Saturday I recruited some friends to help shoot my film. I’m quite new to the process but it was funny to see how absolutely alien it is to most people. Their comments ranged from the inquisitive: “Why are you shooting all out of order?”, to the inspired: “What if you pull into focus as I [...]
So here’s a little graphic I made about screenplay structure. This is based on what I’ve absorbed from books, classes, and writing my own. I don’t take credit for any of the ideas presented here, I just thought It’d be fun to mash them all together in a graphical way. This file is fully editable [...]
So everything I’ve read and heard about D.W. Griffith holds that he was an unmitigated genius who did more for the art of cinema than anyone has ever done for anything ever, and other such superlatives. Oh, and he was also mind-blowingly racist. Honest critique is supposed to separate the art from the artist [...]
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Today we were drilled on the importance of fully planning our shots. Some sort of system for translating a script is absolutely necessary. The traditional method is: Script –> storyboard –> shot list –> shooting order. This is especially useful for me to hear, as my first impulse is to grab the camera and start [...]
Today was pretty exciting: we were given our Super 8 cameras. We got a crash course on their operation and spent the rest of the day doing exposure tests. We don’t get our film cartridges until next week but I’m kind of tempted to buy one on my own to play around with this weekend.
By two very quotable gay men. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless. ~Oscar Wilde For Raphael, the creating of a work of art is a bright spring day in the campagna: for me, it is the tramontana howling down the valley ~Michelangelo Buonarrotti
In class today I learned: Porn is the first thing made with any new technology. ’80s German Avant-garde synthesizer music is horrible Some people haven’t seen Citizen Kane. Rosebud!
So far we’ve had class sessions on editing and screenwriting. It’s all very theoretical and lecture-y at this point, and I expect that will continue for the first few weeks. They’re having us dissect movie shot structure and screenplays. I have to decide which movie idea to develop for the feature length screenplay: the [...]
Hello, internets. Here’s another fucking blog. I’ll be sharing thoughts and insights as I progress through the program at Seattle Film Institute. I’m also a working graphic designer, so I may end up talking about that as well. I’m also one of those smart guys who knows a lot of stuff and has original thoughts [...]