Today’s workshop featured the presentations of Project Brief #3. I found it incredibly interesting (much like Project Brief 2) how everybody approached their media portrait. Who they chose to feature, how they decided on representing their chosen person through the elements of found and shot footage, and particularly how they chose to work their found […]
The aim of this media portrait was to portray a somewhat disjointed documentary, that focused on the subject of Tom Douglass – a good friend of mine – and his experience with, and enjoyment of, music and his guitar. This portrayal was inspired by the avant-garde films I had seen in a cinema studies session […]
Today, the first Project Brief was due – sweet relief for the first task of the subject being handed in. In tables, we shared our lo-fi self portraits (or as I grew to call it, selfy-p’s) using the coloured-hats method, as inspired by a man whose name I’ve forgotten. Anyway, it was really interesting to […]
Ayyyyyye – the first workshop for Media 1 done and dusted. Starting the session with the introduction of oneself to the others in the room was expected of course, this simple activity satisfyingly left me to think, ‘I am with my people’, after the talks of movie, radio, news and all things media. Good start. […]