Well as the title says, you can’t win them all. That’s a lesson I kinda learned when I did an assignment for cinematography this past week. We were told to take 5-7 photos of either lost and found or mistaken identity and to pick some interesting angles or compositions. This did not go as I would have hoped for various reasons. I didn’t really have a set story but loosely these photos are a guy get lost in the library and finds his group member.
Can you make an abstract idea into a story? This was something posed to my production class this past week in an effort to understand the process of visualizing/externalizing concepts. As filmmakers, we often take the smallest of ideas and turn them into visual stories. I partnered up with one of my classmates to shoot 3 photos that were supposed to convey an abstract emotion in a sequence. Check the photos and see if you can guess what we were going for.
Hello everyone, did you have enjoyable weekend? It’s been a pretty busy one for me as film school has really started to pick up. In an effort to catalog my time there (and satisfy a class requirement), I’m gonna be posting interesting things under the tag Film School Files. And what better way to start then by talking about the project I participated in this weekend. Loyola Marymount hosts something called 10:1 Film Rush for the incoming grad students, where we are put into crews, given three words to choose from, and 10 hours the following day to shoot, edit, and screen the movie.