Project 3 Final Cut
Honestly, not the best thing since sliced bread, but I'm happy with it. Enjoy (... hopefully)! HALLWAY (Feelin' Myself)
Posts
Museum Trip
Zoe Leonard: Survery Unfortunately, due to my shitty schedule, I couldn't attend the class trip to MoMI. While that in and of itself was a bit of a disappointment, going to the Whitney as a trade off wasn't all that bad. I didn't really get a huge sense of film-production-y media from this retrospective, but I could see how Leonard's attention to detail - both in the images themselves and the placement of the images within the space - could contribute to the aesthetic principles of film and media production. SO, the Whitney has this exhibition on Zoe Leonard, a pretty famous media artist who works in photography and sculpture. She's been around for a while and has certainly earned her place in the consciousness of the art community - it seemed to me that a lot of her work was more concerned with how an image or object is given meaning, and what that meaning translates to in the socio-political climate of the art itself. Her photography especially struck me as a...
Scene Analysis
Relationship Between Shots Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, dir. Taika Waititi) In spending about, oh, I don't know, two hours or so excitedly jumping from one movie clip to another of literally EVERY movie I've rated above an 8 on my IMDB account (which is admittedly a lot), I stumbled across Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a Taika Waititi movie from 2016. A movie that was totally underappreciated, but nonetheless absolutely heartwarming (it also happened to be the only movie I could find with a clip under one minute). I'll spare you a confusing plot summary, but I totally recommend giving it a watch (fmovies - I'll say no more). The scene opens to an establishing shot inside a hunting lodge/ranger's post in the New Zealand outback. As Ricky crosses the frame, the camera follows the 180 degree rule and switches to a left-side close-up of the two characters' profiles as they look at a paper posted to the wall, which Ricky excitedly points to. In a...
Audio Portrait Final Cut
Ashleigh Interview - Final I know this goes a smidgen over the time limit... but to cut any more would take away from the TRUE Ashleigh Experience ™.