Week 1

We have been eased into our first term, there wasn't that many classes. On Wednesday we were introduced to our new lecturer in directing. Half of the class screened their favourite scene, then we described how it was influential to us, then as a class broke it down in terms of visual style, performance, pacing and music etc. Our lecturer was trying to figure out what our film tastes and perceptions were.

Friday the class attended a screening of Metropolis (1927) in the lecture theatre. This futuristic German Expressionist film was awe inspiring from the point of the creative architecture, unique designs as well as the clever use of special effects. The Story otherwise was hard to follow or indeed make any sense. The look of the film was no doubt a blueprint for other sci-fi's to follow.