Reflection 3
Before this week’s class me and my group had a meeting to show what we done now and what we can do better, and plan the filming and editing time of mini trailers. We exchanged our opinions and decided to finish some of mini trailers before next weekend. To compare with last week, we have a big progress in filming and the script.
The guest lecture of Mia Falstein-Rush let me get know film festival deeper and made me have more thoughts about film culture, she mentioned film festivals is a catalyst to changing the landscape on and off the screens, and adds value beyond other types of film screenings to meet a demand not otherwise fulfilled. Those viewpoints made me realize how superficial I know about film festival culture. However, these also made me feel excited about what we doing now ( a film festival!).
At the weekend, we are going to filming the mini trailers as Chinese trailer group, we also join the film submission group to watch the Chinese films and may give them some our opinion when they screen out final films. Those works are make me feel involved and exciting.
For films submission viewing, if I want to give some help to them, I think I have to focus on the purpose of our film festival but not random, and what I learn from the reading is, focus on the meaning of the film, not the film. ‘The film is a piece of art that reveals its meaning in the context into which it is placed. If your festival is comprised only of non-confrontational, glossy films, it will be boring and less thought provoking than a varied selection that surprises and disturbs the audience with unexpected types of films.’ (Bartosova, Kulhankova & Rausova 2015, pg 27)
Reference:
Kateřina Bartošová, Hana Kulhánková & Zuzana Raušová, “Knowing Yourself and Your Audience: Programming a Human Rights Film Festival (Links to an external site.)” in Setting Up a Human Rights Film Festival, vol. 2, Human Rights Film Network, Prague, 2015, pp. 27-46.