I Missed out on presenting my 3 minute proposal on Friday. I haven’t done it yet.

But If I were to do it again, i would say:

As Robin Mentioned in a previous class, A scene Does not require narrative. It stands alone and for itself. As a practitioner and a student of film studies, I think I generalize too much when it comes to enjoying a visual experience. I’ve been stuck on understanding things as a whole rather than individually, and because of that I miss out on a lot of the detail.
And that’s what I learn in this class. It is purely about specifications. Lighting, distance between subject and camera, framing, cuts; the whole lot.

There have been several times where I imagine my life being filmed, almost like the Truman show. And when I’m just staring into nothingness, I imagine how I look sitting down, face scrunched. Deep in thought.
These zone out sessions I have also spring up in significant moments of my life, and I think of how amazing it would be if I could record moments of life as it unfolds before my eyes. To steal a photo from time and put it in my pocket forever, to give longevity to a memory that has now passed. That’s why you have two cameras on your phone, go pros, also on laptop screens (that probably looks at you whilst you browse 9gag. But that’s a topic for another day).

But I often brush off these thoughts and am bombarded with other things like blog posts. The most recent example was when I was back home and I just returned from travelling and my grand father was in critical condition in the cancer unit.

So in a way I want to capture things as one would in life. Very swift and unassumingly changing the pace at every corner, never stopping but never moving when things are slow.

I remember last year, we watched and analyzed ‘Chungking express’ and ‘femme une femme’. They both have similar attributes in a sense that they don’t talk of life because they know it; they just present life as art and therefore questioning reality.
Although the idea of making a colorful and lively scene tempts me, how real is it? What does it speak about my world? About the world WE live in?

I suppose it’s a theme I wish to explore, REAL cinema; that is art through camera VS real life caught on camera.
So my pursuit is not necessarily perfection but more about capturing or recreating something close to the truth.