Schindler’s List – Just wow

Well, this is a film that I’ve been meaning to watch for a long long time. It’s one of those films that, whenever I couldn’t decide what movie to watch, would come up near the top on any ‘best movies list’ that I happened to…

Assignment 3: The links

Deconstruction and analysis post Gnarly in Pink – Deconstruction and Analysis 2. Pitch film Pitch film – Skaterz 3. Panel feedback blog post We Vote….. Women! – Panel Feedback 4. Discussing another groups pitch Suttons – a pitch analysis

Gnarly in Pink – Deconstruction and Analysis

Gnarly in Pink is a short documentary I found that explores the ‘Pink Helmet Posse’, which consist of three 6 year old girls who absolutely love skateboarding. I watched it and was immediately drawn in by the happy and creative display of these girls in…

Riverdale – Carrie the musical

Before today I didn’t know much about Stephen King. Sure I’ve heard the name associated with The Shining and IT and from that I just assumed that he wrote horror fiction, as I am not a fan of horror I assume this is why I’ve…

Suttons – a pitch analysis

I thought that the presentation on Suttons was intriguing, the idea was interesting and there were obvious connections that the group had that would enable them to access more than the average person might, mainly because they are connected to the area as they live…

We Vote….. Women! – Panel Feedback

After a bit of a rushed presentation we received some feedback from our talented and successful panel of experts in a documentary/film type field. The main thing the panel passed onto us was that we should, rather than focusing on skateboarding culture altogether in Melbourne,…

How to Interview

These are the notes I took from this week’s class about how to interview. I was going to edit them up and make them all neat and pretty for the blog but then I decided that I’d rather show how my thinking process of writing…

The Whale

  So it took me 6 weeks but I finally got onto DocPlay today and decided to watch the first documentary that my eye was drawn to. After falling in love with Blackfish so many years ago I went straight to the documentary about a…