Web Series Watch

  Web Series Watch: A  blog where I discover, describe and critique web series Conditions: free to stream via legal means, and created for the web, but not under the guise of streaming sights such as Netflix or Stan. Rostered On: the pilot.  I found…

Filming in hallways

Myself and and a classmate will be lighting and shooting the pick-ups of episode 1 of our web series Human Resources. Most of these pick up scenes feature two people talking as they walk down a hallway. On Wednesday, we scoped out some locations in…

Ideal Cast

The writers have now provided us with character portfolios. I thought it could be fun to “cast” these characters, suspending disbelief for a moment, to imagine we could attain any actors we desired. To make this more realistic to the making of Australian content, and…

The World of Ghastly Solutions

Here us what the writers provided as the “world” of our web series Ghastly Solutions otherwise know as Human Resources (I’m not quite sure which we are going for… they’re both good, ha ha) WORLD ‘An office complex which (technically) exists off the map, and off our…

Changing the vibe of a location

I read an article in the Guardian about the Messedamm underpass in Berlin. In the article it is described as the most widely used non landmark location in film. It’s distinctive orange pillars and circular lights give the location a distinctive futuristic look. What struck…

Costume

I volunteered to do costume, makeup and props for our teaser. I gathered together the props we needed by asking our group what they had and looking through my stuff. I also brought a lot of just in case things to the set, such as…

On screen depictions of the werewolf

Our first offical assignment working with the writers has been to make a teaser out of one of their pilot scripts. To get this teaser off the ground, our group decided to take on different production roles and to collaborate acting within our roles. I…

Peep Show: effective character perspective techniques

In class we have discussed techniques to give our audience insight into our protagonist Liz. Liz is a seemingly normal new employee at a company that is pretty much The Office meets True Blood. Some people in our group suggested vlogging as a good technique…

We all love Carl

  The writers have responded to our initial prompts and although I do not see too much cross over from our promps, I was pretty happy with the characters and the hint of the world they provided us. It seemed the rest of the class…

Which tools are best for the trade?

In class we had a discussion about how we wanted to film our webisodes. The question was: what kind of cameras should we use? Should we use the school’s broadcasting cameras or the DSLR cameras? I argued that although it is useful to learn to…