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[jen290302]

STILLS FROM ADULTOLESCENCE

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purple.haze.3 by the.crystalimage

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[rplayford02]

Adultolescene BtS

A couple weeks ago I was asked to come help Boom Op for Adultolescence for one day of their shoot - except I didn't really do much boom op-ing because it was sooo windy and my arms are very weak. Was very much boom swinging - not ideal so Tom, being the reigning arm wrestle champ, took control back pretty quick.

I wasn't entirely useless though! Tom and I spent a bit of time figuring out how to work Rowen's mixer since they had three radio mics alongside the boom which obviously the MixPre 3 wouldn't accommodate. And then for the rest of the shoot I was using Jenny's DSLR to take BtS pics. A really fun shoot to be on and my first of the year! Looking forward to seeing the final product! :)

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[peerbear]

Cinematography Class - Exercise 2 - Interior Mood Change

A Trip in a Trunk to Rio

After class last week I spoke with Eva about the project task for this week as we often do and she spoke about smaller spaces and how these are easier to to change and manipulate. This got me thinking and I decided to use a very small space and see what I oculd do with it, namely my grandpa’s old suitcase/trunk that he had when he was my age. As was common back then it has his initials on it, H. B. stands for Hermann Bank. At the moment I use the suitcase as my art box so it houses my paints, inks and mixed media for making art. So I took photos of the suitcase with the contents inside but then deicided to empty the box as I felt this would tell more of a story and look much more interesting. It also highlights how old the suitcase is and how these days its not used for its purpose and its owner is gone just like the contents that were once in it.

I thought about how I might change the mood of the box, starting off with an empty space that looks as I said quite old and moody, almost crumbling into earth. I then thought about the journey that the box has been on and the narrative that it tells now versus what it told in the past. My mother’s parents are German and Brazilian, and for me this is a big part of the trunk’s story. In World War II my grandpa was initially too young to fight in the war, but when he was called up to fight for Germany he and his best friend fled the country as they did not believe in the regime and didn’t want to fight for it. I asked my mother if he would have taken the suitcase with him, but she told me he fled by bike to Austria, so he didn’t have room or time to bring the suitcase with him, he used it for much larger (safer) trips. Sadly he was caught on the boarder to Austria and was forced to fight in the last couple months of WWII. However, this trunk has a much happier story. After the war my Grandpa joined his father’s gemstone company and enterprise for which he travelled all over the world to mine gems and to trade them.

For the concept of this project I imagined that he took this suitcase with him on a special trip to Rio (which is very likely, but not definite.) His father sent him there to get aquianted with one of his friends, and we are unsure if it was a set up, but the daughter of this friend was my grandma, who he met there and fell in love with. He then took her back with him to Germany where they started a family together, and that’s a wee part of where I come from. But I focused on and imagined what my grandpa might have taken with him on the way there, because I know how the journey back went. I packed the suitcase with clothes and books of Brazil as if I was him and then tried to create a dreamy magical world where the box with his clothes and belongings gets taken over by plants as he enters the Amazon rainforest surrounded by cloudlike waves (which are actually my duvets). I imagined him going there falling in love in a dream like world, which is so different to where he is from. The mood change I went for is from melancholic to dreamy and nostalgic.

I feel I took more of a production design approach to the project as the props are great, but the lighting and shots are not as diverse and strong as I hoped. I really struggled with lighting and covered the window above the case with a white sheet, this did help, however, I really struggled to control the lighting in the exact way that I wanted.

I really enjoyed coming up with the concept for this project, although I feel the photos have come out a little rushed. This is because I did not leave enough time on the weekend to do it, however, I really enjoyed doing this exercise and I think it has turned out pretty well.

Here are the photos again for more details:

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Irish Drama The Banshees of Inisherin Explores a Fractured Friendship

In sound class the other week we looked at or rather listened to a section from this film from the point of view of sound recording and more specifically sound design, my other specialism. We established that a lot of the sound track of this film was music, but however a great deal of effort had gone into the sound recordings as the film was shot on a stormy Irish island called Inishmore - which is a sound person’s biggest nightmare but a cinematographer’s dream. It only felt right to look at something that would conflict with my inner creative brain and look at it from another angle.

To start off I’m going to say the obvious, the shots are BEAUTIFUL. This is not only thanks to cinematographer Ben Davis, but also the landscape. It is a key characteristic of the film and offers a clear but ‘muted’ base colour palette to the film. This is something that director Martin McDonaugh wanted to portray - the landscape’s beauty rather than its drearyness. Davis describes the landscape as meloncholic and almost claustorphobic, I can see the melancholy, but in terms of clausterphobia he might be refering to being trapped on an island, but I personally don’t feel that in his shots, I rather find them freeing.

For the project they used a limited crew of 75 people and gear as the location was so remote and inaccessible with larger vehicles.

The narrative of the film follows old friends falling out and as a dark comedy is meant to reflect the genre of a Western. From what I have seen in sound class and in the trailer I can see this genre coming to life in the wild irish landscape. I feel this is highlighted in many wide landscape shots.

Davis describes many of the shots as ‘threshold work’ which are shots through doors and windows. I feel through these he get the feeling of the conflict and shows how the character’s are literally on the threshold of their friendship.

They wanted a specific view that shows the remoteness and roughness of the landscape, but there were no old houses that looked over bays in the way that they wanted so they purpose built Pádraic’s house and the pub. Due to this they were able to install up to 30 Dedo lights so they could really control the lighting on set.

Davis also commented that for some of the costumes they drew inspiration from Post-Impressionist artists Rembrandt and Van Gogh’s colourful paintings. I really liked that they drew inspiration from artists that lived and created works so long ago, because it shows that you can be inspied by anything and anyone.

What really surprised me was that they used an Ari Alexa Mini with Signature prime lenses and filters, which is a camera that we have access to at university which was a reminder of how good the equipment is that we have access to, that it is really industry standard.

To end with I thought I’d mention how Davis said he wanted to shoot from “landscape to faces”, to show the weather on the characters faces. For me this quote reminds me of Agnes Varda and JR’s Faces Places documentary where they tour in his van and take photos of different people and paint/print them as murals onto walls and different surfaces in different places. In both projects I feel they achieve showing how people’s surroundings affect them and their way of life and vice versa. For me this ties in nicely again to my task of the week where I have tried to show a part of my grandpa’s story through a small space and I like that any space can reflect a person and their story.

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[tomcalvinfilm]

Film Project

This first two weeks has been so scary, going round hearing peoples ideas, loving the and then realising you need to join a group as they're all filling up was so scary, but luckily I got into some projects I think im going to really enjoy.  

im working on rosie and Robbies concept as an editor, after reading their synopsis and hearing the idea im very excited, something I've always wanted to explore especially on this drama heavy course is some for of fantasy, even if its small elements. This film will incorporate moments of complete fantasy within someones mind, personally I am obsessed with fiction and this is really gonna excite me with the whole process of this film. I going to have some more meetings with them and see what style and vibe they want to go for with the edit. I think this is gonna be such a fun experience. 

The other project im helping on is Ben M’s film, the skateboarding zombie film, obsessed with the concept of this and I think ben has done an incredible job as bringing this all together, a really solid team around him with lots of passion, I will mainly be boom opping, I would love to help with a little of the sound design but I don't have enough confidence in myself to take. big role on that so I shall leave that to rowen and his expertise. 

Im very excited for this semester, im sure it'll be amazing. 

one other thing im excited to see is to start costume designing, I've recently found a passion for making clothing and wanting to see if I can incorporate this into films we are going to be making, ill need a lot of practice but hopefully this year I can get a handle on it. 

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[bofilm]

LomoChrome Metropolis - Not again.

LomoChrome Metropolis – Not again.

Hello metropolis ! Apesar de ter alguns anos ainda considero um filme recente. Lomography é sinonimo de experimentação e isso traduz-se na gama LomoChrome da Lomography. Esta família é constituída pelo LomoChrome Purple, Turquoise e Metropolis. O primeiro rolo que comprei foi no formato 120. Levei-o até ao Panteão num passeio em família. Today I bring Lomography’s metropolis film. Despite being…

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[jen290302]

Post Production - Adultolescence

EDIT

We had so long for post production on this project, but all of us were super busy. Robbie was bus with Dormouse so I set the project up for him and watched through the footage.

I did ask Robbie if he wanted someone else to edit it(im not evil) but he wanted to edit it himself. We spent a lot of time figuring out the edit, it was difficult as a lot of the time we broke the 180 degree line (i still dont fully understand it) so we just decided to choose moments where this would work in regards to the scene.

Incorporating the skating clips into the edit was definitely one of the biggest challenges, I’m glad we found somewhere for them. The time passing in the corner shop was another thing we struggled to figure out, Robbie had an early edit of the clock intercut with sped up inserts of the corner shop in an Edgar Wright type style which I thought was really cool but wouldn’t have matched pace of the rest of the film. I came up with the idea of editing the skate clips in which I think is cool with the build up of sound design. Part of me is a bit worried it comes across as cliche but I really like it with the sound design and the contrast of the colours in the grade.

I think scene 4 by far works the best, where the boys are having an argument and it stays on the one shot until Pip walks away and we go into OTS shots, I think its edited really well. It flows really well.

We flipped the last scene in the bus stop so that Robbie was in the same place in the frame as he was in the previous shot which I think is a jice transition.

Another part I particularly love is when it curs from Jake helping Pip up to the shot at the wall, I think it perfectly encapsulates Pips dismay that Jake is the one to help him up after their argument and cuts to the wall in perfect timing as if he knew it was always gonna end up that way anyway(reading this sentence back I sound like I’m chatting nonsense but I hope you understand what i’m getting at)

I know the shot where they are against the wall is held on for too long, I think a lot of the wides are, especially for a 6 minute film but Robbie and I felt it was important to let the characters be felt in their space where they were comfortable. I think if we were to re-edit I would definitely cut that shot down as it is held on for an uneccessarily long time. Logic behind is that the boys are reflecting on their lives and don’t really know what lore to say as they are finding it hard to communicate.

SOUND

I am a soundie through and through so I felt toms pain with this one, so hard to fix sound from outside but I think he did a really good job with the atmos. Blended seamlessly!!!!! I helped him with the dialouge and I really loved the sounds in the cornershop, especially the hum of the lights and the fridge and the loud ticking as this was something I had been visualising since pre production so was nice to see it come to life. Frequently throughout post I would listen and give Tom a list of notes which he completed. Favourite part of sound post was recording as hoc foley and adr in screen academy using my sound stuff.. and toms genius idea of the line “What the Fu-“

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[rplayford02]

Directing

w/ McMorran

Since Ben is also directing this trimester, he invited me along to block out a couple scenes from our scripts together.

We met at screen academy and talked through the bathroom scene where Eli meets Daisy for the first time. I feel like it will be the performance that really sells this scene and I wasn’t entirely sure how we were going to segue into Eli discovering the symbol on the wall. We talked through the characters motivations, wants, needs etc. We thought about their backstory, tried this acting exercise by Meisner which involves making observations about your scene partner and reaffirming/countering every observation they make about you. It took me a minute to get used to it and then eventually it started to feel natural. I found myself feeling really present and entirely focused on what Ben was saying and how I felt about it. We then improv-ed the scene with a rough framework of dialogue beats that we needed to hit, and it was so helpful! I've never directed actors before and I'm so terrified so being able to practice with Ben, getting his advice, answering his questions etc was amazing!

We also blocked out a scene from his film (which has since been drastically changed or cut entirely?). I hate acting in any capacity but I do think it's probably useful to try and understand the actors process - what they might need to know from me as director, the kind of language I should be using and so on.

Hopefully we're going to try and do more of this kind of thing in the future. Ben's already brought up some issues about where Eli's character motivation is coming from, which is equal parts frustrating (that he's finding holes in the film) and useful (at least I can fix them now).

As 1st AD on Ben's project, I also attended his auditions this week for the role of 'Casca'. Again this was hugely eye-opening to gain an insight into his directing style! He started both auditions by warming up with the actors - cue traumatic flashbacks to being a shy kid in high school drama lessons!! - and then used the same Meisner exercise that we did in screen academy. Honestly he's so good at making the actors feel comfortable, I aspire to be such an approachable director!

w/ Olivia

Directing classes with Olivia were really useful to reiterate the kind of language we should be using with cast and crew, the responsibilities of the director in each stage of production as well as other typical working practices. I found the rundown of cinematographic terms especially helpful since it's my least favourite discipline in practice and so I can get quite ignorant to its mysterious workings.

Recommended resources:

On Filmmaking by Alexander McKendrick (which I read most of in summer and was reminded I need to finish it! - found the discussion of writing especially insightful)

Naked Cinema by Sally Porter

Making Movies by Sidney Lumet

Her advice on working with actors was also really appreciated since this is the aspect of directing that I feel most under qualified and underprepared for.

Towards the end of this last session we acted out each others scripts (similarly to what I'd had done with Ben) and again the same problems were coming up with the dialogue - that it was too formal or else if it was trying to be stylised, it was mismatched. We're working on the script based upon this feedback.

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[peerbear]

Cinematography Class - Exercise 1 - A Sense of Home

Am I Really Home Again?

Over the years I’ve lived in Australia, Germany and Brazil for different periods of time, but Scotland has always been a place to come back to. This is the place where I grew up. It is the place I have always called home. It is the place where I was born, but I don’t have any Scottish heritage. My parents are German and Brazilian. If you are born and grow up in a country where you are not originally from it gives you a different sense of belonging and idenitity. Because you belong to all of the cultures that you have grown up with, but at the same time you don’t belong to any of them. It can be lonely when you are unable to find comfort in a single one of them. But when you do it is very special. This sense of feelling at home and a stranger in my country and my identity is something I have always been aware of. It is always on my mind.

Home is a very emotional concept. For a long time I’ve said home is not the place but the people. Last semster I went to study abroad in Canada and since then I’ve come back to my definition of the word. Home is not a place or the people, there are always great people wherever you go. For me home is a personal feeling of comfort and belonging. I have also come to the conclusion that home can also be a lonely ‘metaphorical place’ or even state of mind and this like everything else is always subject to change. It is not something that you always share with other people, often it is something that you have to create or build on your own. Saying this right now feels dramatic as I have moved back into my family home for the time being while I wait for the flat Eva and I have lined up to hopefully move into soon. You would think this is home and that living in my parents flat, a place I have always called home my whole life would be my home still. But I don’t know that this is the case for me anymore. I adore my parents and they are wonderful to be around, but I don’t want to live in this flat anymore, that part of my life feels like its been done. I don’t feel that this is my home, it will always be a base to come back to, but the meaning of this place has changed for me. I found this so interesting as initially when I heard the brief to take photos/footage that demonstrate a sense of home, I thought I would revert to older thoughts and take photos of this space. I didnt take a single photo in the house because it just didn’t feel right.

This weekend I brought some of my close friends to my favourite beach for the first time, its called Tyninghame. I’ve been going there with my family since I can remember and its always been my favourite place. Whenever I go there I feel at ease and inspired. The ocean calms me, bodies of water ground me. For me I feel at home when I’m there in the nature. I feel like I belong. The photos I took were an exploration of me and my friends in this space where I feel at home. Here they are in greater detail:

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Total Immersion for Avatar: The Way of Water

I chose this article because I am obsessed with water and I am keen to specialise in water cinematography for film. I know that is very specific, but it is something I have wanted to do since making Bodies of Water last year. As I said before water is a happy safe space for me and I feel it would be great to work in a place that offers me this kind of tranquility. Sadly, I believe this film doesn’t really offer that kind of tranquility that I am talking about. Although I have not yet seen it from what I have gathered its very much about destruction and unrest within this beautiful ocean world. The Avatar sequel is filmed by a different cinematographer to the first one, this time it is filmed by Russell Carpenter.

The article went into great detail describing lots of equipment that Carpenter used for the film, a lot of which I have not heard of. From what I gathered it mainly demonstrates how complex and difficult this film was to film. It was filmed with many cameras, mostly of two groups which were live action and 3D virtual cameras that needed to match up perfectly as moving images for the CGI animation to work.

For some of the water scenes they struggled a lot with reflections. The way Carpenter dealt with this was by using clear plastic beads layered together on top of the water to stop light from coming through this way there were no unwanted reflections. For me I would not want to hide reflections in water, I think its one of its many and most beautiful attributes that mesmerise me. I am aware that this is done to control as much of the lighting in the film as possible. However, I would find it hard to manipulate it this way. Carpenter himself says “The light should be a living and breathing expression of the life of Pandora.” From the stills I have seen he has achieved this.

Something to note is that although this film is highly technically skilled and moving the film industry forward with new technology, it is important to acknowledge that there are problems with the story - which culturally appropriates indegenious people and makes money off of a screening (eventually streaming) that is based on colonialism. This is something that the director of the film argues aganist, however, it is literally what happens in the film.

The film is supposed to be about belonging and finding where you fit in the world, which I find fitting, in spite of the plot, as this correlates to the home aspect in the first part of this exercise.

Message of the week: I have promised myself that I will be reading more this year and that I will actually contribute a lot more to my blog. This is something that in previous years I found very difficult, but while writing this post I have realised it is more fun and even therapeutic than I remember.

Stay tuned for some queer content.

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