The storm has calmed. Last week really was the perfect storm, as my friend Justin and I described it ((I wanted to post the clip from The Office when Pam needs Michael to sign three forms that fall on the same day every few months, thus creating her perfect storm....
Film School
F3 Explained
In looking at past posts, I realized I never laid out what exactly an F3 is, the project that has and will be taking my attention and life for the next few months. The F stands for Filmmaking. The F1 was our little digital short, the F2 the half day film exercise, and...
Crew Drills – A Practice Run
For the past three days at The Film School we've been having Crew Drills. Crew Drills are basically a two hour run through of an F3 set. That's enough time to set up, get a shot or two, and then take everything down for the next show. It accomplishes a few things. The...
Back to School
Vacation is over. Today is the first day of fall semester. There's a pizza mixer at noon so my class, now 2nd Years, can meet the 1st years, the class that will be crewing our films. Here's a lineup of the classes we'll be taking: Filmmaking 3 Screenwriting 2 Advanced...
So Long XL1…
A few hours ago (3pm) I got a phone call from Keith, head of the Equipment Room. Keith: "I need the camera back." Me: "Today?" Keith: "Yeah, by four. No, like a quarter to four, I have to do some paperwork with it. If I don't get it back today I have to file a police...
19 Hours at the Film School
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 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...
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...
What We Watch
Each semester we have a Film Genres class which is basically a screening of a film selected by a different faculty member each week. The following is an incomplete list of the films we watched (I can't remember all the films) with some links to the complete film,...