Tag: film

B is for Bring the Noise

So we pretty much decided on a sound-related media artefact for this group project.  A podcast/broadcast piece that essentially markets the marketing of film festivals hitting Melbourne in the month of May.
We have our sass-filled scripts and basic interview questions ready to go.  We plan on interviewing a myriad of people of all ages on their opinions and views on film festivals – in fact I’m calling my grandma tonight and I am going to hard out interrogate her on the subject.  Even though she’s probably never been to one in her whole life but that’s besides the point.  Rounded research people!

Georgina’s festival focus is the St. Kilda Film Festival, Chrys’s festival is the Human Rights Film Festival and mine is the Audi German Film Festival.  That’s one indie, one message driven and one rather large, culture-fuelled festival.  A good mix, I feel.  Next is starting to record and throw together some kind of first draft.  As Mario would say:  “Here’s we GOO!”

First Camera Practice

After presenting our self portraits to the class (daunting), week 5’s media practorial had us having a go at filming with the Sony MC50 video camera.  We were sent out onto the campus to create one 3 shot sequence and one single shot sequence with the stimulus; meeting someone/handshake.
We decided to take a bit of a shifty approach to the whole ‘handshake’ idea.
So here it is