6 April, 2017

Media workshop – 6

At the beginning of this week’s workshop, Mr. Brian showed us two examples of interview videos we did in Week 5. Then, we talked about ‘film composition’ through a short excerpt from Lee R. Bobker’s Elements of Film (1974). The short excerpt illustrates the principle of film composition we are working with here briefly. Moreover, Mr. Brian gave us two examples to help us understand film composition more clearly. The first example is ‘White Knuckles’, which is a fixed frame; another one is the episode of the movie called ‘Children of Men’.

The crucial point of this workshop is ‘a single shot’, so the rest of time we needed to focus on the exercise about it. Unlike last week we are experimentingwith the mobility of the camera and the expressive potential of the single shot. The theme is ‘misunderstanding’, we required to think about the storyboard, location, staging and a floorplan.

The story we came up with is a couple (but they are lesbians) are having chat with each other in the cafe, the girl thought her girlfriend will propose, but… here are the draft of our group’s storyboard and the finished video. Let’s see what is going on…