Test Shoots and All

I just thought I’d leave a couple of test shoots here Here’s the first test shoot. Don’t worry, your audio’s not broken, I intentionally didn’t include sound in this one. This test was purely an experiment with cinematography, and method of filming. So, I used…

Scenes Three and Four

Some more photos! Because scenes three and four happen back to back chronologically, they were shot consecutively. It was all shot within my house. These chapters were a bit more challenging to shoot. Because the camera is so animated in these scenes, we had to…

Scene Two

Here are some photos! The second scene went mostly according to plan. I was kind of worried that getting a fire lit in a suburban backyard would be problematic, but it was actually the opposite. I liked the aesthetic that it added to my backyard….

The Second Pre-shoot

Scenes two to four were shot in Rowville, so we had to take another road trip back down. And because it was daytime, we had to wait until it was dark again before we started shooting. So, basically, the whole day was spent rearranging the…

Shooting Scene 1

This day, we actually shot shit. We got up at 5am to make sure that we could shoot the first scene at the cliff side in the sunrise. We only had about a half hour window before it got too bright, so we definitely had…

“At Least 200 Words Must be on Collaboration”

Oh man, where do I start? We all know that collaboration can be a tedious process. A lot of good can come out of it, and a lot of bad can come out of it. I guess, when I was working on this project, I…

The First Pre-shoot

So, this day was planned more for setting shit up, and making sure that everything was going to work for when we started, as the first location we were shooting in was all the way up in Cape Patterson. Overall, we spent a bit less…

FIRE

Recently, I bought a slow mo camera. I figured it would good to use for this project. I did a couple of test shots which I showed to my group, to which I received a positive response. When I wrote the script, I wanted to…

Gangster Genre

The crime/gangster genre is highly popular in Asian Cinema, especially Japanese and Chinese, with their organized crime groups, the Yakuza, and the Triads respectively. Known for the way that these films tend to blur the lines between good and evil, they have caused some controversy…

Music 2.0

Oh hey, I actually wrote music! When I wrote my previous blog post on music, in which I basically said that I may have to resort to using royalty free music in my project, I was under the impression that I my music skills were…