Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Australian Film critic, payed us a kind visit on Monday of week nine to run a lil workshop! We wrote reviews of the 2014 Australian short film I’m You, Dickhead. Alex helped us through the process of note-taking while watching the film twice, and then we swapped reviews and discussed/analysed the different ways we interpreted the task.

Here are the points she discussed:

• TASTE ­
• PRIVILEGE AND BIAS 
• AUDIENCE
• SCALE AND DETAIL
• HISTORY
• CONTEXT & OPINION

During the week we watch three short films! Spanish 7:35 in the Morning, artsy Absurda and teen angsty Lick the Star. Our task was to choose one and write a 600-800 word review on one of them. I actually found this extremely difficult. I chose 7:35 in the Morning however I really struggled to meet the word count (and the deadline). After fleshing out as much as possible, I sent it off to Alexia who will then pass them all onto Alex so she can have a read before Mondays class in which we will be reading out everyones reviews nameless!! SCARY.

Wednesday’s class was cancelled so we all got to writing our reviews!