New project

This time much like the fight scene, we are working with some one else's film and have to edit it. I have no problems with this except that in certain shots you can see the reflection of the camera man or when shooting from a different angle you can see the other camera operator. This may just be another obstacle for us to overcome, but still very annoying.

Lighting

When we visited Mole Richardson lighting company and to my surprise I was able to work a c-stand. Though we had gone over how to use a c-stand in class, only some of us were able to get hands on work with them. Now I know exactly how to use a c-stand and operate one this is on top of learning how to manipulate light to my advantage when filming by using shadows instead of lights. Much like I was told lighting is mostly taking away light.

Update

We are nearing the end of our film and have minimal amount of time left to edit though my thoughts on this week are mainly of how sleepy I'am but the film editing still needs some more time and we have to implement some more sounds to help the movie progress. My only concern is what if the audience doesn't grasp the story as I may have thought they would.

Loyola Marymount University

 In my visit to Loyola, I got a nice look at the equipment that pros use and was closer to a real set then I've ever been. Though some of the equipment looked fairly similar some left me puzzled as for the keyboard in the editing room as it was color coded an had some weird symbols on the keys. Not only that but going into the projector room where they were screening an old western movie at that time, though when looking at the way they worked I was at a loss as I could not tell how to work with any of these projector what anything meant, everything seem a little overwhelming and how much left I still have to learn about the industry.

Loyola Marymount University

 In my visit to Loyola, I got a nice look at the equipment that pros use and was closer to a real set then I've ever been. Though some of the equipment looked fairly similar some left me puzzled as for the keyboard in the editing room as it was color coded an had some weird symbols on the keys. Not only that but going into the projector room where they were screening an old western movie at that time, though when looking at the way they worked I was at a loss as I could not tell how to work with any of these projector what anything meant, everything seem a little overwhelming and how much left I still have to learn about the industry.

Directors and Cinematographers

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/09/3-thoughts-collaborative-relationship-between-dps-and-directors
 As we continue our projects in class we start to realize how much the director and cinematographer
go hand in hand. The link above will take you to an article that will go in depth with how the two should work together and how you should bring your own opinions to the other. I hope you find this as helpful as I did and I'll try to incorporate this into my own project.

This week

 This has had to be one of the more hectic weeks with the finalizing scripts and fighting for the camera of your liking. Though this week is a bit heated most of the hard work has been done and here comes the fun with finally getting to film with the new gear. Even with the ups and downs I have been able to some work well with my group and am starting to feel better about how this project will turn out.

For Honor

Though some of you may not be that into games, I think that the gaming industry is doing something right when they allow you to play their product early. By doing this it allows the game developers to work on bugs and glitches in the game while looking at community feed back. I was lucky enough to play For Honor earlier this week and I have to say that the core gameplay in itself is solid but connection errors and match making problems plague the alpha, but that is to be expected as a games pre released version.I sent in my feed back in hope that they get fixed by the full release but its good to know that the game developers are listening to you and try to make the game as good as possible.
http://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en-US/alpha/login.aspx

This Week

My group and I are well on are way to filing our first real big project as 11th graders, though we did have some set backs with the script. The film it self looks pretty good in my head but I'm a little worried about how we will be able to bring it all together though our group has seemed to turn things completely around. I'm feeling a little better about how the film will turn out after today it seems that it will  be good.

Alien and H. R. Giger

If you are a fan of the xenomorph or the Alien movies then you most know who H. R. Giger is, right? I mean he is only the creator of one of the most horrifying creatures to be shown on the big screen. The article I'm about to share goes into detail about H. R. Giger's design and motivations behind the xenomoprhs creation in all its gruesome glory. http://nofilmschool.com/2016/09/beauty-h-r-gigers-grotesque-xenomorph-monsters-alien Though the xenomoph had been a great achievement for H. R. Giger it is not one of his best works as he also design and hand painted the space jockey. Though H. R. Giger may be gone his horrifying creations bring chills done our spines to today.

New Project

Started to work on a new project with a group of class mates and I have to say this is gonna be tremendously harder then last year as we have a lot more creative freedom and our own work times as we are aloud to work outside of school. With this new creative freedom our films get to be more diverse in setting and time without having to use crappy filters to make it seem as if it is night. Even though this looks like a lot of work I'm looking forward to seeing the final product of this project, if it goes as I planned.

Gore

Though I doubt that I'll be aloud to do any of this I'd still like to tell you a little bit about some gore techniques. Most of them are low budget to so any of us could get our hands on this stuff and make some nice gore effects. These effects consist of blood and lots of it. I won't go through all the steps though you can check them out here [http://nofilmschool.com/2016/08/how-create-convincing-practical-effects-your-indie-gore] and most of the material to make all that nice blood are pretty cheap and could be made in large quantities for longer scenes or just a good old fashion massacre.  It ain't just blood there are also other make up instructions in there like how to make a silicone mold of your hand for a amputation scene, this could make a film much more gory. This may or may not be because its getting close to Halloween.

Update

While working on the same project I have to say that it's really hard matching your voice with the scene. This makes it a little bit harder to work with the actual scene as I tend to take a little bit more time trying to sync my voice with the video. Other then that the new project has started and I have yet to think of a good story.

Good news and Bad news

After the unfortunate death of Gene Wilder, Warner Brothers and AMC both will be playing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory plus Blazing Saddles. Now i was never a really big fan of Willy Wonka but i was a fan of Blazing Saddle, Gene Wilder played a important role in both of these films but I preferred his role in Blazing Saddle as for the humor aspect of the film. This stings a little that Gene had died but now that Im able to watch these films in theater is a great thing. This is the scene that my dad showed em before I ended watching the film, my favorite scene.

Something New

After a week or so of learning about sounds we get to try out what we learned. Manly editing audio to match what you want or whats happening in the scene. We get to use this on a fight scene where to kids fight and so far i find it fun messing with audio clips and sound effects other then that, I'm looking forward using those new cameras.

PowerVision Egg Drone

PowerVision has created a drone in the shape of an egg which I think is a very interesting design. The drone brings 4k visuals with retractable legs so nothing will be in the shot, the drone seems to be very mobile and looks as if it can bring a birds eye view fairly easy. The drone also has a very smooth landing that keeps the drone from being damaged.

The Birth of  a Nation has been surround with controversy with Nate Parker, playing Nat Turner in the film, being accused of rape while being a student at Penn State University. This kind of attention made an AFI theater cancel its screening all together.