Pages

Sunday, 2 March 2014

"DIRECTOR'S JOURNAL - WEEK 1"

WEEK 1

FEBRUARY 17TH 2014 (MONDAY) – This is my first class for The Art of Film Directing. In completing my future to be in the creative industry. Seriously I’m getting excited with this class and you should if you are at my place. I have to learn every single thing that related. As explained by the lecturer (Dr. Md. Azalanshah), in this class students are required to direct a film. In the first place, the class consist of more than 15 students and some of them are not from Department of Media Studies and took it as an elective subject. An options have been given by the lecturer, remake a scene from selected film or create several videos with selected theme. By the time the class are settling their business, me and my friends are having a discussion on who will be the director and which theme we are going to pick up. Eventually, everyone agreed to make several videos and some of the students will be chosen to be the director for each videos.

We have Short Film, Public Service Announcement (PSA), Advertisement, Department of Media Studies Promo Video, Documentary and News Coverage. Now, let me introduce to everyone who are the directors and what are their video category. First, for short film, it will be directed by Ariff Adli Muhammad and the plan goes very well because in my thought, after a few videos produce previously he was more towards being the actor or crew and now how about giving him a chance to produce something. I think it’s going to be interesting.

Secondly, will be the PSA and directed by Shino Lim. She had been to Taiwan for a semester and maybe there are new fresh ideas are coming out so let’s give her a try on this. Advertisement will be directed by Ahmad Hisyam Azren and this will be his second direct. As from my experience, this person is quite critical in production field, parasites beware. But don’t worry you’ll be ok if you have done your job very well. The last video for this class is the department promo video and guess what this is one of the toughest videos we are going to produce. A student from other faculty stood up and volunteer to direct this video and the funny part comes when he said that, “actually me and my friend haven’t register this subject and today we plan to just look around in this class”. So, as for now there will be no one directing the promo video until we meet on the next class. Before the class end, students who not directing anything are excluding me have to choose their category of videos.


No comments: