Week 5, Day 4 & 5

Thursday, I was totally oblivious that I had a lighting lecture in the morning. I presumed, for some reason we had an editing class, we all received an email stating that Gavin our Editing lecturer was ill. Through misinterpretation I did not attend the lighting session. There was information posted on moodle about when the class which I didn't read hence my absence.

Later that day, we had an afternoon with Zam Salim, sharing his basics on storyboarding, we also properly structured and finished our strange short story ideas which we came up with in Zam's previous class. This exercise was more a refreshment (which I needed) of what we had learned in screenwriting last year, but with a directors point of view.

Friday morning was a continuation of Zam's class on Thursday. We storyboarded the famous plane chase sequence from North by Northwest. After we were drawing some more, storyboards up for short 20 second sequences. I love the fact Zam physically increases our skills by making us do what he teaches us about. I must state that all my lecturers tend to do this, which makes this course what it is. For me it's a brilliant way of understanding on a whole new level. I can't stress enough how grateful I am, being a participant in this course.

That afternoon, was a screening of The Searchers. On a previous blog I predicted what I thought happened but it turned out very different from what I expected. I will review The Searchers on the other connecting blog, The Luke Reviews.