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Assessment 4

4 personal blogs: Personal reflection – Project 1 Personal reflection – Floor plan for shoot 1 Personal Reflection: Project 2 Overall course reflection Group Project 1: Group submission of practical project 1 Group Project 2: Group submission of practical project 2

Overall course reflection

As the semester comes to a close, the overall sentiment is one of satisfaction and relief that the hard work has been completed. This work, however, has been recognised to be of great value in advancing my skills as a filmmaker and creative media practitioner. At the beginning of the unit, I did not give…

Personal Reflection: Project 2

This was quite an different set up to any I have tried before, but unlike the first practical project we undertook, this set was coordinated more leaning towards the necessity of a usable exposure. Having said that there was, of course, a great many parameters we manipulated for thematic effect. Again designed for two characters,…

Personal reflection – Floor plan for shoot 1

Below is the floorplan I considered for the lighting set up we undertook for our first exercise. As can be seen, there are three main light sources. The key light is composed of the LED light to the left of the setup, as well as the car headlights. The fill is taken care of by…

Personal reflection – Project 1

Our first shoot was, for all its exertion, still very useful for our learning process. To act as a basic framework, we knew we wanted to have a night-time scene, two characters and some sort of interplay between the mise en scene and the lighting set up. The process of conception and production, I imagine,…

Group submission of practical project 1

This blog post is the official group submission of practical project 1 jointly made by: Lydia Watt s3602840@student.rmit.edu.au Jake Kenner s3601447@student.rmit.edu.au Alexander Wilson s3600705@student.rmit.edu.au Jeremy Nguyen s3646074@student.rmit.edu.au Michael Firus s3604687@student.rmit.edu.au Submission video: Documentation: Group reflection: For part one of our group work, our group grabbed all the lights we owned, a couple of cars,…

Group submission of practical project 2

This blog post is the official group submission of practical project 2 jointly made by: Lydia Watt s3602840@student.rmit.edu.au Jake Kenner s3601447@student.rmit.edu.au Alexander Wilson s3600705@student.rmit.edu.au Jeremy Nguyen s3646074@student.rmit.edu.au Michael Firus s3604687@student.rmit.edu.au Documentation: Group reflection: Many times throughout the semester the idea of cohesion in lighting terms kept coming up. In the early stages of forming…

Assessment 3

Reflection 1: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/michael-firus/2018/04/26/class-reflection/ Reflection 2: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/michael-firus/2018/04/26/development-in-understanding/ Cinematographer profile: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/michael-firus/2018/04/26/cinematographer-ellen-kuras/ Presentation summary: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/michael-firus/2018/04/26/presentation/

Presentation

The presentation was indeed successful in getting across our idea. Not only this but it also solidified our own thoughts on the upcoming project. Below is a mood board we created: Here is one of the screenplays we will shoot: There were a number of presentations that took place. All were of a similar…

Cinematographer: Ellen Kuras

The American Society of Cinematographers is an invitation admittance organization. Formed in 1919, it comprises the community of cinematographers that most often work on the commercially successful films of the Hollywood school. Having such a broad description may seem irreconcilable with the fact that only 4% of members a women. It is with this rather…