Week 4

Monday, Cinema Movements. In this session we delved into the world of soundscaping. Starting off with a class exercise where Andy handed each of the three groups a sentence describing a scene. We then had to list the sounds that might be heard for our specific scene. We created a rough assembly of a soundscape, listing many sounds. The sounds listed for each scene started to shape pictures in our heads.

We then went through some codes and conventions of sound.

I fully believe that sound has a lot of power and value in films, making uninteresting scenes a lot more dynamic and powerful adding to the characters mood and direction of story in terms of the audiences conscience.

Later in the day Richard was discussing with us how we can change the 3 act structure. I find breaking the three act structure extremely hard since it has been drilled into our heads for the past year. I think I need to be extremely knowledgeable and grounded in the 3 act structure before I go around changing it. Toward the end we broke down Timmy and Choreomania in terms of three act structure.

Tuesday, Factual programming. Andy went through some rudimentary interviewing techniques. Broke down in it's simplest form it comes down to What, Why, Where, When, How and Who. The five W's and a H. Andy also went through some of the do's and dont's of interviewing. After this session I understood that my documentary Sharp Art, back in Heyday's (that was a joke) was not up to spec. Though it's not my hearts desire, I'd like the opportunity to be involved in the making of a documentary again.

Thursday, editing with Gavin. We were introduced to Avid an alternative editing software in the academy. I have never used Avid before, I'm not much of an editor but I'm only familiar using Final Cut editing software. Avid is similar to Final Cut having most of the same tools and commands. In my opinion Final Cut is easier to use but in some ways Avid has better ways of doing things. If Avid and Final Cut were amalgamated it would make things more easier and official.

Friday, Adam and the class were reviewing our T.V review sheets for Teachers and Shameless, as a class effort we listed all the themes that fit into each of the episodes. We then cut the list down to five main themes. The whole purpose of the exercise was to see what the audience like to watch in terms of issues and a selling point of view. I enjoy these classes even though I see myself in the film industry rather than T.V these classes give a good template on how to go about making stories.
In the afternoon we watched 12 Angry Men directed by Sydney Lumet, please read the review on The Luke Reviews.