Originally my story was to take place in a cinema. However, to actually gain access to a cinema to film in may not be a realistic hope. So, as I see it, I have two options: use movie magic to make somewhere look like a cinema, or change settings. I feel like the latter may … [Read more…]
For the editing of my groups two ‘expert acts’ I took two slightly different approaches. For the first activity, making a paper plane, I essentially tried to provide adequate coverage of the process, choosing the most appropriate angle for the different stages. Firstly, the plane maker is introduced through a wide shot, showing them sitting … [Read more…]
After two hours of sitting in darkness, the movie was over. The drama was over. Or so he thought. It was time to leave. He stood up slowly and headed toward the exit, the music accompanying the credits providing a nice background. In his left hand was a glass bottle, which had been empty since … [Read more…]
After the exercise in which we were told to simply shoot some kind of action, preferably mundane, for 50 seconds, the idea of turning something that could be considered boring into something visually interesting on camera stood out to me. A particular action that I feel can be visually uninteresting, especially when filmed in an … [Read more…]
Around two years ago now, I chose a Media degree, rather than a Film and TV degree – what I was ultimately interested in – essentially because I thought a broader knowledge would be useful for me. Since then, there’s been a slight sense (not a complete sense) of regret for this decision. One of … [Read more…]
For the first class of Film 3, the main exercise involved recording a 50 second shot of a certain place, while essentially introducing ourselves to the unfamiliar cameras. Initially, my group planned to shoot two people playing basketball just outside of Building 9, recognising it as some of the more interesting action occurring in Bowen … [Read more…]
For project one, my case study was LJ Frezza’s video, titled Nothing, which involved every shot of ‘nothing’ (buildings, empty rooms etc.) from the television series, Seinfeld, being compiled into one 6 minute supercut. In its editing of entirely archival footage, the experimental video gave an interesting commentary on the 90s TV show, as well … [Read more…]
Final Probe: Our group plans to explore how review-parody works as a genre through parodying the kind of content you might find on online video review channels (on platforms such as YouTube) as well as on online sketch-comedy channels, since this is the broader genre our hybrid form will be drawing from (our new genre … [Read more…]
In Monday’s studio, we were able to explore in depth what it is we plan to do for project four, with Seth’s feedback informing our discussion. We will be making a YouTube channel, Seth suggested that if the YouTube channel is the focus, then we only really have to create the final works. So the idea … [Read more…]
For project four, we are thinking we could perhaps establish a YouTube channel (for example) as a prototype, which would be focussed around something such as an online video review series. This would allow us to be both experimental and broaden the scope of the task. It would answer our probe by using parody, as … [Read more…]