Final Reflection on Your Studio Experience Creating the short film ‘The Alchemist’ for this last studio piece has been a journey of reflection, learning, and creative experience. The beginning stages included brainstorming with my group and ending with the initial and final screening of the studio exhibition. The Alchemist explores a young woman’s attempt […]
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Golden Age Cinema Assignment #4 Reflection
The Alchemist Film Link a) Reflection on Studio Learning and Personal Development Engaging with the studio has been a great experience in both a creative process and understanding how media can be used to explore a complex emotional way. One key studio core aspect was the idea of emotional resonance and how we, […]
Week 11 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 11 Week 11 was postproduction week. My task for this week was going through all the footage taken and cutting the clips down to where we intended and envisioned them to be. I cross referenced my shot list along side the script to ensure the footage was in chronological order and adding relevant markers […]
Week 10 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 10 This week was a big milestone achievement as my group and I completed the filming production stage. I was unfortunately unable to attend due to personal matters but i made sure i was contactable and gave my group relevant information for the filming day to assist a successful filming day. The production took […]
Week 8 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 8 In this weeks workshop we focused on early stage film development. We watched “What Makes a Film Scary?” by Broey Deschanel, also influenced our thinking. It emphasized mood and atmosphere over traditional elements. This reinforced my thought process and approach of building tension through quiet and unsettling moments instead of explicit fear. Our […]
Week 9 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 9 This week marked another step for our short film project, we were to present out group pitch and also assign roles for our production. a major learning this week was how to communicate a cohesive concept clearly to each other and to make sure we had the same narrative and theme in mind […]
#2 ASSIGNMENT
#2 ASSIGNMENT VIDEO FOLDER WEEK 4-6 BLOGS PREMIERE PRO TIMELINE A2 STORYBOARD A2 PERSONAL RELEASE A2 What you were trying to achieve in terms of critically communicating about Framing in Film and explain the method in which the editing process was used to attempt this? My goal for this in-res was to […]
Week 6 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 6 This week, I learned framing to a deeper understanding, but I also learned one-point perspectives and what they contribute to; these were also learnt in the previous weeks. We learnt that it plays a significant role in storytelling visually. Framing can draw an audience’s attention and enhance the emotional message. As we learned […]
Week 5 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 5 This week was about visuals, the narrative of prestige TV, and the qualities it takes to elevate it beyond what we generally know. One big focus was the one-point perspective, consisting of all lines in a frame directed towards a single point. This allows a viewer to investigate the depth of the frame […]
Week 4 Blog: Golden Age Cinema
Week 4 This week’s content topic was sound design and visual compositions in film and how they impact the end result of storytelling. I learnt that these elements guide emotion within the narrative and are crucial. One aspect that I took away was how composers such as Ramin Djwadi build emotions and atmospheric soundscapes like […]