Interview with a Dancer

Yesterday I interviewed my friend, Piri, who is studying to become a dancer for Project Brief 3. I knew she would be a good person to interview as she is fairly confident and very passionate about what she does, but I was a little taken…

Searching the Archives

Project Brief 3 requires at least 30% of our final products to be found footage under Creative Commons license. This means I’ve had to spend a fair amount of time searching the internet for clips that I might be able to use for my project,…

La Famille Bélier

Yesterday’s lectorial and the discussion about the experiences of those who are unable to hear made me think back to a film I watched before I started the course. La Famille Bélier is a french film about a family, all of whom are deaf expect for the…

Offbeat

This afternoon I had my very first experience of live broadcast television. Somehow it was both incredibly stressful and a ton of fun at the same time. I signed up for RMITV to gain practical experience and meet other people interested in media. Offbeat were…

Cinemas Not Dead

This week many of my classes have looked at how the nature of the media industry has changed, and is continuously changing. This idea was also reflected in this week’s film for Cinema Studies Holy Motors, which while an incredibly perplexing film, many scholars believe to…