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beatroot:
February 19, 2018

Things I've learnt from UNSW O-Week:
- There are a lot of societies
- Campus is bloody huge
- So many buildings
- A lot of people from my school are attending UNSW
- UNSW students didn't mind that I was from a different uni which was nice

If I enjoyed the UNSW O-Week, then I'm definitely stoked for the AFTRS O-Week.
It starts tomorrow.
((I'm so excited))

PS: Was good seeing the NSW AN crew again ;D +thanks to Rui for tour guiding us around campus

fantasticbeasts3:
it was good to see you too!!! hope you have loads of fun at your o-week. :-)

Potatohater:
100% agree with all of this, I'm so glad they didn't kick us out haha!

beatroot:
February 20, 2018

[AFTRS O-Week Day 1]

- Arrived on campus around 8:30am to collect my ID and the orientation booklet. We had to get our cards activated so that we can have access to the lecture rooms and studios (there's a swipey thing near all the doors and you need to scan your card to enter)
- Hugest relief when I discovered a guy from my first AFTRS course was here. Here's the film that we made together > 'Donut Envy'
- From 8:30-9:30, all the BA students were in the library. I talked to a couple of people. We were then called by the staff to move to the main theatre for the introduction and information session.
- "We must take down the cats!" - the AFTRS CEO. Cat videos are apparently the enemy of the Australian entertainment industry.
- The heads of each departments introduced themselves to us
- Around 1/4 of the cohort (there's 95 of us) have moved interstate which I find reallllly interesting

I honestly expected to get freebies, join clubs and get a tour around campus today, but none of that happened. Rather we broke into groups of 19 and went into small lecture rooms for ice breakers. After that, (I really didn't expect this) but we went straight into filmmaking. I know right?! Filmmaking on the first day?! Even as a film student, I honestly wasn't prepared to get straight into production. Surprisingly, production is my least favourite part of filmmaking (I'm a post prod kind of gal. I love being alone in the editing suite)

Film: [Unnamed film] Name: TBC

At the start of the ice breaker session with my group, we took a quiz to find out what type of learner we were. We were asked by our group lecturer to make a film to teach people about the different learners there are (visual, aural, read/writer, kinaesthetic). Within the group of 19, I got into a group of 7 and we decided to do a crime, mockumentary film. The different witnesses/suspects are different type of learners. But the irony is, their ability to learn is taken away from them. For example, the read/write learner had her glasses removed off her. The visual learner tried to draw the suspect from memory but their drawing ends up being ripped up by the bad cop. The kinaesthetic learner has her arms strapped to the chair so she couldn't identify the murder weapon. Lastly, the aural learner kept getting interrupted by the bad cop. I'm really bad at explaining plots but I'm hoping once I have this film up and running, you guys will understand what my group is trying to get here. It took about 1.5 hours to film this ~90 second film. Literally no one wanted to be in front of the camera because all our excuses were 'I'm studying film not acting'. But in the end, everyone ended being an actor anyways, which I find really ironic and hilarious.

What now?
So we're going to do an editing workshop tomorrow to edit what we filmed today. This is going to be my second attempt at Adobe Premiere Pro which I hate so much because I don't understand it. Though if I use iMovie, I'm gonna get judged so hard... There will be more inductions, tours and whatnot tomorrow. There's also a drinks and diversity mixer tomorrow night which will be interesting.

Potatohater:
I used to edit in iMovie and tell people it was premier but once you confront the fear and play with it enough it's actually so awesome! It's so much more powerful and easier to use than iMovie once you get the hang of it, and it makes it easier for doing special effects in after effects (don't know if you've used that yet) due to adobe's dynamic link. Honestly..... I'm really starting to think why didn't I go to film school too?.....

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