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Week 6 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli

So, in week’s six exercise we were supposed to make a dialectical montage, which basically means a lot of second unit footage. So, the goal of the exercise was more to find images and videos across the internet that fulfilled the filmic ideas we wanted to present. Our idea was to do the myth ofContinue reading “Week 6 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli”

Week 5 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli

So, this was a wild one. It has been almost a month since I did the part and I still have some bruises from it. Relax, relax, nothing major. Nevertheless, the experience of just giving yourself to a role was quite fun. I never took myself to be an actor or anything like that, IContinue reading “Week 5 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli”

Week 4 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli

I have a very serious and totally not fake condition called Visual OCD. That means that I’m super nit picky with images. This weeks exercise was reenacting a scene from Ingmar Bergman’s excellent film Persona. My mother always was a great fan o Bergman’s. I can’t even remember the age that I saw The SeventhContinue reading “Week 4 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli”

Week 3 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli

In week’s 2 theme we needed to create a situation based on breach of trust, and think how the mise-en-scène would affect the story and create a sense of space and personality. One of the things carried over from lasts week learning curve was the idea that each character should have a personality and itContinue reading “Week 3 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli”

Week 2 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli

How do people from different cultures perceive visual storytelling? That’s what always interested me in film. Growing up in a country that doesn’t speak English I’ve always seen films subtitled, until I finally learned the language, that is. My mother never quite understood English, even to the point that she hated how it sounded. ThroughContinue reading “Week 2 – Pettrus C. A. Vizioli”

Week 5, Aaron Lyttle

FILM: The Disturbance ROLE: Writer and Director. This weeks film was to do with sound scape, so our restrictions had us not being able to use the sound captured through the camera, how we would normally do it with a boom pole and also no dialogue was aloud. The sound design had to be capturedContinue reading “Week 5, Aaron Lyttle”

Week 4, Aaron Lyttle

FILM: Persona Reenactment. ROLE: Sound. For this weeks project we had to mimic a scene from the movie Persona. I had done acting in the previous two weeks so now was finally my opportunity to get behind the camera and choose a role. Ultimately I decided to go for the role of Sound technician orContinue reading “Week 4, Aaron Lyttle”

Weeks 7 & 8 – Juliette

For these weeks, that unfortunately didn’t get to happen as planned due to circumstances outside of our control, I had the planned roles of Editor for the British Realism task and Producer/Actor for our final film. We had already begun to plan both films before being told to skip to the final, and then ultimatelyContinue reading “Weeks 7 & 8 – Juliette”

Week 6, Lighting Technician (Daniele)

Welcome to week 6. This week was on Dialectical Montage, a style of editing, using second photography footage. For this short film, I had the role of the Lighting technician. My job was mainly on the filming day; illuminate the set. I strictly worked with the cinematographer and director. In movies, lights need to haveContinue reading “Week 6, Lighting Technician (Daniele)”

Week 5, Producer and Colourist (Daniele)

This week the exercise was centred on sound. The task was to make a video using sounds recorded separately with a Tascam and sound effects. The main point of this exercise was to explore one of the fundamental roles in film production, the sound designer. It’s important to think in advance, during the pre-production phase,Continue reading “Week 5, Producer and Colourist (Daniele)”