Reflections
Third year is done. I don't think that's how anyone would have wanted the year to end, but there you go. It's a particular shame, because...
Third year is done. I don't think that's how anyone would have wanted the year to end, but there you go. It's a particular shame, because...
We have been developing Radio Underground for months and were very far down the rabbit hole when we were given the devastating news that...
The film should be finished. We should have just faced the mad scramble in order to get the film finished. I should know whether it was...
On the video conference with Andrew and the class, I was impressed with a lot of my classmates photography. There were some genuinely...
I’ve really enjoyed the opportunities in Work Related Learning this year, from taking part in Lucy Webb’s graduation horror film, The...
For a long time, ‘auteur theory’ has been the leading method of approaching film criticism. However, what exactly is it, and is it really...
So Ruth is trying to get me to sign a contract for the film, but I'm not sure about the terms. Aaron and I wrote the film, he's DPing it,...
We have now done a much more extensive version of the storyboards. Honestly, I think I'd probably want to do another draft if we were...
Judith Weston's book is easily the best book on directing that I have ever read. It is an extremely useful resource to have and I'll...
I don't have much to say, but I've had a surreal feeling all day. This was meant to be the first day of the shoot, but instead I'm stuck...
Literature and film have many similarities and so are closely related. As film is recognised as a predominantly narrative medium, it is...
Michael Rabiger's book, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, has a lot in common with Shot by Shot and it covers much of the same...
So since Covid 19 and the film's cancelation a heck of a lot has happened. To be honest, when I found out the film wasn't going ahead, it...
The film is dead. To be honest, I'm pretty devastated. This was to be the first film I wrote and directed in several years, but now it's...
Unfortunately, I missed the class, but Rory Stewart came in to talk to us about ADing and he gave us some really helpful notes: Types of...
So Leonard Cheshire Disability got in touch with us to say that we could no longer use the garage for our film. Apparently there is a...
I've been going back and forth in my mind as to whether I want to use score in the film or not. The only time I might use it is when Tom...
The last time I worked with Harris Redpath, Radio Underground's editor, was on a film called The Man Who Ran Away. However, on this film,...
Aaron and I did some test shoots, just trying to really nail down the look we're going for. These are obviously very rough, however they...
We had another producing tutorial where she looked at our scripts. However she too seemed to really like it. She didn't have any notes...