I'd better speed up!

Alarm went off at 6:30. Alas, I ignored it and was up at 11:30.

Didn't particularly achieve anything on the way up to 1:45pm, and I'm irritated with myself. Left the house at said time, on the way to Jon Weinbren's lecture. Got there about 5 minutes late - but the lecture didn't start yet anyway. Got a space next to Luko who arrived before me.

Things kicked off with the first few minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo. From the title sequence (which is apparently the first to use computer graphic-y visual effects) up to the lead character fainting into the distressed arms of his lady companion. We laughed frequently at the now outdated cinematography of the film - if Hitchcock saw into the future of his film's impact, he'd be aghast.

The lecture today talked primarily about camera - angles, shot types, depth of field, 'Line of Interest' and so on. The last mentioned element there - line of interest, was an interesting one. I didn't know about it, yet heard Andy Joule bring up something relating to it during the presentation on Tuesday. "Don't cross the line" - so I recall. I threw my hand up and mentioned this to Jon, he asked "Do you know what he meant by that?" "Nope." Andy wasn't referring to the deadline, he already made that point very clear. It was relation to our 30 second Animation project.

'Line of Interest' refers to, for example, a line between characters in dialogue (where the camera if facing), path along which the actor is moving, direction in which the subject is looking etc. One point that the slide mentioned is the 'key principle of montage is to AVOID crossing the line'. I sort of see now - granted I swear I've spotted one or two directors break this rule before. I guess it would happen.