Upon learning that my assigned artist was the incredibly accomplished Megan Evans, I was ecstatic. Her blog and website confirmed just how extraordinary she is. Immediately I found her art to be thought provoking and visually engaging. I was also… Continue Reading →

With the second week of our studio Capturing Creativity wrapped up, I’m eager to see what the rest of the semester holds. I was incredibly excited to learn that we would be collaborating with emerging artists on a short documentary…. Continue Reading →

For my individual project this semester I decided to study the monologue. After watching another student’s individual experiment in which they shot a monologue, my mind drifted back to Kevin Spacey’s performance in House of Cards. These monologues are incredibly… Continue Reading →

From shooting various monologues I’ve learnt a great deal about coverage and what works and what doesn’t in editing. After editing my final exercise, there are of course things I wish I could change. However there are also parts that… Continue Reading →

The shooting of my final exercise took roughly an hour to complete as I had chosen some quite ambitious things to achieve.I was working with dogs which were well behaved but were still animals that struggled to keep still. To… Continue Reading →

For my final exercise I have decided rather than to write my own monologue, I’ll rework one. I particularly liked a rage filled monologue from Scrubs. Upon my initial viewing of the scene I thought it was quite serious but… Continue Reading →

For my reshoot of the House of Cards monologue, I edited two slightly different versions. In the first I intercut the master shot with a profile of my subject looking up and in the second I only included the master… Continue Reading →

For this reshoot my aim was to simplify the scene to a point where it could be done in one shot. Therefore I had to make some adjustments to achieve this. I changed locations to a different bathroom as it… Continue Reading →

As I suspected I’m not overly happy with this scene and there are some other problems that I didn’t notice during shooting. However, I’m not as displeased with it as I had originally anticipated. One major problem is that the… Continue Reading →

For my scene recreation from House of Cards, I had planned to shoot on the weekend with some people that I thought would suit the roles well. However due to busy schedules these plans fell through and I was forced… Continue Reading →