As I have been working my through the storyboards for Assignment 2, I found myself from time-to-time confronted with the problem of wanting to put more into the video than the 12 shots the assignment allows me. I began thinking more about the editing process and the role it plays in film-making and how a… Continue reading Editing film – Walter Murch
I decided to explore some of the New German Cinema films and have started with Paris, Texas, a film directed by Wim Wenders and released in 1984. It follows the story of Travis Henderson who has been wondering around in the desert for four years. When he emerges from the desert he is unable or… Continue reading Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders
Three Colours Blue is part of a trilogy directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. The full trilogy includes Three Colours Blue, White and Red. The colours are taken from the French flag and also intended to represent the ideals of liberty (blue), equality (white) and fraternity (red). In the case of blue, the main character, Julie, has… Continue reading Three Colours: Blue
For this exercise, I recorded the sounds that I listed as possible for my ‘Knocking on a door’ sequence in the previous exercise and then added these sounds to the still images that I had made during Project 2. This is the result: One of the major difficulties that I am trying to solve is what… Continue reading Exercise: Create a new soundtrack
I decided to visit Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, which was the home of William Henry Fox Talbot. Prior to leaving the UK, I lived in Bath and myself and my husband spent may Sunday mornings have tea at Lacock at King John’s Hunting Lodge. As a result, Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot museum became… Continue reading Lacock Abbey – Fox Talbot Museum
For this exercise we are required to find the most silent place that we can and then just listen and make notes of what we hear. Sitting in the kitchen on a Sunday morning: Cutlery knocking on a plate as someone eats upstairs Chairs moving Birds tweeting outside Computers humming Car driving by outside Children… Continue reading Exercise: Listening
The Victoria and Albert Museum currently has a Paul Strand retrospective on display. I decided to visit this exhibit not only because I am a great admirer of his portrait photography but also because they were showing the film that was shot by Strand in 1936 called Redes (The Wave). The film was originally commissioned by… Continue reading Paul Strand’s Redes
I’ve spent the last week in the UK, so took the opportunity to do a few ‘study visits’ of my own. As I was in London for some of the time, I went to The Photographer’s Gallery to see the work of the 2016 finalists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. This annual photography… Continue reading Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2016
Don’t Look Now is a film directed by Nicolas Hoeg. The cover to the DVD of the movie introduced the plot as – “When a little girl is drowned, her parents go to Venice to forget. They meet a strange clairvoyant, who tells them their daughter is still very much alive and gives them ominous… Continue reading Don’t Look Now
This is an exercise in creating two short scenes with the intention of imbuing each scene with a particular atmosphere. I chose to do: Atmosphere 1: A depressed teenager at home Atmosphere 2: A warm sunny day Atmosphere 1: A Depressed Teenager at Home This exercise ended up resulting in two different videos, one that… Continue reading Project 9: Exercise Atmosphere
