Week 3 Journal

Wednesday 17^th January 2018 with TAL

Like last Wednesday, we shared out scripts again.

Then we watched a movie called ‘Mulholland Drive’ by David Lynch famous film maker known for other titles like ‘Blue Velvet’, ‘Eraserhead’ and ‘Twin Peaks’. I quite liked this movie, because of the gripping mystery of the story and the character developments. I like a good mystery in my movies. It was just a shame that we could not share our thoughts after the movie as it ran over time. I’m hoping that I can do more research into this movie, to be honest it was quite complicated.

Thursday 18^th January 2018 with NEIL / DAN

We all had a meeting in the morning by Dan regarding attendance of individuals in our course being very alarming, I completely agree as I have noticed some people not turning up to our sessions. I was able to share my opinions to Dan along with others and it looks like we all now understand each other, also Tal’s sessions should now be better as they are separating us in smaller groups so we can read each other’s scripts and therefore have more time to watch the movies that we are given and have more time to discuss it afterwards. Some of us thought it would be a telling off by Dan but I disagree this was a wakeup call for those that are not currently fully engaged with the course and so we can share our thoughts, I felt that Dan was our shrink when we were opening to him. I was nice for me to share my feelings and mind to him so we can all improve on the course. However sadly Neil couldn’t join us due to the horrible winds that happened from last night until later today, trains and travel methods like trains and buses were cancelled too, so Dan gave us the work to investigate floor plans and blocking in films.

Friday 19^th January 2018 with ERICA

Instead of watching a movie we were given the chance to talk about Mulholland Drive as it was such a complicated movie. We touched upon a lot of stuff like meanings, plot, stories, narratives, references, characters and so many different areas of the movie. I now fully understood the film and have a good knowledge of it to confidently talk about it. It was nice to also hear from other student’s point of view to hear their perceptions and beliefs on the film, it gives me a variety of things to listen and use to better my knowledge and strengthen myself. I hope we can do this sort of session again, I think we might as we talked about this sort of session yesterday as we all agreed with Erica to abandon watching 500 Days of Summer instead so we can focus on this movie.