So here’s some plans that I made during the pre-prodction period of the shooting. I’m going to be interviewing a friend of mine from high school – Austina. To start off with the questions, I decided to think about her personalities and her hobbies and all that stuff that resembles her. We were very close in high school and still…
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Week 5 Initiative – Tough Times w/ RMITV (2/3)
For the second time that I’ve worked with the crew, I was assigned to be the switcher first and then the director. My tutor on switching , Jenny, wasn’t here this time as she’s got an essay to finish so I was completely on my own. It definitely felt a bit strange at the beginning without someone telling me what…
Week 6 Lecture – Notes & Reflection
Mr. Paul Richard on: How to be a Media Operator or How to be cool and Not a tool COMMUNICATION Location Release Insurance & Legals Location (get there 1.5 hrs before setting up) Performance Release (sent beforehand and signed after the interview) Safety Nightmare (a combo of all the above probs) Serendipity Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers somethings fortunate,…
Week 5 Lecture – Notes
The guest lecturer Ms. Louise Turley from ABC gave us a short intro on how to do interviews. THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW THE WHO Do they have something to say? Are they credible? Can they deliver ‘on camera’? Are they good ‘talent’ Who is my audience? WHAT What are you going to ask them? Research – reading, speaking, observing…
Film Form Studio
We started with a sequence from ‘Luck’ starring Dustin Hoffman. ‘hollywood law- cannot write about what you cant see in the screen’ said the lecturer Paul. Today the class activity was to do tracking shots. So a group of 3rd year students kindly took me into their group and showed me how a studio class works. We started outside the…
Week 2 Initiative – Thoughts on ‘Split’
I recently watched a film called ‘Split’ that was very impressive. ‘Split’ is a thriller film starring James Mcavoy, who is one of my favorite actors of all time. His performance is ‘X-men’ series and the Scottish film ‘Filth’ was absolutely extraordinary. In the film ‘Split’, James plays a man who is diagnosed with Dissociative Identities Disorder, meaning that there…
Week 2 Reading – ‘Introduction’
In this week’s reading, David Gauntlett introduced us to the concept of what the media is like now and how we should deal with the rapidly changing and evolving situation in media. ‘For me, media studies today consists of a diminished blob of the old themes, but with two new peaks of exciting and vital activity on either side. One…
Week 3 Reading – ‘Blood in the Gutter’
In this comics created by Scott McCloud, a concept of ‘Closure’ is established to the viewers. Closure is how the brain works to connect one scene to another or one panel to another. McCloud concluded that there are several types of panel-to-panel transitions that would appear in comics: Moment-to-Moment Action-to-Action Subject-to-Subject Scene-to-Scene Aspect-to-Aspect Non-sequitur It is quite hard for me…
Week 3 Initiative – Tough Times w/ RMITV (1/3)
So I applied for a couple of projects going on in RMITV and I got accepted into a talk show called ‘Tough Times Don’t Last’ with Michael Kuzilny, who is a crime lawyer that sits down weekly with guests that have been through a difficult time in their lives. The purpose of the show is to share experiences and inspire…
Project Brief 2 – Final Video & Reflection & Further Improvement
PB2 has been the most complicated creating process I have experienced my whole life. It was not the editing, filming or creating soundtrack that was hard, but rather the process of putting them all together and work as one. It went wrong with so many things along the process but eventually they were fixed after millions of thoughts. I started…