Short Sounds Film Festival & the art of Networking
Vlog 4. The fourth and final installment. I’m over the moon. Blogging for me doesn’t allow me to express myself in the creative way in which I decided to pay for higher education in the first place. I believe that blogging is more a tool to use upon gaining a bigger media footprint. If I want to acknowledge skills I have learned in the two lectures I’ve had over the past month and a half then I handwrite my personal account because university was a very difficult choice on whether I should actually do it with regards to a media career. I’m getting this personal because I was told that I should adapt my journal’s style to the making of the blog.
To end the series I would like to talk about the Short Sounds Film Festival I recently attended. Ironically I made a vlog regarding my day at the event, however when attending the festival it just featured talks from other creators and so wasn’t really filmable content. Which was still awesome as I learned more than any of the recent seminars and lectures…(being that there haven’t been any). This particular festival, if you couldn’t tell, had the main theme of audio in Film. This caught my attention immediately because of a lecturer on the course being extremely biased towards audio and so this was the first time to have a balanced perspective of audio due to the documentary that was screened during a talk called “Making Waves”. This documentary had all of the household films from Star Wars to Jurassic World and it was an epic and insightful piece. It started off a bit slow however I’m sure the biased Lecturer would have loved all of it. Overall “Making Waves” opened my eyes more than the course ever would have but being on the course landed me this opportunity so I am very grateful.
Well that sums up the most impactful part of this festival to my learning. However it did not end there when I decided I wanted to feature my programme leader on my vlog and due to my vlog being my very first proper attempt at one, it was very improvised. The interview went horribly! My programme leader was very disappointed and found it awkward to be with his students afterwards. I found this to be very strange especially when he emphasises students first.
Overall this series of blogs was going to be about the Work in Media Industries however strikes and the lack of support for the blogs has reflected on my work, hence I have been airing out my thoughts about my current experience of being a Media Production student. Thanks for reading! Now I’m off to play some COD…
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