The rough cut screening in class is always a great way to gauge how your film/documentary is travelling. Although we weren’t 100% fully satisfied with our rough cut (I dont think anyone is really) it did essentially encompass what we hope to achieve for our final product. The feedback was really helpful in the sense [...]

In last weeks tutorial we went down to the editing suites so that can Rohan could have a look at what we had done so far. This visit from Rohan was a real eye opener. I think because we had been so efficient and ahead of schedule in regards to shooting all our footage we [...]

As the semester continues my appreciation for sound continues to grow. So far the use of sound has not been that prominent as I have only been required to record sound for interviews and B-roll. Although the recording of this sound can significantly add to the final project I am much more looking forward to [...]

Synopsis via IMDB: In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and [...]

After watching the brief clip from Scorses’s ‘No Direction Home’ the thing I immediately realised was the stark differences in the way Dylan is portrayed as opposed to D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary about Dylan ‘Don’t Look Back‘ In Pennebaker’s film, the portrait painted of Dylan is one of arrogance and vindictiveness. In ‘No Direction Home’ I [...]

In this weeks tutorial Rohan went over the concept of 3 point lighting for us once again. Although we have not used lighting for any of our interviews so far, this weeks tutorial was quite useful as were planning on using lighting for our interview with David Astle. We will most likely be filming the [...]

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As we continue to delve into the the black & white subculture of crosswords in Australia we continue to find more and more people and organisations who dedicate their times to creating and completing crosswords. After some great research work from Verity, she came across cruciverbalist (one who constructs crosswords) David Stickley. David has had [...]

The beginning of our documentary begun when Verity e-mailed David Astle with the idea for our documentary. David emailed back saying it sounded fun and that we’d just need to find a time to film since he is pretty busy filming a new season of Letters & Numbers. David was very helpful and even made [...]