According to my current understanding on the Film 3, this is a course which focus on our practical skills of shooting and manipulating our own footage, rather than talking about so many readings and theories. We are allowed and encouraged to create our own work with creativity and passion, and out tutors will give feedback on it, point out the thing we shall notice and improve next time. This is exactly the model I want, and I feel after studying so many kinds of theories of film making, I finally can do something by myself.
So basically, what I want from this course is the same thing that the course wants to offer us. I am doing my second year now, and at the end of next year, I will graduate from school. Now it should be the time I start to practice myself and gain some experience from it. In this semester, my goal is to create a short documentary or drama project by myself by the end of this course, as one of my show reel. Then I will use this as an example of my work to find a relevant internship in film and TV industry, to gain some real experience which will be extremely helpful for my future career.
Besides, I read the course guide and find the short film project will be made by group, and the idea of film will be proposed by each student. This is a good idea, but I am a little bit curious that is there going to be a procedure of selecting the ideas which will be used? After all we cannot do all, so we have to choose the most practical ideas. And after the ideas are decided, are we able to choose the one which we like the most and form groups according to that?