It has been over a week since my last post but life has been absolutely crazy! I have had very little time to myself but it is a good problem to have. Everyone always says the movie business is, hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait; but, this week it just seems like it has been hurry up.
Sunday and Monday we shot our Continuity films for our third movie. I was super excited about my idea, it was simple but it would use time wisely which was the goal of the project. Let me tell you how our shooting days work, we have four people in our crew. Each person gets to direct their own movie so our Sunday/Monday is broken into four 5 hour time slots for shooting. I directed my film Sunday morning at my apartment. I thought that the shoot went extremely well and was very excited to see the film after it got processed. However, we learnt (right after my shoot) that we had a defective lens and therefore, everything shot with that lens was out of focus.
I edited the footage I had even though I would say 95% of it was out of focus. When I showed my film to the class I was extremely surprised when I got positive feedback from my directing instructor. He said that even though everything was completely out of focus that he could still see my story and he thought that I had taken his notes from the first film and really applied them to my movie. He was also very impressed with my actors and I would have to agree. I thought that both gave me very good performances. The interesting part about my film is that only shots of hands are in focus; therefore, my instructor said that I should re work some things, add in some sound and then he thought that I could have a really artsy film. I am now working on implementing these changes and I will post the link to the video once this is done.
The other exciting part of this week was editing my production workshop that I shot last Saturday. We had that stupid lens again so some shots are out of focus but I just had a lot of fun editing it. It was the first real test of my editing skills since being here and as always there are always going to be things that you want to fix but in general I am very happy with it. If you haven't seen it check out the link! http://vimeo.com/25536666 I warn you, at the end there is sound.
We had a writing class this week that I think was the most helpful class we have had thus far. We just did a writing exercise to help us develop our ideas for our two upcoming films and originally I was very stuck but after completing the exercise I have concepts for both. I have never thought of myself as a writer but I really enjoyed coming up with these two very different ideas.
Today we shot my first idea which was for a music film which is just our footage but to music. I think it went really well, it was a crazy but fun shoot. I am editing it this weekend and I can't wait to show people!! I also worked on a classmates shoot today and it was crazy! I am excited to see how it turns out because I think the shots were cool but I have no idea what it is about really and I was there! So we will see.
Oh, I almost forgot! Thursday I went to the Universal backlot again and we shot another production workshop on the European set this time. It was an awesome set (Pirates 4 was shot mainly there when on land and not in a jungle) that had a lot of different alleyways and if you are my friend on Facebook that is where my profile picture was taken.
Other then that, I went out a couple nights this week. Last night I went to a movie at the LA filmfest called Mamitas, that was directed by my camera class instructor named Nick Ozeki. It was a pretty good movie, it isn't my favourite genre but I thought stylistically it was cool. I haven't decided if I liked the main guy yet but the main girl was great! I would love to work with her on a film. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised because it was Nick's first feature film.
It is only 10:26pm but I have another long day of shooting tomorrow (I had around 12 hours today) and I need to get lots of sleep or I will not be able to function. I am excited though because we are shooting on Hollywood Blvd.
Have a great week everyone!
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