FLTV10010: Making Movies 1

Visual sequence of 10 images due in week 6 (50%), 1000 word director's statement due week 12 (30%), weekly quiz (4 questions, 20%)

If you want a H1 with little to no effort, you've come to the right place. You turn up, listen to Jonathan go on about how he's awkward with his friends and family because he borrowed money from them to make his film but he didn't turn enough of a profit to pay them back (he does this quite often and won't shut up about it), then watch snippets of films and listen to Jonathan talk about them and how it relates to his own film.

I'm not sure what goes on in the second hour of the lectures because I never stayed that long. There is an 80% minimum requirement of attendance to lectures despite you not needing to actually listen to the lecture to do the quiz (more on that in a bit), so I recommend you turn up for the first 10 lectures then skip the last two as it's a pain in the arse travelling to the Southbank Campus and back just for the one lecture. I also recommend you sit at the very front row so you get the attendance sheet first so you can sign it off and be on your way. The people who sit at the back tend to have to stay back after the lecture to sign their name off apparently.

As for the content itself, it's fascinating at best. I wouldn't say it's boring at all but to be honest I could have read up all about it on Wikipedia myself. The movies Johnathan takes samples from are actually pretty good so the lecture serves as a good place for you to find movies to watch.

The weekly quiz is ridiculously easy. I didn't turn up for more than an hour of each lecture and never listened to the recordings and didn't drop any marks allocated for it. You can easily Google/Wikipedia the answers, it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes for each quiz. It's a free 20%.

The assessment tasks are the most difficult part of the subject relative to everything else, but in itself is not hard either. The visual sequence will take the most amount of time coming up with the idea, not so much doing the work itself. The director's statement is a simple matter of meeting the specified criteria by writing a paragraph about each element they ask you to elaborate on. For both assessment tasks there are samples from previous semesters on the LMS for which you can directly use as a template to score highly. Beware they do include one sample director's statement that's absolutely horrible and a complete joke (I assume it scored poorly) - don't use that for ideas/inspiration unless you want an idea of how not to complete the task.
In conclusion, I only did this subject because it was easy, required minimum contact hours, counted as a breadth subject and I needed a H1 to boost my WAM (weighted average mean). There's no point in doing this subject if you're the kind who actually wants something useful out of your breadth subjects.

Audio only

Jonathan auf der Heide and guest lecturers weeks 8-11

No exam in this subject

2 Out of 5

Fuckall

1x 2 hour lecture at Southbank Campus

2014 Sem 1

H1

Weekly multiple choice test (4 questions) - 20%

Visual Sequence (Storyboard) Week 6 (50%)

Director’s Statement (1000 words) Week 12 (30%)

Lectures

12 lectures about a variety of topics that cover the basics of film (acting, genre, story, sound, etc.) The main lecturer, Jonathan auf der Heide, is a pretty funny guy but he doesn’t shut up about the one feature film he made. There’s a hurdle requirement of 75% so make sure you sign your name off the sheet during the lecture. By the halfway point of each lecture don’t be surprised to find that half of the other students have already left…
The lecture will basically be an hour of film clips interspersed by some discussion by the lecturer. Pretty mundane stuff but some of the clips make you want to go home and