Author Archives: markreid1895

LIFT films with LNS

Posted on March 12, 2024 by markreid1895

Saskia at London Film School drew our attention to Marc Isaacs’ 30 minute documentary ‘Lift’, which combines many of the techniques we are supposed to look at this year. The film is notionally observational – though the filmmaker is so … Continue reading →

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Dermantsi, Bulgaria

Posted on February 27, 2024 by markreid1895

A number of us were privileged to be able to visit the Neofit Rilski school in Dermantsi last week, where Daniel Simeonov has been teaching film and photography for many years – at least 6 or 7. He has a … Continue reading →

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Wragby farm film

Posted on February 16, 2024 by markreid1895

This year Ivor has moved to start a new film club at Wragby Primary School, also in Lincs. They’ll be coming to Lisbon in June to show their film. They’re probably going to make something about a local farm park. … Continue reading →

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Worcester Boulevard

Posted on February 15, 2024 by markreid1895

As a welcome back to Chris Waugh (ex London Nautical School), I’m sharing one of his school’s (Christ’s College in Christchurch New Zealand) Lumiere Minutes. It’s a bit less than a minute, and clumsily screen-grabbed by me 😦 , but … Continue reading →

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First Exercise 1 film!

Posted on November 15, 2023 by markreid1895

Saskia and Eleanor, running the London Film School Saturday club version of CCAJ, have begun with Lumiere Work Minutes. Here’s the pick of them below – Saskia reports how giving students a focus for their Minute – ‘find someone doing … Continue reading →

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Launching 2023/24: Documentary

Posted on November 10, 2023 by markreid1895

The new theme for 2023/24 is ‘filmer l’autre: le geste documentaire’ for which, as usual, there’s no easy translation into English. It seems to be the question of filming – and constructing? – ‘otherness’ – ‘alterité’, in French terms. Jack … Continue reading →

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London Film School Exercises 1 & 2

Posted on March 14, 2023 by markreid1895

Saskia van Roomen has been running a film club supported by the London Film School, on a Saturday morning. Here’s two films of Exercise 2 – in which sound is used to decentre the action, and the audience’s attention. Filmmaker … Continue reading →

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Some Long Takes

Posted on March 12, 2023 by markreid1895

With London Nautical last week, we tried out long takes, where the camera wanders off for a bit, then comes back to the focus of the shot – centring, decentring, then centring again. We watched the opening of Welles’s Touch … Continue reading →

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Decentring sound

Posted on February 21, 2023 by markreid1895

This week’s excitement with London Nautical boys involved trying out exercise 2: using a sound element to decentre, dislocate, or otherwise disorientate the central action. Two clips here: one finds a use of the alarming hand dryer noise, that so … Continue reading →

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Exercise 2 Off screen sound

Posted on February 20, 2023 by markreid1895

Exercise 2 of centred/ decentred is about how sound can refocus an audience’s attention, recentring the shot, or the action. a few years ago, during Shown/ Hidden, there was an exercise that did this very nicely, so I’ll put it … Continue reading →

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