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Sound Meeting

I don’t really know how to summarise the sound for an entire film like I could for cinematography so sorry about that. Maybe I’m better...

Acting Workshop

I was very unsure at the acting workshop, however, I actually think we found an actor who was decent. The actors I worked with were...

Ruth Meeting

- Juliet is confirmed on sound and Harris on editing. - Post production both doing 3 projects each. Very busy, but not much we can do...

Screenwriting 434 - Part One

Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 was recommended to me by a friend. I have the same issue with all of these books though. Despite what they...

Suzi Meeting

- In the last 9 weeks, 7 films have been made. - You can’t live in the bubble of your film so it’s important to be very careful - Prep...

Paul Meeting

Pretty major developments in our film. We don’t have a whole new draft of the script yet because most of the changes are conceptual and...

Aristotle's Poetics

Aristotle's Poetics was an interesting read. It's supposedly the most basic 'rules' of storytelling. I don't think there was anything in...

Short Films with Paul

Night Swim - https://vimeo.com/400042378 I didn't really like any of the characters in this film, and while I do think that was likely...

Proposal Pitch

Story It’s about a world-weary, vacant hitman named Ellis. He and his psychopathic, arsehole partner Kane, who relishes in other people’s...

Save the Cat - Part Six

- Once your first draft is done, set it aside and don't even think about it, let alone read it, for at least a week. When you do read it,...

Short Films With Paul

Paul split us into groups and gave us some short films to watch and discuss in class. Here are a few scattered thoughts on these films....

Paul Meeting

Ellis Ellis has been a hitman for years, but he’s grown tired and regretful. He’s disturbed by the things he’s done in the past, but at...

Paul Meeting

Aaron and I had a meeting with Paul about the first draft of our screenplay and he had some very interesting things to say. I didn't get...

Save the Cat - Part Five

- Save the Cat: Introduce the hero by having them do something good or likeable. If they are morally grey, have the bad guy be worse....

Class With Paul

Paul asked us, "Why is your film important to be made NOW? What circumstances are we living through that make your film relevant?" That's...

Films With Paul

Listen - https://vimeo.com/196593911 Listen was one of my favourite films from this week. I found the constant confusion of losing...

Research Agenda and Rational

This year I’m drawing from a wide variety of different resources for my grad film. The film takes a lot of inspiration from genres such...

Save the Cat - Part Four

- Put the following beats on one A4 page. If you can't explain each beat in one or two sentences, then you don't have the beat yet. -...

Research Seminar

We had to choose a scene from a film that we thought would be a nice representation of something we'd like to achieve with our films this...

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