Hi all. I promise that there will be a Film Fest Friday this week. It's currently residing at the end of this post. But before that, a little bit about my day:
Today I had a film shoot. I'm currently producing various video segments and faculty interviews for an orientation week here at school. But as fun (and insane) as producing is, I finally got to live according to my true calling: cinematography. Yes, for the entire afternoon I peered over the shoulder of my camera operator, setting up shots, arranging lighting and the like. And it was fantastic. I wasn't able to do quite everything I wanted with the scenes we were shooting, but I still had an excellent time and look forward to doing more work in the future.
So, anyway, that's what I spent my afternoon doing.
On to Film Fest Friday. Today I return to classic Walt Disney cartoons with "The Whalers", a short I discovered recently in which Mickey, Donald, and Goofy try their best to catch a whale. Do they succeed? Watch and find out:
Okay, I gotta go now. I've got a lot of film work to do tonight.
Thanks for stopping by,
T.H. Excellence
Showing posts with label film shoot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film shoot. Show all posts
May 09, 2008
March 02, 2008
A New Chapter
I'm a filmmaker, which means I make films. Or, I'm supposed to be making films. Turns out that I don't have to much to show after my first semester of film school. While enrolled I worked on a grand total of two films, and both were done very cheaply with a HandiCam.Fortunately, that's starting to change. Several weeks ago I directed a mock interview, which was simple, but nevertheless gave me experience. Even better, I just wrapped up my first weekend of assistant directing on a short film being directed by a friend of mine at school. And the next two weekends are booked with film gigs as well. Plus I'm hoping to apply for the position of lead film/photography person for an orientation event at school next summer as well as some crew positions on a TV show put on here at school.
Wow, that's a lot.
Hopefully that will get me experience.
That's a wrap.
T.H. Excellence
October 11, 2007
A Mini Film Shoot and PhotoBlog!
Lucky for you all this post is a double-feature, one part of which is a PhotoBlog. The other is a fun little experience I had today. So enough talk - on with the show.
The first part of this post is going to take a little bit of explaining. Every freshman at school has to take this eight-week class called First Year Seminar, which is basically just to acclimate you to college and to your major. Since today marked the eighth week, the professor decided that we should do something fun. Being that we're all film geeks, our idea of fun is doing film shoots, so we divided up into groups of five (with my group being the exception of four) and went of to do our respective filming. My group decided to shoot a sort of endorsement for Ticonderoga pencils and how you can use them for anything (which is really just a big ploy). In the video someone is trying to pick the lock on a car door with a paper clip and is failing. Suddenly a hand comes into the frame with a pencil. The carjacker uses the pencil on the lock, and the lock opens immediately.
Unfortunately, since we shot it with the school's equipment, the school owns the copyright and thus I'm not allowed to post the completed project (which I don't even have because the director decided to do the editing) on this blog. So to console your broken hearts, I've included some shots that I took with my camera, which means I own the copyright.
What you see here is a good portion of the class headed over to the ER (that's stands for "Equipment Room") to check out the necessary equipment.
This pic has nothing to do with the shoot. I just took it while everyone else was checking out equipment.
So this was my film crew. The guy in the background was the director/producer/anything else on the set that has any real authority.
Again that's authority man on the right. The girl on the left served as the camera-woman.
The third random person you're seeing in these shots was the hand in the frame with the pencil.
This is when I got attacked by the mic.
And that's me. In case you're wondering, I played the carjacker... breaking into my own car.
Okay, enough of that. On with the PhotoBlog. That's what you really came to see anyway.
Don't know why but I really liked this shot.
Okay, little story here from a couple days ago. I'm walking towards the cafeteria with the intents of having dinner when I happen across a friend of mine on the phone. I tell her that I'm going to dinner and ask her if she's had dinner and if not then does she want to tag along. She says that no, she hasn't had dinner and would like to come but has to finish her phone call, so I sat down to wait. Photographic nerd that I am, I immediately pulled out my camera and started snapping pics. You now know the backstory of the next several shots.
So by now my friend's finished her phone call but is waiting for a friend of hers to get out of class so we can all go eat together. That being the case, we decided to wait by the cafeteria. I took a couple pictures to bide time.
See that shadow on the ground? That's my friend's shadow.
She kept trying to keep it out of frame, but apparently she didn't quite make it.
Okay, so the next series of pics are from that night after dinner. Some of them are a little blurry. Apparently I was taking pictures quicker than I thought.
This fountain looks amazing at night.
Okay, so now we're up to speed with today. All these pictures were taken either before my film shoot or after dinner.
I love fall.
I think I need to get off campus. I'm starting to run out of things to photograph.
And cut! That's a wrap.
Okay, that brings this post to a close. I need to get to bed.
Take care, y'all
T.H. Excellence
The first part of this post is going to take a little bit of explaining. Every freshman at school has to take this eight-week class called First Year Seminar, which is basically just to acclimate you to college and to your major. Since today marked the eighth week, the professor decided that we should do something fun. Being that we're all film geeks, our idea of fun is doing film shoots, so we divided up into groups of five (with my group being the exception of four) and went of to do our respective filming. My group decided to shoot a sort of endorsement for Ticonderoga pencils and how you can use them for anything (which is really just a big ploy). In the video someone is trying to pick the lock on a car door with a paper clip and is failing. Suddenly a hand comes into the frame with a pencil. The carjacker uses the pencil on the lock, and the lock opens immediately.
Unfortunately, since we shot it with the school's equipment, the school owns the copyright and thus I'm not allowed to post the completed project (which I don't even have because the director decided to do the editing) on this blog. So to console your broken hearts, I've included some shots that I took with my camera, which means I own the copyright.
What you see here is a good portion of the class headed over to the ER (that's stands for "Equipment Room") to check out the necessary equipment.
This pic has nothing to do with the shoot. I just took it while everyone else was checking out equipment.
So this was my film crew. The guy in the background was the director/producer/anything else on the set that has any real authority. 
Again that's authority man on the right. The girl on the left served as the camera-woman.
The third random person you're seeing in these shots was the hand in the frame with the pencil.
This is when I got attacked by the mic.
And that's me. In case you're wondering, I played the carjacker... breaking into my own car.Okay, enough of that. On with the PhotoBlog. That's what you really came to see anyway.
Don't know why but I really liked this shot.
Okay, little story here from a couple days ago. I'm walking towards the cafeteria with the intents of having dinner when I happen across a friend of mine on the phone. I tell her that I'm going to dinner and ask her if she's had dinner and if not then does she want to tag along. She says that no, she hasn't had dinner and would like to come but has to finish her phone call, so I sat down to wait. Photographic nerd that I am, I immediately pulled out my camera and started snapping pics. You now know the backstory of the next several shots.
So by now my friend's finished her phone call but is waiting for a friend of hers to get out of class so we can all go eat together. That being the case, we decided to wait by the cafeteria. I took a couple pictures to bide time.
See that shadow on the ground? That's my friend's shadow.
She kept trying to keep it out of frame, but apparently she didn't quite make it.
Okay, so the next series of pics are from that night after dinner. Some of them are a little blurry. Apparently I was taking pictures quicker than I thought.
This fountain looks amazing at night.
Okay, so now we're up to speed with today. All these pictures were taken either before my film shoot or after dinner.
I love fall.
I think I need to get off campus. I'm starting to run out of things to photograph.
And cut! That's a wrap.
Okay, that brings this post to a close. I need to get to bed.
Take care, y'all
T.H. Excellence
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