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My Life For The Next Two Years

Dec 26, 2006 |

I know I poorly explained the film projects we make during our film school experience before, but I think I have a better idea of how everything fits into the next two years (my class, the first year BFAs, graduate Fall 2008). F1 - Fall 06 - These are done, as I've...

The F1 Screening (And My Blunder Got Bigger)

Dec 20, 2006 |

We had our F1 screening Thursday night at the film school, in the glamor lacking Mix A theater (the space wasn't designed to be a theater, so the rows are tightly layered, creating one of the most horrible places to sit for prolonged periods of time). The program was...

This Might Have Been Useful A Month Ago

Dec 11, 2006 | ,

Our F1s were shot with a Canon XL1, along with the rest of our weekend projects. It's always been called a prosumer camera, and now we have a better idea as to why. >>Geek Speak Warning The main reason is a lack to set focus. The standard XL1 lens has auto-focus...

The Picture is Locked…

Dec 10, 2006 |

...and I haven't nearly posted all I wanted to about F1s. To the invisible reader: force all your emotion into asking questions in comments about what I should explain, Patrick Swayze style. We actually locked last week, I just never got around to posting it. What is...

I Guess The Last Post Was Right

Dec 2, 2006 |

Just got back from a 15 hour day as Script Supervisor (I'm beginning to toss the anonymity to the wind). We were shooting in a food store while they were still open for business, so we had to work around the patrons, which wasn't too bad. However, when one woman saw...

Lights, Camera, Action…and Marker, Slate, Sound…

Nov 30, 2006 |

Ask someone to picture how a movie set works and images of a Cecil B. DeMille type director with a paperboy hat and sweater vest shouting "lights...camera...action" through a megaphone will probably generate. Close, but not quite. A Google/Wikipedia search didn't...

That’s Just Crazy Talk

Nov 16, 2006 |

A nice list of idea killers. Probably intended for business folk, but it all applies in the writer's room. Though I guess laughter would be good if you're writing a comedy. Berkun blog >> Idea killers: ways to stop ideas

A Bigger Beast

Nov 16, 2006 |

So it wasn't the same day, but it's a shorter period than before. I'm getting better. So onto the F3s, the next beast to conquer. The F3s are the first projects shot on film (okay, the F2s are shot on film but they have a lot of restrictions and no one talks about...

So About Those Rules

Nov 15, 2006 |

I'll just ignore the fact that I haven't posted in a while and jump right into the rules. As mentioned before, all weekend projects have had time restrictions, and also as mentioned before, they've generally been tossed to the wind (see rule number one). But this time...