Tagged: update

BUILDING THE BARRICADE

Okay so I’m currently lost on how to approach the scouting. My first instinct when I read the gig scene was to shoot it in a dark secluded room, with minimal background and the only requirements we needed were a stage and lights. Now I feel like we need more than that, and luckily enough The John Curtain on the corner right next to building 57 has a pretty good relationship with the uni. It’s actually about to host a lot of Monday night gigs, and one of my friends has confirmed that it is part of their course to organize these weekly gigs. I think I have just found my solution to the band problem we were facing when discussing casting. If he is to be wrangling the night, then it will be easy for me to gain permission from not just the venue but actual bands playing that night for permission to film during their show. It would require a lot of planning, especially with which shots we will need and definitely need to be executed very fast as to not ruin the show, but otherwise I do believe that we have a set plan and venue. I’m probably going to ask James for his opinion on this, and if he has any tips for us to be shooting in such a public heavy scenario. It may just be a case of me carrying around a lot of location and media release forms.

Here’s too a hopeful start. Oh and by the way, my friends gig is scheduled May 23rd, so maybe it may be one of the last shots we take in our timeline. Right now I think we can definitely fit the bulk of shooting with week 10, but you never know with casting still technically unconfirmed. I guess this makes me a bad producer, but hey, this class is all about trying things out and learning the process, and so far I am definitely learning a few things I didn’t expect.

CASTLE ON A CLOUD

So what’s been going on since I uploaded all those assessments for this class. Well I think it is safe to say that I am definitely enjoying this class. It’s fun, enriching and currently I’m able to just work freely on a project that I am becoming more and more invested in. I haven’t truly made my own project in a while and now it feels like I get to express my artistic creativity and ideas like I wanted to do with this course. Now this post is a part of my journey through the class, or at least that what I interpret project brief 3 as. It’s a way for James to see my work ethic, and the processes I’ve been going through to get to the finished project, and I think I too want to know what’s going on as well. It’s difficult for me to just make so many things on the spot, especially a complete short film with actors, location, shotlists and a script. So I think this will be my starting post for this part of the class.

So in this installment I just want to outline my personal timeline with this project, or at least have my checklist outlined clearly for myself. We’ve already got the character breakdown perfect, and Tim is coming across great in all of the members heads, but now we have to figure out exactly what needs to be done to get to that final project.

checklist

This is my official breakdown of what I hopefully will be writing about. Not obviously in that order, because we all know we need a script before we do a shotlist, but its a good guide for me. But the first thing I want to do is go more into the research behind this project, specifically why the concept of Tim intrigues me so much. So in the next issue(?) blog piece thing I will be going through my reasons and research behind the fan culture aspect of this film.