My fourth week, my first project.
We are already in week four of our first semester. The time is flying by! We have been working on getting our first project together. All of our instructors have been preparing us for location scouting, casting calls and auditions, lighting, cameras, editing and screenwriting. It’s going to get crazy here pretty soon, but every moment I’m learning and having fun with it.
In the past two weeks we have been working on our ballistics editing project. This project is so much fun! We take scenes from a movie of our choice then splice it together with a song and create our own music video. We have to keep the music video in line with the same style of editing used by Walter Murch and many other great editors. It is a style of editing that has a unique pacing that keeps in time with the story. I describe it as continuity within continuity ( even though there is way more to it than that.)
This week I am focused mostly on casting, auditions and securing my location. I am also going to be fine tuning my script as much as possible so it is golden when my actors read for their audition. I am looking forward to what the actors will bring to this project and what improv. they can add to it. My project has so much freedom with improv. that I think if the actor is into it they could really have fun with that role. My other big thing this week is securing my crew for this shoot. It’s crazy because everything is up in the air as far as location, actors, schedules and equipment it makes it hard to secure a crew when you don’t have everything concrete. I guess nothing is ever concrete, you just work with what you got.
