We had three guest speakers this week for our lecture; Anne Lennox (talking about copyrighting), Kyla Brettle (lecturer at RMIT and documentary maker) and Paul Ritchard (lecturer at RMIT and filmmaker). In particular I was interested in what Paul had to say. He went through basic etiquette to have during filmmaking and some great tips for when you get your crew together, etc. In particular he mentioned a common tragedy which happens during filmmaking called serendipity. Serendipity is when something unfortunate occurs, like an actor can no longer be in your film or a location is now unavailable which means you may have had to rewrite your film or a part of it. However, even though these obstacles would normally work to your disadvantage, they can often turn out to work in your favour leaving you with a better film in the end. One of Paul’s great examples of this was a past student’s film ‘Clown Train’. Here is it:

(video source: https://youtu.be/6dX9bfCbJdw)