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SCRIPT TO SCREEN Pixar’s ‘UP’

Our class exercise today was to view the opening sequence of ‘Pixar’s’ UP and attempt to write the scene ourselves. I learned something about myself in this exercise… just how slowly I write. I struggled to find the words to paint the pictures on the screen.  I found a few, and some I thought an…

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EMERGENCE

  EMERGENCE (start 1st  draft synopsis) The highly restricted research laboratory is located in the latest and most advanced buildings on the University campus. Covered in what is publicly believed to be merely round photovoltaic cells which move to collect the sun, those with classified access know the decorative membrane to be loaded with the…

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PROJECT BRIEF 2

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/vera-pavlovich/2017/03/25/1-collaboration/ http://www.mediafactory.org.au/vera-pavlovich/2017/03/25/3-creating-worlds/ EMERGENCE I spent ages trying to post this file..in the end it wouldn’t transfer photo pages or script format.. I declare that in submitting all work for this assessment I have read, understood and agree to the content and expectations of the assessment declaration.

3..CREATING WORLDS

“This description of C. C. Baxter’s apartment in The Apartment (1960) written by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond shows quite how much the lens is implicitly present. The writing selects and frames specific detail exactly as a camera does. We are told where to look and what to see.” (Adam Ganz, ‘To Make…

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1.. COLLABORATION

“I always find that if two (or more) of us throw ideas backwards and forwards I get to more interesting and original places than I could have ever have gotten to on my own.” (Cleese, John 1991) In thinking about the quote I reflected on an early experience, in class, of collaborating with a group…

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Project Brief 1- The past and present..variations in tone.

I viewed an exhibition of photographs today that took archival photographs of Melbourne and duplicated the shots in the current day. The photographer matched the position and perspective of the camera in the original shot and exhibited the photos alongside each other. I found the results quite startling. The tone of the old photographs reminded…

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