I finished filming Fantasma. That was a lot of work. I need to take a nap now. and relax with some japanese death poetry.
my robe
grows heavy
with the scent of blossoms
the sun goes down
behind the mountain peaks
and bells ring
spring has come-
a nameless mountain
wrapped in mist
Friday, March 22, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Fantasma Stills
So the last weekend of shooting is upon us. I've spent about 12 hours a day for a week in the soundstage making/decorating the set. My friend morgan came and helped make all the trees, meg's been making a full cast of costumes, and I individually cut, painted, stapled and hot-glued all the leaves onto the trees. And you know what IT WAS WORTH IT. LOOK AT THESE PRODUCTION PHOTOS.
Walt and Lillian played by Caspian and Agnes
Texting and Starbucks between takes
Franc arrives to set in a well-timed heavenly snow.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
film education
After spending 4 years in a film program that I've been frustrated by I came up with this.
This school needs to be a creative atmosphere.
suggestions for how to achieve this:
1) Humble attitudes should be promoted from the teachers to the students. No more elitism because of the small size of the program.
2) Teachers should be passionate about helping young people discover themselves as artists and have come up with techniques to encourage personal investigation of artistic ethics/style.
3) Teachers need to spend more time developing lesson plans, critiques thought up on the spot and witty comments are not enough any more. Killing time with endless reviews should not be part of the class.
4)Teachers need to inspire hope in the students. When a teacher makes bitter jokes about the industry it scares the students and makes them more competitive. Teachers should be working to show students that if they really believe in what they're doing, then that is what matters. If the student doesn't believe in their work then the teachers need to have a way to help them push themselves creatively to find something that does work.
5)Teachers need to spend more time explaining how to work within the scope of a small budget. Students should not be awarded for making a more complicated and expensive film, but one that was carefully created to creatively use resources.
6) Don't gloss over technical information. Cinematography class needs to be taught in a way that can be understood. There needs to be more training in editing that is mandatory. Students are overwhelmed by uploading footage, codecs, and transcoding, this needs to be addressed in depth.
Maybe I'll print this out and give it to the teachers at my review.
This school needs to be a creative atmosphere.
suggestions for how to achieve this:
1) Humble attitudes should be promoted from the teachers to the students. No more elitism because of the small size of the program.
2) Teachers should be passionate about helping young people discover themselves as artists and have come up with techniques to encourage personal investigation of artistic ethics/style.
3) Teachers need to spend more time developing lesson plans, critiques thought up on the spot and witty comments are not enough any more. Killing time with endless reviews should not be part of the class.
4)Teachers need to inspire hope in the students. When a teacher makes bitter jokes about the industry it scares the students and makes them more competitive. Teachers should be working to show students that if they really believe in what they're doing, then that is what matters. If the student doesn't believe in their work then the teachers need to have a way to help them push themselves creatively to find something that does work.
5)Teachers need to spend more time explaining how to work within the scope of a small budget. Students should not be awarded for making a more complicated and expensive film, but one that was carefully created to creatively use resources.
6) Don't gloss over technical information. Cinematography class needs to be taught in a way that can be understood. There needs to be more training in editing that is mandatory. Students are overwhelmed by uploading footage, codecs, and transcoding, this needs to be addressed in depth.
Maybe I'll print this out and give it to the teachers at my review.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Name of the movie?
currently trying to come up with a good name for the new movie. I was considering, a long time ago, naming it Walt. But that's not good. Fantasia is my favorite disney movie, and since this movie is the re-working of Disney mythology a possible idea is to name it a spoof of Fantasia. Perhaps Fantasma. or Phasmatis. I dunno, still gotta while to think about this one.
Other stuff that rules:
Marc Bolan. T rex. 20th century boy. David Bowie/Marc Bolan in pictures together.
I will channel them.
Other stuff that rules:
Marc Bolan. T rex. 20th century boy. David Bowie/Marc Bolan in pictures together.
I will channel them.
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