In the blink of an eye, a semester has come to a close. I attended the Directing class by Stephen Amis. We went through the techniques of how to properly direct the actors and actresses on-screen movement, which is also known as 'Blocking' which I will talk about later.
During the first lesson, we went through his background in directing and the Dos and Don'ts if we want to become a director. We should never become the Assistant Director, instead, we should just get out there and direct films of our own to build up our portfolio. We also talked about the different film festivals like the St Kilda Film Festival that we can send our films to in order to get noticed.
For the second and last lesson, we learnt how to direct our talents in the film, where we want them to be, how we want them to act and much more. We set up a camera and lighting for the scene and filmed it. We later played back to see what was good and what mistakes were made. However, due to time constraints, not all the groups were able to act out the plot that we thought up of, which was a waste.
In conclusion, the lesson was useful, but more time should have been allocated to it. As I am an international student, I am constantly trying to establish my network with the people who are in the media industry here so as to broaden my experience and perspective and how things are done here.
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