It's excruciatingly painful to have to go through 12 weeks of pre-production work, filming, and editing only to come out the other end to have everyone say something along the lines of "what a shame about..." Unfortunately for our group, this was the exact case for our film Under Control. We knew sound was going to be an issue from all the things that had gone wrong last week during post-production...
Why the Australian government won't win the war on online piracy and copyright infringement.
Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.
Quit your whining!
The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...Australian Films To Look Out For In 2014
2014 was recently described by Inside Film as shaping up to be "one of the strongest years for Australian films." In anticipation of this, and considering my lack of posts recently, I thought I would provide you all with a few more reasons as to why this claim is valid made with summaries of the films mentioned and their accompanying trailers....Why the Australian government won't win the war on online piracy and copyright infringement.
Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.Quit your whining!
The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...
Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Animal Kingdom
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to receive wind of a brand new Aussie film coming out that to be honest, I hadn't hear much about but was being shown at Cinema Nova as part of a Q&A session. Every fortnight or so, Nova hosts an evening where the directors, writers and some of the cast of a recently released film come along to watch the film with the audience and then hang around after...
Friday, June 11, 2010
True Blood
Recently, my roommate and I have been sucked in (pardon the pun) by the latest vampire TV hit True Blood. I once tried watching this show a couple of years ago when it first came out but the image of the decomposing fox in a time-lapse style seriously deterred me from watching anything other than the pilot. I have to admit, I regret not being more open to the idea of the show before. Having now watched...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The End...
Well, I never thought I’d say this but it finally looks like we’re finished! Fin! Fini! Forever! Well, until next semester at least anyway.Our end product I have to admit wasn’t exactly what I was imagining at the beginning of the pre-production phase. After having created extensive storyboards, shot lists and script suggestions for the film, I had a pretty good idea about how I wanted the film to...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Final Cut
Everything is on the line today. I mean that literally with every clip being on the FCP timeline and figuratively as today is our final submission date for the film. I spent 6 hours adding the finishing touches to the clips last night and attempting to fix that bloody sound problem but at 2am, I decided enough was enough and I’d just have to see whether everyone else could come up with some ideas.Unfortunately,...
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Wild Lines
What is it about that bloody Murphy guy? I mean, who does he think he is creating some law that says anything that can go wrong will go wrong. I’m a member of a democracy! Don’t I have some say in whether this law should be a part of my life? I have some local council representative in Parliament to drive it out don’t I? Apparently not.Yes, it would seem just when you think you’ve fixed a problem,...
Editing Sesh # 2
Editing Session 2Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap!!!Phew! Ok, breathe!!!!…. And now let go….Ok, I think I’m alright now. Apologies for my outburst above but I am seriously pissed off right now. I’m not sure how and I’m not sure why but for some reason, looking through the second tape of our fiming on the weekend, I just discovered we only have 2 takes of the clip of Luke speaking almost half the scene…with...
Friday, June 4, 2010
Readerly Reading of Writerly Texts - try saying that 10 times in a row...
I came across <a href=“http://www.jstor.org/stable/20119619?seq=2”?>an interesting article</a> during my research of Roland Barthes theory of the readerly and writerly written by John S. Brushwood regarding the readerly reading of a writerly text. This was an idea I wanted to explore in opposition to Barthes belief that readerly texts are so fixed, so “characterized by the pitiless divorce...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Music Is The Answer
I have played some form of musical instrument almost my entire life. Starting with piano at the age of 4, I progressed into violin at 7, the drum kit at 9, the snare drum in a Pipeband at 11 and dispensed throughout the most of this, dabblings in guitar and voice. I do therefore, like to believe that I have a good ear for music. I’ve realized recently however, that there are two different ears that...
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