In this blog post I’ll be analyzing a scene from The Lobster (2015), directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Collin Farrel, Ben Wishaw, Rachel, Weisz and Léa Seydoux. In a dystopian future, or strange alternative present, adults who are single, either through failure to find a partner or bereavement, must check into a hotel with other singles and find a genuinely…
Author: Aria Liang
Development of Ideas
A screen shot from Her, I thought it’s beautiful and has a feeling of isolation. A screen shot from Cloud Atlas, I cannot remember what the plot is about during this bit, but it’s a very sad part where all the A.I. girls find out that the nutrition fluids they drink to maintain their life is actually made of broken…
Location Scouting for Our Film
On the Sunday of week 7, we decided to meet outside class and scout for locations in the CBD area. I mainly walked around the Southern Cross, Southbank and Docklands area where there were a lot of skyscrapers and modern architecture. The video contains two parts, with each of them representing a type of look that I want to explore…
Week 7 Exercise
In this week’s studio, my crew and I explored different types of shots and lighting. Basically we just carried the camera and the tripod and walked around in NAS, taking turns to film and act. Our ideas on the film just started to come together, so we talked a lot about how we wanted our film to look like…
Week 5 Exercise
In week 5’s studio, we started to go into lighting design. We were tasked with finding places that have dappled, diffused or reflected lighting to film at according to given scripts. I chose to film at the café in building 10. The lighting there was high-key and warm and the location had glasses reflecting the lights on both sides of…
Scene Analysis
In this blog post I will be analyzing a scene from Birdman, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The scene is from 1:25:20 when Riggan walks out of the bar after his quarrel with the famous play critic Tabitha Dickinson, to 1:27:50 when he looks up to the night sky. I will be mainly focusing on sound, lighting, performance…
30s sequence
This is the week 1’s 30 second sequence exercise but I did not have the time to put them together into a piece at that time. I tried to make this video a VEVO music video looking video but I now consider it an epic fail. I never knew making a music video was this hard, thanks to the synchronization…
Week 4 Exercise
Here’s the video: For week 4’s exercise, everyone in our group agreed on using Zane’s script as it was hilarious. Nikki and Margot volunteered to be the actors, Adrian was the camera man, Rosie was the first AD, Ryan was the director and I was on sound. Doing sound was probably the most exhausting thing I’ve ever tried as the…
Week 11 Reading
In this week’s reading, Tim Wu explains what attention merchants are. Attention merchants are quite relatively new. As an industry, they trade people’s attention to business and advertisement people to make revenue out of it. Take google as an example, they would document what websites you go to and what interests you have so they would promote those relevant business…
Week 11 Workshop
In this week’s workshop, we talked about the reading of Tim Wu’s ‘Introduction’ and ‘Epilogue’. We briefly discussed about how people are easily distracted in today’s time because people’s attention seems to have become the the most valuable thing and what media makers are competing for. Moving on to the next bit, we’re assigned to produce a 2-3 mins audio…