Direction Unit; Direction Workshop

Today we had to take it in turns directing performers to create drama in a scene taken from the film Atonement but at the same time we had to think of what camera angles we would be using to capture the drama. I decided I ask one of my performers (Maddie) to have a bad attitude, just to make it a bit different, wjat do you think?

Director Unit: A change of heart!

Right. I've changed my mind! I'm now no longer doing Shameless or Lost I've now choosen to do Appropriate Adult! And already have got loads of ideas, I was really struggling for ideas with lost!

So here is a video from Appropriate Adult its a bit long but I think I'm gonna use 3mins from 5mins 54sec - 11mins 07secs  

Documentary Unit: Ideas

After a tutorial with Helen yesterday we discussed my 3 ideas,  we narrowed it down to 2 ideas as one would of been to difficult to gather information or reliable information. So now its a case of choosing from my 2 ideas or working out if I combined my 2 ideas into 1!

Direction Unit: Research

After spending hours choosing between Lost and Shameless I have finally decided to go with Lost and I think I've found a scene that  I can work with although I've still got a few I like the look of. I think the scenes I've been looking at I can put my own stamp on, but still have a lot of thinking to do.

Today was the lighting workshop, where in groups we had to film different scenes using different lighting tehcnices and film them, we had to shoot; a portrait lighting shot; a hero lighting shot; a villian lighting shot; a experimental lighting shot and an expressive portrait shot, follow the links below to see what we came up with.

Director workshop

Today at the studios Simon gave us a Directors workshop, where we had a lecture about all the roles and responsibilities a director has, and like Simon says "You cant learn how to be a director, you just become one!" So he gave us all 1min to direct the rest of the class I whatever way we saw fit, this varied from dancing, running, jumping, the list goes on. Then he set us all a task to get in groups of 5 and you get 20mins each to come up with a scene each which had to involve the passing of a note, so we had 20mins to direct the other 4 in the group and film it, see the link below.

file:///Users/dross/Desktop/Dean%20Ross%20The%20note.mov

Back to uni :D

Well today I went back to uni after having 13weeks off, and I've missed it big time.
Today Simone gave us an introduction into or Directors unit, it was all a bit mind boggling at first but I think I've got my head around it now and think I've got a good idea!
Simon also set us a task to come up with a 3min film called 'Summer Is Dead' and to be fair my group fell well short of the mark,  I don't think we were nowhere near as prepared as we could of been, but I learnt a lot as I found the viewing very embarrassing, and hopefully this wont happen again, although it was fun working with the cameras again.