Out to Space

There are some questions to think about the script that we want to create for the final project:

• What is the story you are telling? What is it inside you? It has to be an issue that you are passionate about.
• What is the character that brings the story through? What is hope or fear that drives the story? Hope is the ultimate goal whereas fear is where you do not desire to face.
• And who is the story for? Who are really the people we want to talk to? This will determine how we build the lead character that can relate to the audience.

The protagonist should be humanised and has the spark of life even though he/she is not a good guy. There has to be something that intrigues others. On the other hand, the antagonist bring changes to the story. Conflict is the central of the story. The antagonist is the person who gets in the way of hope or put fear in front of the protagonist. In the end, it comes the moment of catharsis. He/she is not the same person any more.

As a artist, we are the magician whose job is to guide the audience to inhabit the world we have created for them.

23 March 2009

Memory of You | Reflection of Me

This is the memoir of how my major project at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, unfolds. We, Master of Digital Media students, were asked to write a blog about our projects on the schools server. This film is very much personal since it is mainly about mental illness and I am currently climbing out of the depression. I hope that the experience of making this short film would share what I have been going through and will make some awareness of the issue.

• Initial Plot
• The Magician
• Got Stuck
• Out of the Hole
• Style Breakdown
• Tasks Breakdown
• Pitching the Project
• The Casting
• Semester Break Update
• Big Questions, Slow Start
• Locations, Locations, Locations
• Rough Storyboard
• Meet the Cast
• Folding a Boat
• The Big Day
• The Record Session
• Re-Shoot
• Post-Production Juggling
• A Nightmare Comes True
• Almost There
• The Tangible One
• The Screening
• Reel to Real
• My Film at Fordham Fest