The first week of Nuke was more about learning the fundamentals of cinema before delving into the software.
Due to some technical issues with the PDF we had to do “part II” first and “part I” is due next week. Gonzalo said that every year, something has to go wrong on the first day of class and it has always been a ritual and I am privileged to be a part of that ritual.
The class started off by talking about Mise-en-scène also known as placement on stage. This consists of elements like lighting, composition, acting, camera placement, set design, location, make-up and hair, colour, and costumes. Then we were shown frames from different movies and asked to analyse their Mise-en-scène and explain more about the elements of Mise-en-scène.
Gonzalo gave us a homework assignment. The goal was to capture time. I have attached my idea of time below, in the form of these photographs.
Time is a very hard thing to capture, especially when you have to communicate time through still images as time is something that portrays a movement. So how should I visualize this movement in time as a still picture?
For a few pictures I used the long exposure technique, so you can see how time moves in the pictures taken. Time will take you to different places.