This week’s update brought to you by Jasmijn van Houten & Cody Nelson.
What a week it’s been!
We hope everyone finished up their holidays safely and comfortably, but the time has come where we once again put sanity and well-being aside in our wondrous pursuit of financial stability knowledge.
Bell & Howell Standard 8mm projector
Opening our week with ANZAC day may have come in the way of other classes, and rightly so (Lest we forget), but fret not, Dan, we return perfectly in time for you to grace our presence. Although we do thank you for not assigning and readings for this week, it’s made this reflection a heck of a lot easier, so cheers. Our Wednesday class was a well-needed one to say the least. Presenting our work thus far to Brian Morris and Andrea Rassell was invaluable, allowing us to take on a new perspective on our works and shape what is yet to come in our current Project Brief, as well as (if we hopefully remember) influencing future works too. It’s always good to get feedback and food for thought, especially with Project Brief 3’s due date looming over us.
Moving onto Thursday’s class – we were given quite a peculiar and eye-opening class, in that we were given the challenge of creating a Super 8 film without a Super 8 camera, or Super 8 film for that matter. The cameras we used were ‘sabotaged’ in the classic techie style (with gaffer tape) and we were limited to 10 shots, which had to be edited in camera. We were shown some of Paul Richard and Dan’s low-key hilarious film school antics as inspiration, and thus sabotaged cameras in hand and equipped with a keyword for inspiration we were off to our task of awakening our inner Steven Spielberg.
ANTICS
This exercise, besides being a fantastic source for amusement, like short film exercises always are, gave great insight to the meticulous design and execution required in the creation of Super 8 films. Seeing what all the groups came up with in next week’s screening will no doubt be super cool.
All in all, it was another stellar week with the Old’s Cool krew.
