So according to my film making tutor, my second year ALSO means nothing towards my degree. Thinks he can justify giving me 42% for my documentary but then 63% overall when including my group effort.
He says that we shouldn’t focus on getting a high grade because we should just turn out films that we enjoy and like. That makes no sense to me. As human beings, as students, we are determined to do well. So why encourage us to slack off because we know that the ramifications for this are ultimately minimal.
Students, in nature, love to procrastinate. We leave things until the last minute then get highly motivated when we have hours before the deadline, the synapses start firing quicker and we create a product that would have taken weeks originally but then takes far less. I can personally announce, here, on the web, that I am one of those people. I leave work to the last minute then pull an all nighter and turn out something that i am ultimately proud of. The examiner may not have the same idea. Grading me down for not following the brief, but if i am going to take on this new idea that the grade doesn’t matter. Then i won’t let it bother me.
This is, in a way, how I would like to be graded. I would like people to get me to explain what is going on in my film, my intentions and motivations as the film went by. Not respond to a specific brief letter for letter. They can’t see my production through my eyes so would never be able to understand what I am intending with each individual shot. Or even see the effort that I am putting in for a specific cut or sequence. This makes me re-assess by tutors. They are at the end of the day, my audience. I will not rise to please them anymore, doing exactly what i want to do in a film that satisfies me as a director/film-maker. It may jeopardise my grade. But hey!
Doesn’t mean anything till the third year
In other news i’m almost on top of my script right now for my fiction piece. We have developed an ending and listed out locations. I actually have a casting call later on this afternoon and someone is genuinely auditing for my film. It seems so weird having someone who wants to act in something i have written, they may not actually want to work in the film specifically because of me. But its still cool and makes me feel all professional.
I might start doing longer personal entries, like this. As i occasionally get in these massively creative moods and want to write. Im in one of those moods today. Hence me raffling on right now.
All the best
-G.P
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