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For Brief Four, I have been put into a group with Chris and Wenping. I haven't working with either of them yet, so I am interested and excited with how we will work together and what we will create. Brief Three is about using sound and image only, and steering away from the human body. As a group, we divided the readings up evenly. I read the introduction of Slow Cinema, by Tiago de Luca and I wrote dot-points about my findings and what I stood out to me as I read it. Slow Cinema: Based on the employment of (often extremely) long takes, de-centred and understated modes of storytelling, and a pronounced emphasis on quietude and the everyday. From 2010 there was much critical debate surrounding it. Boring, waste of time.  A large socio-cultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal structures from the accelerated tempo of late capitalism Contemporary contemplative cinema An unstructured film movement made up of disparate films and practices that are conceptuali...
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Working in Groups This week during our Thursday workshop class, Smilijana posed a question to us: "Do you prefer working in groups of two or three?" During this course, I have worked in a group of two and a group of three, and I think I preferred working in the group of three. There were more ideas flowing, and coming up with ideas felt more like a group brainstorm session, whereas sometimes in groups of two it feels like each person's idea is going against the other (like it's a bit of a competition). Also, in a practical sense, working in a group of three is better because if one person is sick or away at least you still have another group member you can still work with. I think it's also more beneficial because in the group of three, there were two creative writing students so it felt like it wasn't just my responsibility to be in charge of the creative side of things. In saying this, I also enjoyed working in the group of two. I really got along wit...
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I found all of the short films interesting to watch, but two that inspired me to write things were Logan and Ava's film, and Nhu, Terance and Alicia's film. Mannequin: Sometimes I feel so fake, so manufactured. I feel as if my thoughts and ideas are not original, as if I have been programmed to say what I say. That my decisions are being made for me. I feel like I am a follower. That I have no control in my life. I see my reflection. I stare at my face. Who am I? What makes me unique? Why do I sometimes strive to be the same as everyone else? I don't want to be a mannequin. Designed to be identical to so many others. Made to be placed somewhere and be forgotten. I don't want to be a plastic clone. I want to be me. Movement: Eyes closed. Still. A lifeless body sprawled on artificial lawn. Arms and legs unmoving. Eyes open. Awake. Blinking eyes. Looking around. She coughs, and takes a deep breath. Moving limbs. As if she can't keep still. She is a...
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