Film (movies and TV) represents a significant portion of my life. I watch more movies than any of my friends, movies that span all genres and times, from Citizen Kane and Gone With The Wind, to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Tropic Thunder. There is this magnetism about film that attracts you into a whole new dimension of perceptional awakening and stimulation. It is this quality that inspired me to do acting in theatre when I was 8, and I have been doing it ever since.
During today's lesson, we basically had an overall introduction as to what we, as a class, will be focusing on this year, which is Sound Design, and documentary writer/director Michael Moore (notable for his highly critical and controversial works on American politics and society such as Farenheit 9/11 and Sicko). From the start, I was already very intrigued about this topic and could not wait to get started since Michael Moore's works are very eye-popping and influential. After that, we had a review on the Do's and Don'ts of working in the Multimedia Room e.g. Do not walk or run around the Multimedia Lab; Always put your hand up and wait patiently for the teacher to come and answer your inquiry.
Afterwards, Ms. Wong then assigned us tasks to fulfill, which was a list of Cinematography techniques and scenes that we had to utilize and film. I have never done Film before so when I received the task sheet, there was some terminology that I did not understand like Rule of Thirds, Dream-Like Sequence and Two-Way 180 degree Dialogue etc. However, I got into a group of 4, of which 2 people did Film last year, so they taught me all that I needed to know and showed me all the techniques that were required. We filmed scenes like "Student walking up stairs, looks up and is surprised - Use COLOR to show Angry or Melancholy ; "Film 2 identical scenes: Use LIGHTING to show Happiness or Sadness" etc etc. Filming all the scenes
took up about 45-50 minutes of class time, and after that we returned all our equipment back to Mr Chiang and started editing our footage. I learnt quite a bit about Cinematography today. I learnt several different filming techniques and I believe that they will be vital later on this term.
Today was not only fun but a very productive lesson. I learnt a lot, thus fulfilling my Human Ingenuity AOI. I absolutely cannot wait for the next lesson to come by!!!
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Andrew Huang
Glad that you are so enthusiastic about film, Andrew! Remember to be more analytical rather than descriptive in your reflections. By all means describe what you did in class, but the important part is to tell me what you thought about it. What did you learn? What did you find difficult? How could you improve?
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