On January 14th 2015, the two AS Media classes had the privilege of spending a day at the University of Kent attending seminars and taking part in workshops. We travelled to the university in the morning and were split into two groups. We then took part in the first of many activities - a worship on in-camera editing. In small groups, we were given a camera with film in it as opposed to a memory card, which meant that we were unable to edit takes that we did not want and had around 20 minutes to create a very short film involving as many of the 5 given stimuli as we could. These films were then shown to the rest of the team and voted upon for things such as originality and technical skill. This workshop provided a very useful insight into just how important it is to plan shots and content before you film it.
We then moved on to a screenplay workshop, lead by a lecturer who had previously been a screenwriter, where we watched iconic scenes from films and examined how they were taken from the page to the screen. After this we began to roughly adapt well-known fairytales into a new setting and create a short screenplay for one scene. This was a very useful experience as we were able to further our understanding of just how much work goes into getting an idea from someone's mind into reality.
After lunch we had a tour of the campus and viewed a film that had been made by one of the students acting as a chaperone on the day, then attended a seminar held by two of the lecturers at the university. The seminar was about the Horror genre of film which was appropriate to our film opening as Sci-Fi Horror is a well-established sub genre. Finally, we attended a closing lecture about film and studying film at a higher level which was very informative and gave us a real sense of how Film and Media Studies can be useful in the adult world.
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