In my final year of university I chose to take the sound design unit. I had never done sound design before and knew virtually nothing about it. While doing the unit I have found it to be intriguing, fun and challenging. Looking back at my experience with the project I have a few takeaways on what I learnt and what I would do if I … Continue reading What I learnt from my Sound Design project

Harvard referencing is the method of putting the source of your citations in your work, commonly found after the citations and in a bibliography. I have been Harvard referencing for around four years now and I still feel that I learn something new each time I reference. It is very easy to make mistakes and get things wrong when Harvard referencing, that it why it … Continue reading The Importance of Harvard Referencing

The second part of my Sound Design unit is to write a critical reflection. Over the years I have written some decent critical reflections but I’m hoping to elevate this one and make it my highest graded critical reflection yet. In class we looked at previous years students critical reflections and analysed them, guessing what grades they were given. This exercise helped me identify a … Continue reading How to write a high quality critical reflection

Audio plays an important part in film and moving image. It can determine the mood and context of a shot/scene. The sounds and tone of the audio can make us feel a certain way about what we are seeing on the screen. We connote certain sounds, noises and music to specific feelings, and through audio the sound designer can tell you what you should be … Continue reading Audio’s relationship to moving image

Before going straight into my shoot I wanted to have a practice shoot. My main problems were that I couldn’t use my actual model as she doesn’t live near me, I didn’t have all of my props, I only had my DSLR canon with a 50mm lens and I only had the lights in my house for lighting. As you can probably guess, the shoot … Continue reading Imagining reality practice shoot

My imaginging reality photography project has changed and developed and now I am focusing on trauma through the character “Alaska” from the book “Looking for Alaska”. To help me with the changes to my project, I decided to do some research into trauma and the symptoms. The definition of trauma is “a deeply distressing or disturbing experience”. In the book, Alaska exeriences trauma as she … Continue reading Trauma Research

This week week was our final week of posting for Disconnected. On Monday we posted a reminder to do the #mobilemoday quiz, on Wednesday we posted a gif and on Friday we posted a short video and stills from the film. This week we thought we would try something different and post at 5pm as that was another time of the day where people are … Continue reading Week 3 of promotion posts for Disconnected

This week was about getting engagement with our content and making people watch Disconnected now that it has been posted. On Monday we posted a #mobilemonday quiz, on Wednesday we posted a gif and Friday we posted tag a friend, all at 9am. I created the tag a friend post. I used phonto to add text to a still from the film and in the … Continue reading Week 2 of promotion posts for Disconnected

After pitching my idea to the class and reflecting on it, I’ve made a few changes to my project. Before I was mainly just bringing scenes from the book “Looking for Alaska” to life but now I’m simply using the character “Alaska” as inspiration. I’m going to be focusing on the trauma she has from her mother dying and watching it happen. The shots won’t … Continue reading Photography idea change

We started our first week of posting on our “Disconnected” promotion social media accounts by posting a collage of stills from the short film. Our second post was a 15 second trailer for the film and the last post of the week was a Gif. After these teaser posts we posted the actual short film. I created the short trailer video for this week of … Continue reading Week 1 of promotion posts for Disconnected