Production Constraints

The end of this working week saw a successful conclusion finally come about to the tiring problem we had been facing within our production group week after week. We finally decided that spending all our time looking for a location which yes, was integral to the story, instead of finding quality actors and developing our skills was too testing on our psyches and so it is with great sadness that we...

Producing content for online networks

In this week's tute, Seth sat down with my group members and I and brought up a rather interesting topic related to our K-Film: how does producing content for online networks differ from producing content for another medium, say a film?I've thought about this lately particularly in relation to the recent Careers Expo seminar we had on Wednesday where one of the course's graduates explained that his...

Team Meeting # 2

Ok, so no motto but we'll get there eventually. Today's meeting was really productive. I'm becoming more and more confident in my group's creative abilities as well as the prospect of us all having to go through this birthing process for our film over the next 8 weeks. The act of making a film is a daunting enough task in itself without you having to worry about whether or not your crew can perform...

Sydney Pollack - How to Direct

This week's interview with acclaimed director Sydney Pollack was extremely helpful to me as the director of our film as as I have previously mentioned, I have been researching the various directing methods and the role of a director on set. Pollack's methods are quite unusual. One of the first things he says is he asks all the crew to remove themselves from set. Then, he instructs his actors to "do...

Some famous people...

I've really been getting into this idea of finding out what exactly a director does on set. As I've mentioned numerous times before, I'm still kicking myself for not paying enough attention to the director's I worked with, save for when they yelled out to the crew "Alright, that's a wrap people. Break for lunch". So now I'm punishing myself by navigating the ever obnoxious system of google to see...

Edgar

I'm not normally a huge fan of bloody, gorey horror films but I think its the comical timing of Edgar Wright's films which get me giggling rather than the absurd, somewhat ludicrous, crass stories of pyscopathic killers in idyllic British countryside and zombies wandering London's streets. Since 1995, Edgar has been developing...

Air

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Script Selection - Team Choice

First team meeting today! Whoo! I feel like we need a motto or something. Maybe we can make one up this Friday in class. But for now, we were all very, very concentrated on choosing the right script for our group. It's not easy you know. When you have four very different minds who all have their own individual styles, likes and desires, the type of script that can be chosen by one person can be something...

Script Selection - My Choice

"Twas' the dawn of a new day when the scripts were all done. Not a word could be altered, not even a pun. The scriptwriters were sleeping all snug in their beds. In hopes that Saint Rogers would soothe their poor heads."Don't ask me where on earth that came from. My head is literally attempting right now to explode into a thousand tiny fragments. The reason for its delirium is due to the fact that...

Camera Notes

I said at the beginning of semester that I would try and be more creative within this online blogging environment particularly in the way of photos and images so I thought I would get my trusty Lumix out to capture our first "encounter" with the Sony cameras we are using for our short film.During the tute, Robin went over all...

How To Pick A Script

Faced with reading over 20 scripts before Monday's team meeting, I decided that since I had absolutely no idea how or where to start, I should consult my trusty Google search bar for some answers. Literally, all I did was type in "How to judge a good script" and I find this brilliant article by Charles Deemer, a participant on the judging panel of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's screenwriting...

Adam

Ever since I watched the little Australian short which went on to win big at the Academy Awards 6 years ago, I have been obsessed with Adam Elliot, the amazingly brilliant creator and visionary of some of Australia's best known animated films such as Harvey Krumpet (Oscar, 2004) and Mary and Max, his first feature film. I have...

Martin

I've worked on various sets before - features, telemovies, adverts and shorts - but never really used that opportunity to ask the director's what it was exactly that they did. From where I was standing, they sat in front of a tiny screen watching the scene unfold and then had some whispered conversations with the art director...