong it was pretty interesting, I found the most straightforward concept of the Essay Film was when Rascaroli quoted Nora Alter. I…

Screen Shots for IM Film essay

all screen shots taken from: http://vogmae.net.au/classworks/media/2012/kfilms/themarket/#/?snu=371

IM1 Film Essay

For this film essay, I have chosen to speak about the Korsakow film; “The Market” (2012), created by Xiaodi Fiona Liu, Danni He, Puteri Noor Amirah, and Sara Roberston. (Found at: http://vogmae.net.au/classworks/media/2012/kfilms/themarket/ ) As the name suggests, this film is an exploration of a market, investigating the different elements making up what a city market…

Blog-Stalk week #5.

So my blog-stalk this week didn’t actually involve too much stalking, but rather just general conversation about our class. I was working with Kylie and Anita, when we started speaking of our sketch tasks, and how we presented this weeks six second clips. After throwing some ideas around upcoming tasks, we took a look at…

IM Lecture week 5

Some notes that I took from this weeks symposium. Bordwell and Thompson state that after watching Rail Road Turnbridge a person “cannot see bridges in the same way” thus experimental films are not just art for arts sake. Can/are Korsakow projects art for arts sake, or can they effect the way people…