I think, first of all, the most important thing is hands on. A few of my studios have been very minimal in terms of actual filmmaking, and the project brief from this studio seemed to indicate that there would be a lot more actual filmmaking for the assignments. The news that we would have a filmmaking/photography/podcast etc task every week to work on in the studios on top of the film assessments was music to my ears obviously, thats the kind of thing I was hoping for out of this studio. I’d also like to perhaps bring my outside corporate filmmaking experience into the studio for the photography weeks. This sort of realistic, biographical photography that we explored in week 1 coincides well with my experience in the marketing film industry because these sorts of shoots would definitely be at home in that world. The podcasting elements are interesting as well, I’m very limited in terms of experience in producing any kind of audio outside of music, but the medium itself is something that I sink a lot of time into, and have always thought about perhaps producing/creating my own podcast.
But my passion, and what I want to explore most throughout this studio, is creative filmmaking in all shapes and forms.
In terms of a tangible goal, I’d like to get to the end of the semester with a film that I’m happy to put into my portfolio and use to advertise myself as a filmmaker. There has been a significant lack of that in this course, last semester being the first time that my studio was actual completely focused on filmmaking and produced two pieces of work that are welcome additions to my folio.