I left for the Film School Thursday night at 11 and didn't come home until 6pm this afternoon, thus surviving my first Film School sleep over. It wasn't that I had procrastinated working on Cubicles, I just got into the editing zone and wanted to get as much done as...
Film School
Film School History is Made
For thesis films we get three days of shooting. The original plan for the thesis I was working on was to shoot the final scene today, but it would have only been half a day since the actors had to leave by noon. Instead, we finished early last night so the decision...
Tech Scout
Continuing with the Art Directing pre-production for my first thesis film, I went with some of the main crew members the other night to check out a location we were shooting at to see what kind of props we would need to get. Luckily, not that many. The Director wants...
Director’s Prep
The Director's Prep was a lot shorter and painless than people had made it out to be (maybe because this is a fairly simple film). On the administrative side, the Head of Production, Cinematography, Screenwriting, and Editing teachers attended. Crew wise, it was the...
First Director’s Prep
Just finished preparing for the Production Design aspect of the Thesis film this weekend. I'm a NY Times Sunday subscriber, so basically I've been saving all the NY Times Magazines knowing down the line they'll come in handy for reasons like this. So preparing was...
Jumping Above the Line
With Thesis films right around the corner, I'm about to begin my first job in an ATL position - Art Director (a job that I didn't realize was ATL). Basically I assist the Production Designer with whatever they need. The film I'm working on is pretty contemporary - no...
More Bits of Interestingness
There's been a lot of talk about the RED camera, and I've been kind of skeptical of it, but this sample clip from a film shot by Peter Jackson looks pretty amazing (via FreshDV). Supposedly the Film School is supposed to be ordering some, but I'm sure by the time that...
Documentary Tools 2.0
I'm a big Web 2.0 fan, so I unsurprisingly relied heavily on various tools to aid in research, notetaking, and organization to manage filmming the Cubicle Documentary. Here's a list of some of the tools that greatly helped me out, and others that I tried but didn't...
On the Road Again
Some back story: So the other two members in the Doc group are focusing on the Patriot Guard and Celebrity Impersonators, while I'm doing Cubicles. The Patriot Guard is a group of motorcyclists that go to the funerals of Iraq soldiers per the family's request to...