Film Production Y1

26/9/23 Unsure of how exactly to lay out this blog, I am hoping just to do it the same as I did throughout college. Documenting my process with projects and everything around that, so the same shall be done here... Only somewhat differently of course. Being the first day today, excluding the introduction week last week, we briefly ran back over BREO and where to find our assignments. Them of which I will be putting on this blog keeping everything in place for my portfolio. Reading the Screen, that is one of the two units of focus. The aims of this include: Helping to understand the main aspects in film. (cinematography, mis-en-scene, narrative, sound, editing). Grasping each important role. (Actors, studio, genres, and auteurs). Familiarising with film theory and contemporising developments. To help us with this course as a whole, two books based around the making of films were suggested to us. 'Film Art: Introduction', by D and K Thompson and 'The Cinema Book', by Pan ...

6/11/23 Being accepted onto an online media programme, today was our first webinar that is more or less just an introduction to the production with the first real session beginning tomorrow and will be going on for a duration of four weeks. Meeting Laurie Stewart, the CEO and founder of Mindless, she talked of her work life before Mindless and how she began working on the company as a side hustle before making it full time only this year. We did also get to meet Georgia Knell, the partnership manager who also shared her experiences before discovering Mindless. Also claiming to have been an intern around three to four year ago now. Focusing more on personal growth, they talked a lot about the programme being made more for discovering the best version of yourself rather than making a CV look pretty. "Personal transformation journey." With three key targets, Mindset, Skills and Experience, each session has been split into three parts: Mindset coaching Digital skill coaching Soci...