Week 10 - Day 3

Today I had a feedback turtorial with Andy on my assessment on moodle. The assessment was analysing the marketing of 'The Wrestler,' which was part of the Introduction to cinema module. I passed which was a good thing to hear. I encouraged my group on choosing a film and gave good analysis of the marketing campaign. A lthough, in the module as whole Andy would like me to extend and offer more thoughts on my blog on what i have covered in class. The feedback was useful because it shows me how i need to improve on my blogging.

In the afternoon, we had a viewing of a tv documentary style drama called 'Cathy come home,' it was very emotional, it was about a young couple and how they go down a poverty hole, after the husband is injured and can't go to work. At the end of the screening I was completely stunned. The tv drama back in the 60s brought up issues of homlessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children which resulted in a national housebuilding programme.The film should us how television is a potential force for change in society.

Week 10 - Day 2

Today we had critical and contextual studies 2 with Andy. He was talking about the form of classic Hollywood film making. We started doing a group exercise, a shot list for a short dialogue piece. Each of the groups came up with similar shots and the way they were cut together. the purpose of the exercise showed that we all came up with the classic Hollywood form. 

This style was established by Hollywood in the early film years and has stuck ever since because of its simplicity to edit.

In the afternoon we had Richard for screen writing, where we shared our premise ideas. We also took part in an exercise for a short 3 minute outline that went slightly chaotic but better than last time. 

I was happy with my premise ideas, but i believe i can do better. On a whole the day was very educating and has spured me onto opening my mind further, really just to dig deep or gothat extra mile to find better premises.

Week 10 - Day 1

Today, the class split into the two production teams, for the two nominated, three minute films. The two nominated films are called, 'Love, Mugs and Stickmen' which was written by Ross Williamson  and 'The Messenger' which was written by Gavin Laing. The class was assigned into two groups of 6 by the DFTV panel a few days ago. I was assigned into Ross Williamson's production. Anyway, back to today, we were allocated by Ross, the author into our roles in the production, I was chosen to be the camera operator. I am particularly happy with this because I believe camera operating is one of my strongest skills in 'the industry.' 

We began to share our ideas of who should be cast in the primary roles. Later we started breaking down the script in terms of props, sound and shots etc. I sat with the author and the camera assist and began to plan and work out shots, the style and the rhythm of the film. I suggested that some of the shots would require tracking. Although the class have not been trained in this element, I thought I'd drop an email to Ray to see if I could get a crash course on how to use the tracks. Adam was sure that it would be fine. The day was very fruitful and I'm excited on how the film will turn out.

In the evening, I took a visit to cineworld and watched 'Bronson,' which I am really dissappointed about, because it wasted 95 minutes of my life. I' ll write a review on The Luke Reviews.