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This week I’ve done several shooting exercises of different cinematic techniques since I was inspired after I watched a video on Youtube called Top 20 Amazing Cinematic Techniques. There are three parts of it, here are the links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3EnnBDgMww, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5OhhfnyfQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdJhQVj_rm4&t=7s…. Continue Reading →

On week 3 we mainly focused on the editing of the shots we did on week 2. I have used premiere before, but I have never been taught to organize the footage before going into edit. In the future we… Continue Reading →

Lately I watched an attractive film called “contracted”. It’s a story telling a girl suffering in the transition of turning to a zombie, which is unique for me as the way of shooting is totally fresh for zombie type. It… Continue Reading →

Reflect on the findings from class exercises. There should be be some moment of discovery, an epiphany – If you didn’t have one that was naturally occurring, then you haven’t reflected enough. (minimum 300 words) I really like the class… Continue Reading →

Write about what you want from this course? What you think this course is? Outline your goals and desires. Consider the Studio Prompt, Brief and Aims – as above. (minimum 300 words)   As Paul said that filmmaking is not… Continue Reading →

Reflective Portfolio 5 posts WEEK#3 Lectorial This post is about my reflection on week 3’s lectorial. There were 3 guests for that lectorial, Anne Lennox, Kyla Brettle, and Paul Ritchard. It’s a lecture about copyright, exploring the unknown, and production… Continue Reading →

This week’s Lectorial focused on remix and glitch, which is quite interesting. The lecturer is Daniel Binns. At the very beginning of the lectorial, Dan played a piece of music and asked us to listen carefully. Because I’m not familiar… Continue Reading →

There are two main parts for today’s workshop: presenting project brief 2 and filming with borrowed equipment.   In the first half of our class, we watched everyone’s self-portrait. We gave brief explanation of our own video and received feedback… Continue Reading →

There are three main part of this week’s lectorial: Introduction to project brief 3, skills on reading academic writing, and collaboration.   For the project brief 3, we were asked to make a 2-minute video of other person, who can… Continue Reading →

Project brief 4 is a group project, which should be completed by three or two students. At first, I was very worried about this. Because this is the first time doing a project with others, there may be some problems…. Continue Reading →