On 20 March, an urgent meeting with the eighty odd cohort was held to explain the new circumstances and the way forward. Effective almost immediately, and certainly within two weeks at most. On 19 March, GFS Faculty took the very difficult decision to halt all face to face classes and access to cameras and lights. There was a real buzz of excitement about the projects with some ambitious plans on the table. Ideas had just been pitched, projects selected and teams formed. The second year students were right on the brink of starting to produce their major assignment – eight sixty-second television commercials (TVCs). At the time, like most film schools, GFS had few fully online courses. In the first weeks of March staff at Griffith Film School (GFS) listened closely to every announcement from the Federal Government, anticipating that universities would soon be declared closed. Teaching cinematography online in the time of COVID-19, with Cine Tracer and Griffith Film School – by Erika Addis and Ben CotgroveĪ student-created, neo-noir scene in Cine Tracer – DOP Jason MorrisĮA – I’ll remember March 2020 forever, as the moment when the virus COVID-19 changed my professional teaching practice and workplace, virtually overnight.
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