Things are getting stressful- tomorrow we are filming our experimental projects, and I have no idea how it will go. I still only know so little and our teachers expect so much- I'm just focusing as hard as I can, and seeing how everything goes. At one point, I told my screenwriting teacher that I had ideas, but was worried about not having good ones, and he replied, "bring us your ideas and we'll make them good."
Despite all of the craziness, I am learning a lot. In production, we learned about how to set up lighting, and practiced portraying different moods with standard light kits. We also had composition practice, where the program directors gave us sheets up paper with actions and shot lists, and we had to go film them. I ended up acting a lot, which resulted in my attempts to cry while sitting on a bench, and hitting my head on my bunk bed. Some of our shots were great, others were crap, but I'm beginning to understand the camera a bit more.
We also had a lecture on things we need to organize in pre production, which scared the crap out of all of us. There is SO MUCH that needs to be done before filming days- location scouting, finding actors, crew meetings, shot lists, set lists, scene planning, scheduling, and so much more.
This is a photo of some notes I took today. This is me taking half of a scene one of last year's cherubs wrote, and I blocked out where the cameras would go. This would be one camera that changes locations, not five cameras.
Tonight we watched Never Cry Wolf. Now, i'm going to bed- early rise tomorrow to film the experimental films. I hope all is going well for you all!
-Molly
dont you mean pre=productoin?
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You're right- thanks for catching that.... I changed it. Not thinking when I wrote it. It was from the movie with the girl who dated a teacher.
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