by Joey Daoud | May 16, 2007 | Film School
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...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 29, 2007 | Video Production
Two days left on the last thesis show. This is another six day double – the Director of Photography gave up his film to DP and co-write this show. To my knowledge, this is the largest thesis production ever. It’s a sci-fi film with massive sets built on...
by Joey Daoud | May 30, 2008 | Video Production
Ten cans of film have been turned in after the longest producing job I’ve had yet – six days of summer thesis kick-off. You get three days to shoot your thesis film, or you can team up and double your resources as the DP and Director did here and shoot for...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 7, 2008 | Film School, Uncategorized
As I get ready to DP this Sunday by box building (for lights) and color temperature fretting, I decided to stop by one of the other sets that was filming today. I knew they were shooting in a park near downtown. What I didn’t know was this little park had a lost...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 12, 2008 | Cameras, Video Production
Yes, we got 91 set-ups ((A set-up is essentially a shot. Every time you move the camera, change lenses, change lighting, or film new action, that’s a new set-up.)) in 3 days. That’s about 30 a day. The 6 day show had 106 set-ups. Bottom line is we got a...
