During my first semester in the Film School we had a Production Management class. In it we were required to create a UPM kit. Shopping for these items brought back grade school memories. Here's what we had to pickup: One portable file box or satchel - the UPM kit One...
Video Production
Who Produces What?
Since thesis films have started, there's been some confusion as to what the difference is between the Unit Production Manager (UPM) and Second Assistant Director (Second AD), both first year jobs. On F3s, there was only a Second AD and everything seemed to work out...
Friday Night Dailies
Just got back from watching the dailies from the first show I worked on. Everyone that works on the show is required to attend, no matter what their position, mainly so we can associate what happened on set and how everything was set up with what the final picture...
How to Make a Documentary on Cubicles
Editing is going a lot quicker than I imagined. I just finished a rough cut that I'm pretty happy with yesterday, and I got some great feedback from the editing teacher. I realized I never finished recounting the epic Spring Break Documentary Road Trip or went into...
So Much for the Day Off
Within about an hour of this morning's post, I get a phone call from the UPM of the other thesis film that's been shooting since last Thursday asking if I'd like to be an extra because a bunch of their extras didn't show. "Suuure" (I was also kind of hungry and wanted...
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...
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...
5 Ways To Make Video Look Like Film
So you wonder why your home movies and YouTube masterpieces don't quite have the same production value as say, SNL's Lazy Sunday. Well the people that made that get paid to do it, so I would hope it looks good. But there's some tricks you can do to liven up your...
The F2s
The F2s are officially done. Basically it was a short exercise to get us used to working with film. The entire crew was from the first year class, so this time we got to do all the fun jobs like directing, cinematographer, production designer, etc. It was a short,...