Documentray making ; July2013

David was excellent at determining the level of understanding of each student and pitching his comments and instructions to these various levels. Also his knowledge of the film industry is absolutely top rate and hence his instruction was very relevant and very valuable. I came to the

Last week, myself and about 8 people (from all walks of life) were wondering the streets of Cowra armed with some camera gear and a desire to record an important (and much overlooked) part of Australian history; the imprisonment of foreign civilians (Japanese, Indonesian, Italian and

Day 4 of this week long program, and today was the most productive of the lot.  We started off by planning some more cutaways for the doco, then after a brief on converting the file type from the camera “RAW” type to the editable “PRORES” file type for the fina

Film Making Participants  Hone in Skills for the Internee Project: Day 3 of the film making workshop was devoted to furthering the skills of camera work and interviewing. The morning locations were the POW camp site and the Cowra Japanese Gardens. What was an extremely foggy morning w

Today at the start of our program we constructed the questions for our interviews later in the day. After about an hour or so we left to go to the cemetery. We interviewed Yuriko at the Cowra cemetery and it was a bit of a funny day because it was sunny than it wasn’t. So we had to al

Today was the first day of the week long workshop. We leant how the camera works and how to use all the sound and lighting equipment. I really enjoyed it as it furthered my knowledge with using these vital elements of film and documentary. The rest of the week should be a blast. IR