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. [...]
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 [...]