Millie Newton Film And TV Blog

Watch a range of Depict entries, both past and present and shortlist your favourites. Six mothers   Coping   You Died   La Forêt Sauvage     Six Mothers  https://www.depict.org/2019/six-mothers/?category_request=2019 Six Mothers is a short, non-fiction, video which tells the story of motherhood and captures the sense of how one can interpret childbirth, The art behind the frames and shadows allow the film to illustrate birth in a creative and powerful way, capturing your senses and drawing in the mind to focus on the slow shots and aesthetic of movements. It connects mothers with the sense of nostalgia from experiencing a visual art form representation of the life they gave birth to. The video is shot like a still image but with the slow and forceful surroundings capturing the camera it creates a sense of reality as beauty. Even though the camera itself stays still the water crashing against the camera gives off the illusion of you slowly sinking with every...

Connotations Through An Exchange [featuring Millie, Meg, Sophie and Chanel] For our exchange task, we were given the challenge of creating a short film within 20 shots of an item being exchanged between two people. The task involved keeping to a strict number of shots while still being able to perfectly demonstrate the story told. Our group had decided to pass a USB stick between two people. This was shown through Millie passing a ‘secret’ document to Sophie, with her then smuggling that into Megs pocket. We managed to use all the required shots from, match on action shots, POVs, eye-line, too wide angle and closeup shot types. Our shots all involved each element required for this task. We managed to complete filming on time with the slightest of hiccups of Megs not being there for one lesson and Millie and Sophie being called to do a video for the school’s website. We managed to pull through and finish with the help of Chanel who recently joined our group making it quicker and m...