The Year 10’s first film task as a cohort challenges the very nature of themselves. The iHuman project is their first individually devised film that pushes them to explore their identity through the moving, visual medium. This task integrates such enthusiasm from the emergent film cohorts year in and out, seeing them fully immersing themselves in the creative process. From inspiration, exploration, the seed of a concept, scriptwriting, storyboarding, filming and editing, this task is essential to ignite the creative flame and desire for feedback necessary in all filmmakers.
The vulnerability of the cohort’s films was an incredibly notable aspect of the screening. We saw how geography and music inspired the cohort and influenced their identification of self. Motifs, or recurring elements of the films, for example soundtracks or imagery of the beach. There were inspirations from directorial auteurs such as Wes Anderson, who explores intricate dialogue, colour palettes and symmetry in his films. Overall there was a great desire to express meaning and purpose through cinematography. Another strength of the cohort was their editing skills, which shaped and polished the final product. An example of this was Sienna Fitz’s film that used motion blur, which created hazed imagery, a visual treat that expressed dreamy sentiments.
The QACI community was gifted a detailed insight into our surfacing filmmakers who will (with no doubt) carry the baton from our older years with pride and creative liberty. The ability to reflect, explore and contemplate your identity through abstract forms such as cinema is an incredible experience, and whilst this task can be challenging, the 2023 year 10’s should be very proud of their first project here at QACI- so excited for what’s to come.
...article written by Pemay Johnsen, Year 12