reflections

Paul had a temporary moment of disbelief this morning that it was Week 8 already, which also set me into a bit of a panic mode. This semester has gone so quick, and although I thought there was still plenty… Continue Reading →

One of the major things I need to consider regarding my investigation of places (and cinematography) is whether I want the different segments to have narratives in them or just have them be moments in time type observations. In this… Continue Reading →

Today was presentation day, where everyone proposed the idea or concept they’d like to explore for the rest of the semester in Film 3. It was really inspiring to hear everyone’s ideas, as they were all so unique and interesting.… Continue Reading →

Instead of our typical Monday morning class this week, we were each asked to select a twenty minute period to consult with Paul and discuss our ideas heading into the second half of the semester. I took in the notes… Continue Reading →

In preparation for the pitch at the end of Week 7, I’m still not a hundred percent sure about which idea I’d like to do. I have a bunch of ideas that I’m interested in, yet no real direction as… Continue Reading →

Today’s seminar was another editing class. I didn’t think through enough to the editing stage when I was shooting my sequences, just testing whether the type of shot could work in a different scenario then in the scene in Girls, so… Continue Reading →

For my technique/approach today, I’ve decided to try out a specific camera movement, after being inspired by the below shot from the HBO series Girls: In this sequence, the camera tracks Lena Dunham’s character Hannah as she gets off the train… Continue Reading →

Today’s class involved Paul going through some lecture slides that set the trajectory for the second half of the semester – what end goal we might get to and how we might get there through the course of the next… Continue Reading →

In today’s seminar, we were introduced to audio mixers in order to complete a whole audio setup. Having only used SLRs with crappy audio before, all this ‘proper’ sound recording is new to me. Towards the beginning of the class,… Continue Reading →

In today’s class, we were again moved to the edit suites. There wasn’t explicit instruction to edit anything specific, so I used the two hour time slot to further familiarise myself with Premiere and experiment with editing our previous class… Continue Reading →