Composing in Film, Video and New Media

Finally we got to discuss my field, film, and I loved it. In this new digital age shorts and films are being produced in large quantities. This is great but the line between film and video has been slightly blurred due to the renaissance of the internet. Youtube is a game changer for artist allowing for their work to potentially reach millions. We learned through class lectures, discussions and visual examples from the speakers. John LeBlanc and Julian Semillian did excellent jobs of teaching our lectures and I found these class days to be the most refreshing of the year.

As a filmmaker I actually for the most part knew what they were talking about. John really stressed collaboration, which is a key part for not only film but all art forms. Collaboration is a very important in film because it is a field that absorbs every other. Film deals with photography, design and production, acting, music and dance. Every one of these basic building blocks can collaborate together in film and create wonders.

I learned a lot from Julian for the most part because what Julian talks about is a more experimental avon guard style of filmmaking that I legitimately know nothing about. It is a free style of expression that Julian has grasped onto very heavily and is very passionate about. One thing we did that was pretty fun was we made a surf video, which I will link below, that was fun to do. I took some of my older work and pieced it together in a somewhat linear way that could potentially be a weird teaser trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tSJa5kCKGk&list=UUpGGMp-gwX7CJzbDxpdDWNw

Moving forward I would like very much to learn more about experimental and avon guard filmmaking from Julian Semillian. He is a very intriguing individual who has very interesting aspects on film that I would like to dive deeper into. I am thinking about sitting down with Julian sometime next semester to dive deeper into this topic.

Overall, I enjoyed this unit of study. It was the one I was really looking forward to from the beginning and it hit my expectations. Filmmaking is such a powerful field that can reach and affect millions, but none of that is possible without collaboration.