Week 2 is non existent, I was riddled with the flu, according to a source from the web I had 7 symptoms of swine flu. The whole of the week seemed wasted though I did watch an interesting drama on Sky Arts, In Treatment from the people who brought you the sopranos as it said on the advertisement. Being a fan of The Sopranos that line caught my attention. In Treatment is a drama or maybe more of a play in some ways produced by HBO. HBO they always come up with the goods. We have Gabriel Byrne as a psychotherapist treating clients. It is as simple as that. Each character are all three dimensional, you can clearly see that the writers have took a lot of time to develop them from head to toe. This addictive drama hypnotises you for 25 minutes pulling you deeper and deeper in to each of the clients life taking place practically only in the one room. Boring you might say, surprisingly it's not. The stories right up to the dialogues is original (to a point) extremely realistic and engaging, dramatic at times but it works, making you emotionally yielding to the characters. This enlightened my creative senses and in a way brought a brand new passion to my premise ideas, though Richard did slate these ideas but that is a different story.
Week 3 was an exhausting return, with my immune system low it took me a while to get back in to academic operation. Monday started with cinema movements focusing on the art of editing looking at some of Sergei Eisenstein and Walter Murch's original and creative works. We looked at the theories of both men and came to the conclusion of that they both believe editing is constructive rather than a destructive one. Editing is more than just cutting images together, it's driving the story and the emotions of the audience.
For me, usually I shy a way from the editing process but Murch's rule of six has simplified the art of editing and has brought a new understanding of cutting.
The afternoon I had an intimate one on one with Richard. I explained my premise ideas but Richard liked the initial idea of them but realistically the premises were to shallow. He advised me to go back and develop the stories so they have a twist and deeper meaning. I'm sure I have mentioned before that I am passionate about writing and I know there is ideas waiting to be fulfilled. I explained to Richard my creative senses are easily stressed, it seems i have to come up with my own creative stimulating formula. READING/RESEARCHING that is my answer, which I need to do a lot more of.
Tuesday we had Zam all day, this class is becoming more and more refreshing giving an insight of directing which is my ultimatum goal. Zam as our lecturer is easy going and fresh. He is very understandable. In the morning we dissected a scene from The Godfather being one of my favourite films, I was shocked to find some flaws, minor if that. The flaws included a massive camera shake at the end of the scene and some terrible acting form the background extras. In the afternoon Zam went over storytelling structure and how important it is. A very long class but enjoyable.
Thursday was a day for sound, not one of my favourite subjects. Sound is extremely important but i think its one of they elements where you like or you don't, yes like Marmite. Our new lecturer went back over some of the basics last year, It was simple and more understandable than our last sound lecturer. He seemed to cover a lot but was easy to digest because we recalled our sound notes from last year.
Friday was screening time we watched a film called The Conversation written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. A review of the film will be on The Luke Reviews.
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