This semester, I have found The Scene in Cinema to be an engaging and eye-opening studio to be a part of. Although I had studied camera coverage and decoupage in media in high school, I had never looked at this study in so much depth before. Therefore, this studio was a really great learning experience for me personally, and I…
MARIE-ELISE McCALLUM
I don’t even know where to begin with summarising this studio because I have learnt so much. All of the skills I have developed throughout this semester have been invaluable and will assist me greatly in future projects. From the very first class we were learning how to use the Sony ex3 cameras and this kind of practical work never…
MATTHEW SIMMONDS
In this studio we learned how to film things, which is more or less what I came to RMIT to do. We thought in depth about how to film each shot, how each shot relates to each other, and how we can approach a whole scene. We had no polished end product in sight, which was incredibly liberating – we…
NATALIE STEWART
All too quickly my second semester of university, and my first ever studio, have come to an end. I really was not expecting such an amazing experience from my first studio class, but my expectations have been happily exceeded, and I’m genuinely sad that it’s now over. Firstly, I have never learned as much about the subject of media as…
ROBERT PFEIFFER
The most important lesson from this studio is that you cannot definitively define coverage in a simple sentence. After learning from Robin Plunkett, the studio leader, I have found that my definition of coverage is constantly evolving and shifting and will continue to do so. But to week after week film short scripts learning new techniques relating to how to…
SOPHIA PETROPOULOS
When you’re reading this post, chin resting on your hand, there are hundreds of viewpoints to capture you from. When we watch a film or television show, we forget that there has been a lot of thought into every little snippet of every little scene. We might notice a dramatic close-up of someone crying or a master shot of a…