Heyo!
It's been busy times for me for the last month or two, but finally I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel. In a good way ;). Soon winter holidays and total relaxation will be upon me. Except for the Protu's 2nd Winter Camp, to which I'm attending. But we're almost finished with that as well.
Our silent film project, which our crew started months ago, has been finished and publicly viewed. It was great and it got great feedback. Among the best, hands down.
We still have to do a report about making of the film and I'm looking into possibility of getting the flick on YouTube if my crew members don't mind. Its likely I also make a blog post about it. Soon.
Now we have another video project. This time it's significantly larger, more official and with an audio.
Those scripts we wrote that I mentioned a long time ago? We worked on them a lot and three indeed got chosen. Unfortunately mine wasn't among the chosen ones. In hindsight, probably because it would have been quite challenging to produce as a first proper film: it required the most extras (about twenty) and it had a church as the setting and there ain't too many of those around here (about one). But the drama would have suffered and it would have been one hell of a rewrite to make it work without them, as the core idea was about a priest holding a sermon. Nevertheless, I think it was a good story.
But every cloud has a silver lining: scriptwriters whose script got chosen have to work also as producers, as it is the most unwanted, but crucially important job around our education (nothing too artistic, mostly just organizing and stuff).
Those three that got chosen are now being made into film. I'm the cameraman in our black comedy project and it's the role that I most wanted. I tried my wings both as a director and as a editor in our silent film, and I liked it and succeeded in it, but the camera and cinematography were still a bit of a uncharted territory for me. But not for long. Of course I can't learn everything about cinematography during a shooting of a single film, but you gotta start somewhere.
Right now I'm working on a simple storyboard, that's likely to change a few times along the road, but is still vital for my success as a cameraman. Script is under some changes for the request of the director. Casting likely starts during or immediately after our winter holidays. Soon we will be doing location scouting (which I will be a part of, thankfully. I found out it's hard to design your camera angles when you don't know the layout of the environment). And so on. I'll probably tell you more about it soon.
Things are slowly starting. Then they stop. Then they start again, next year.
J.
I like folksy songs. I like Ray LaMontagne. Songs have too few animal protagonists these days...
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