Arts Leadership: Cinematography workshop (Week 2)

Aims:
-To better understand the importance of cinematography
-To start to come together as a group

Today was all about the camera's... Cinematography! and we learnt a bit about sound but anyway I loved it. We also watched some of the first celluloid pictures to be projected. There was something strangely beautiful about seeing where it all began and thinking about how far it has come... We also learnt a bit about the camera's we would be working with, which were really great! I learnt a lot more about framing and how significant it can be in a film.

As a group we have started to come up with idea's and a draft for our short film... although I had some problems getting together the group and talking about idea's as for a start Alice had two facebook accounts and I sent a friends request to the wrong one! (stupid me) and then it felt like everyone always had something on.. It was very stressful for me to reach the deadline and get the Script outline sent in, in time... but when alas I did get everyone together and we all started talking, we came together really well as a group and had some fantastic idea's. Our final idea is about a guy who is walking on a seemingly ordinary day when he sees a dead body, he tries to help but every time he touches the body he gets flash back's of a dark night and someone arguing and gutting into a row. He then breaks this flash back and turns over the body to see his own face, the body is him.... or something like that haha, it needs some work but Sophie wrote up a fantastic outline of the script! I really think this is going to work.

Review:
-To better understand the importance of cinematography... I definitely achieved this, While we were watching 'workers leaving factory' which is, as it says in the name, simply people leaving a factory. I noticed how much time went into that. even that 1 minute or so clip. The lighting was perfect, each person was framed perfectly so the video felt more realistic and natural. It showed me, how much preparation has gone into every shot of a film and also highlighted how far we have technologically developed.

-To start to come together as a group... I feel like the group is still ever so slightly shy at this point... however it is is still early days, I still feel as though this has been partly met. I am still really optimistic about the future with the group. However at the minute it felt like everyone was slightly afraid to share their ideas with the group..