Filmmaking Week 5

What is Theme? Write Your Story Time to settle on one idea (ideally one of the three you pitched in class) and expand it into a full story. *At this stage, you are not writing this in screenplay format, yet* Write in prose form, with two additional requirements: #1: Do your best to only writeContinue reading “Filmmaking Week 5”

Filmmaking Class Week 4

Class Notes: Theme = the inferred stance taken on a topic of a story. Everything that happens within a story should reference back to a theme. Reflection Questions for Six Word Memoir Project What aspect of the filmmaking process did you connect with the most in this project and why? (writing, pre-production planning, production/filming, editing/post-production)Continue reading “Filmmaking Class Week 4”

Identity & Reality: Cinematic Production & Critical Studies Week 1&2

As part of my personal growth in 2023, I am taking a filmmaking class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Sophie Lane. Filmmaking is about communicating ideas through audio-visual means. In this class I will practice visual storytelling that is personal and compelling and learn to connect with myContinue reading “Identity & Reality: Cinematic Production & Critical Studies Week 1&2”

Intermediate Art Project 4 Drawing Re-Do

As part of my personal growth in 2022, I am taking an intermediate drawing class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Jeff Nesbit. After spending a couple of weeks drawing parts of a face, project four was to copy two statutes from a National Geographic magazine. What went well?Continue reading “Intermediate Art Project 4 Drawing Re-Do”