Sara Downham- Lotto was our first guest lecturer and coming
from a predominately art background, her work was an example of a different creative practice from my own, but
one that could provide me with some future creative and professional opportunities.
She seemed more or less unfamiliar with our work as much as
we were with hers, she showed us some examples of some of her collaborative
efforts with year 2 B.A. film students which was primarily time-lapse. She
asked us for our opinions how what could be done to make it better, for which i myself made a suggestion. I said
that she should embrace the overall composition of the film rather than trying
to break it up to try and make it more "digestible", as I felt that
flowed better and seemed more authentic the way it was.
I felt as though my advice was valued and appreciated, it
gave a different perspective on how I can use my skills to assist individuals
and potential businesses with similar questions. I have spent a lot of time
thinking that my professional skills and practices would only be helpful to
fellow film-makers and media personnel, but through spending time with Sara it
was obvious that my work could be of use to a larger creative and professional
community which should have been glaringly obvious since i have been working as
freelance music video director for the last three years.
This lecture was of
great use and I hope to work with Sara in the future, as I'm potentially
staying with the college as part of my PGCE placement studies. It would give me
a chance to advertise my own work whilst collaborating to reach a collective goal.
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