After several hours in the darkroom and going through all the necessary steps (setting up the enlarger, printing a contact sheet, printing enlarged photos,…) I came up with several final prints that fulfilled the criteria of portraiture, landscape and a recreation of an already existing photograph. After consulting the contact sheet, I saw that I… Read more

Our four-week analogue photography workshop started with an introduction to the workshop by Caroline Burke. She explained the schedule of the coming weeks and old us about the final outcome we had to come up with till the end of December. The assignment was to hand in three 10×8 inch photographs, one of which deals… Read more

The sound workshop in which we were introduced to the Adobe Audition software was the least interesting one for me. The workshop itself was well done and Andy Banks did a good job of showing us common audio task of non-destructive and destructive editing, but my personal interest in audio and sound is just not… Read more

This week I attended another After Effects workshop with Andy Banks. He took up the basic skills he already taught us and introduced me to the technique of projection mapping, which means the process of using a projector to illuminate animations on surfaces. This technique is particularly helpful for us because it is often used in… Read more

At the beginning of the animation workshop Stuart Moore showed us some inspirational videos that were the perfect introduction to the topic of the day: Doing stop-motion animation using the Dragon Frame software. We were shooting our stills with a Canon 700D because it’s one of only a few cameras that can actually work with… Read more

After Craig Whyte introduced us to the cinematic lighting techniques of portable lighting equipment, we worked in three teams to carry out a lighting exercise. Our task was to shoot four different lighting scenarios using given examples incorporating the use of filters, gels and the basic three-point lighting technique. We should record at least 10… Read more

This week I didn’t have a session with Tim Mills to talk about my project for the Illuminate festival but attended an animation workshop with Andy Banks. Most of the students in our class (including me) used Adobe After Effects for the first time that day. Andy walked us through all the basic steps of… Read more

This week we were supposed to carry on with the things we learnt about camera settings in the last workshop. Moreover, we were introduced to the Picture Style “Prolost Flat” which is often used by Vincent Laforet, Phillip Bloom, Jason Wingrove and many other filmmakers. To film with this certain Picture Style, it was necessary… Read more

In preparation for the workshop in Adobe Premiere Pro CC we had the task to get used to the DSLR Canon 5D Mk II and film some footage. The first step was setting up the camera. We set the dial to M and adjusted the shutter speed to 1/50 sec. The ISO was set manually… Read more

Our lecturer – the film-maker Dan Paolantonio – encouraged us to try our own experimental film challenge. It was our task to create a film which explored our immediate environment. We should also consider textures, patterns and movement.  After watching inspirational short films that Dan created, we discussed possible obstructions for our own short film.… Read more