saturday shoot.

longtake shoot.

I think it helped more than anything that our group really planned out what we wanted to do. On the thursday that we had half the class to plan for our idea, we really came up with the interesting idea of the 'magic ten' the concept ended up being easy to put together, and quick and funny. We planned it out so that we all brought various costumes and props that put together out little film perfectly.


on the day of the shoot it was hot and humid but it didn't really slow us down at all.. it took us a little longer than expected to get our tent up and ready but we got it together with just enough time left to rehearse a couple times. We knew that our idea was quick and would probably be around a minutes, but the first time we ran it it was only a tiny bit longer than needed, which was nice because then all we needed to do was speed up some of the actions and it was exactly the length we needed and we portrayed all that we wanted to. Great appreciation goes out to our actors too!! They were wearing big heavy costumes in a thick material AND running around in the heat... but it all worked out, they didn't complain and it looked so awesome. We finished just in time and cleaned up and went off to process..

processing was nerveracking especially because i was the one putting our film in the developer and all that.. i was nervous i would do something that would fuck it up but it all turned out well... when we pulled it out of the fix andre looked at it and said it looked perfect and that was a sigh of relief... that just made the whole day seem so fun that we could get all that accomplish and it turned out well.. we were the first ones finished so we were also the first ones to transfer it to video.. and it looked hilarious, i can't wait to see the inverse and watch it again... i'm just bummed we really didn't get to see other people's but i'm sure we will.. i had to run at 4pm to go to work so i'm guessing other people got to stay and watch some.

I couldn't help but think about that guy andre told us about who went to some retreat to do stuff with his film and ended up processing it in a dark barn where a dog tried to eat his film and played tug of war with it.. i can only imagine what that guy was thinking... i'd be freaking out, i was nervous enough just doign ours in OUR condition.. can't imagine dirt and hay everything and a jerk of a dog... and i was surprised to see how much film we had for just one minute, and im guessing that that dude was processing a lot more...

for the most part, i think we all worked together really well and had good help. we knew what we were doing, did it, and got to watch the finished product which was rewarding. at the beginning of the semester i started dreading coming to do classwork on a saturday all day.. but it ended up being a lot of fun and it was probably one of my favorite excersizes we've done. i liked working with the bolex camera too.