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Lets Shoot This Sh*t

Everything I have learnt this semester, all my training, my lessons, has led me to this moment. On Saturday I shoot my final Film 3 project. The lead up to this shoot has been a bizarre hopscotch of time passing… Continue Reading →

Booo Reality

As always, pesky reality has interfered with my glorious artistic vision. After everyones pitches were made I paired up with Jaime as we seemed to share similar visions and ideas, as well as having compatible interests for this project. While… Continue Reading →

Film 3 Project Pitch

Three things led me to my pitch for my final Film 3 project. Firstly, the thing that sparked my interest and led me into digging up the next two, was this: My time in the Film 3 course has led… Continue Reading →

The Sense8 Switch

During the course of Film 3, my eyes have been opened to so many film techniques that I have been itching to try, and when we were told to pick a technique to investigate with a group on Friday I… Continue Reading →

Location, Location, Location

If you ever have a few hours to spare I completely recommend just wandering around the city. Melbourne has so many hidden treasures as I discovered on Tuesday when my boyfriend and I found ourselves at Flinders having already eaten,… Continue Reading →

Boxing Film Exercise

For this initiative post I wanted to push myself and created a short film exercise for myself that corresponded to my interests as a film making, mainly choreographing and filming action/fight sequences. I took three scenes from movies that showed… Continue Reading →

The Scene of The Crime

Its only as I’m typing this up that I realise both the story pitches I mentioned in my last post involved (attempted) murder. Oh well! I chose to look at a location for the second one, involving a jogger in… Continue Reading →

Getting An Idea

For years Ive had half formed ideas flitting around in my head, vague dreams along the lines of ‘wouldn’t be cool if….’, ‘I’d love to make that….’ and ‘but what if I could…’. It was only this year that I… Continue Reading →

Moving With Purpose

I never knew the distinction between an ok actor and a good actor until now, because I never realised exactly how hard it is to make everyday actions look good on camera. Something as simple as walking down a staircase,… Continue Reading →

Lighting, Camera, ACTION

Staring at footage from past projects of mine and then comparing it to the quick shots taken in our last class, I can already see the obvious improvement, I can’t wait to see how even this will compare to footage… Continue Reading →

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