Category Archives: Place and Story 2017-2018

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 →

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 →

Here’s the version of Saskia’s padlet for Secondary schools – slightly more grown up clips and exercises. https://lfs-outreach.padlet.org/embed/swrpwgpndw13qeil

24th June and 4 schools (and one virtually) came to BFI Southbank to screen their Motifs films. Five very varied takes on the brief for this year: Make a short film – with or without a story – with 2 … Continue reading →

A friend and I, separately, saw Dune this weekend. Unlike me, he lasted to the end. When I asked him what he thought, he offered ‘Big canvas, tiny conventonal story.. lots of mandatory giant door-clanging’. ‘Giant door-clanging’ I thought sums … Continue reading →

Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) is unjustly overlooked I think, as I guess Campion’s work is in general. It’s the story of the love affair between English poet John Keats (the original ‘poete maudit’) and Fanny Brawne; it ends unhappily. … Continue reading →

CCAJ resumed last week, with training in Paris for a new theme: Motifs in Cinema.  Change is afoot: instead of all the partners and workshop leaders meeting at the Cinémathèque Française, the event was held at Cine 104, in Pantin, … Continue reading →

Saskia’s group have recently finished Exercise 3 – they’re going to Paris in the summer, so have to be slightly ahead of the rest of us. Their films are all on Vimeo in the Bromley Film Club collection. For a … Continue reading →