Our film class actually started around August 23. The Concord shoot happened on a Saturday, Oct 04. As I mentioned in the previous post, we went through a process of story development and script writing to actually get to the first shooting day for our film class project. This included a few weeks of introduction lectures and some required reading in our text. I shot way too many still photos on the day of the shoot, to post here. Last night I remembered that I created a slide show out of these for the team. I’ll post it below. It’s the most efficient way to show a large group of photos.
What I remember the most about this video shoot is that we were on location for about 9 hours. We arrived before 8:00 AM and wrapped up the day and loaded the gear around 5:30PM. It was a good thing it was October or we would have been sun burned. The next day, Sunday, we would fly to the Czech Republic, but that is a story for another post. Enjoy the slide show.
Concord Video Shoot from Jim Walker on Vimeo.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Film Class
In August, Sandra and I enrolled in a film making course at Pellissippi State Technical Community College. The course was called Guerrilla Film-making and as the name implied dealt with making movies that were not funded productions. Our text was even titled DIY Film Making. Sandra and I are not exactly newbies when it comes to film making. We have been, and still are, working on a documentary/biography project (more on that later). However, the more we learned the more we realized how much there was to learn. Plus, we thought it would help our film project to work on the class projects with a team. Also, we hoped to meet some additional film makers that might lead to future collaborations. Oh yea, and learning more about something you love together made for an interesting regularly scheduled date night.
Our first project was a story was about a homeless man who hops off of a train and walks along until he meets a little girl who was looking for some pennies that she had placed on the track. We went through the process of pitching the story, writing a script, creating a shooting script and shot list. We scheduled our first shoot out at the old Concord Village near Farragut. Sandra was the shot list supervisor, and I was the still photographer and technical advisor. Here are some of the stills from the first shooting day.
Pennies on the track
Audio Field Mixer
Prof Paul (hat) giving instruction on using a boom mic.
Prof Paul using the reflector to bounce some light in the actor’s face.
Speeding train roars by during on-set lunch break.
Sandra closely monitoring the shot list.
Our first project was a story was about a homeless man who hops off of a train and walks along until he meets a little girl who was looking for some pennies that she had placed on the track. We went through the process of pitching the story, writing a script, creating a shooting script and shot list. We scheduled our first shoot out at the old Concord Village near Farragut. Sandra was the shot list supervisor, and I was the still photographer and technical advisor. Here are some of the stills from the first shooting day.
Pennies on the track
Audio Field Mixer
Prof Paul (hat) giving instruction on using a boom mic.
Prof Paul using the reflector to bounce some light in the actor’s face.
Speeding train roars by during on-set lunch break.
Sandra closely monitoring the shot list.
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