First we had a guest lecturer, Evan Smith. He talked about his work in his production company, which he describes as “fun corporate stuff”. He also talked about his studying life from before, his interests in filming, and how he came to where he is now.They also showed a couple of clips from a web series, “A Little More Oliver Clark”, starring a musical comedian named Oliver Clark (coincidentally my name as well). He also showed us other web series he has worked on, including “playground politics”.
Evan also gave us some advise about production and filming, needing multiple takes to deal with camera movements and lighting, and also gave a good tip about having the person’s lines underneath the camera to help them remember.
After Evan’s lecture, our groups were told to meet together to discuss script deadlines, locations, back-up locations, casting call dates and outlining key characters, and getting started on our 200 word personal bios. However, we only had 30 minutes left of class so little was accomplished. Luckily we also had an out-of-class meeting to think through these things.