Blog Assignment #7

The Master Shot project is the first experience I have ever had with using previsualization materials. Now that I have used them once, I can’t see myself going to make any other film without creating storyboards, overheads and a shot list. They are extremely helpful with planning your movie and making your production process go a lot smoother. I am responsible for lighting so I created the overheads. The first set was a very rough draft, because I had not yet seen the storyboards or the shot list. After meeting with my group and checking out the previz materials they made I have created a new set of overheads. These are much more precise and congruent with our shots and scene. The most difficult part of preplanning was drawing the overheads without seeing the storyboards. Now that my group has all of our materials ready I am eager and excited to start production and get some hands-on experience with lighting.

Blog Assinment #6 Narrative Master Shot Sequence Previz

For the Narrative Master Shot Sequence I am in charge of lighting and also the Assistant Lead Director. Being a Gaffer, or Grip should be a lot of fun and I’m really looking forward to the experience. Our group met on Sunday and we discussed our ideas for where we could take this conversation. The setting we came up with is a secret society initiation ceremony, where two actors are tied to chairs, back to back. We are going for a creepy, ominous tone with a touch of dark humor. I wanted to use red and purple gels to help create the mood of the scene. I still haven’t seen the storyboards so I’m not sure exactly how its going to play out but I created a couple ROUGH overheads:

Blog #5 Reflection of vox pops and interview

Last Friday we shot our expert interview with one of the officers of Flicker. We ended up doing it in her office instead of the theater because we were unable to get permission to shoot in any of the theaters on campus. The office was fine though, it made for a nice shot with everything on and around her desk. The space was cramped with five of us in the tiny room, one huge boom mic, a tripod and a camera. I was so excited to finally be working on a real production and part of an actual crew! The vox pops were really fun to make too, it was thrilling talking to random people on campus. I have always been really curious about working with sound so I had a lot of fun with this project.

Interview Storyboard!

We plan to shoot our expert interview on Friday, February 8th. I think that Dallis is still working on getting an exact time for the meeting with the officers of Flicker. We want to interview them in a theater setting. Either in King, Kenan Auditorium, or Morton. Here's the storyboard: