Dailies Assignment 2

Welcome to video village, the place where all members of the film crew gather at the end of a day's hard work to view the dailies.  While this might look like the odds and ends of the world, it is a highly sophisticated place on set where all the most important data and information is stored and cataloged.

The Little Fat Girl

From Super-8 16mm film, to VHS and Mini-DV video to HD, in the last 30 years the tools of amateur filmmaking have grown up to introduce a new generation of future filmmakers.  Instead of scissors and splice tape, todays film professional now edits on a computer with Avid or Final Cut Pro -- and they are no longer alone.  The Digital Revolution is here and the future of cinema is the Little Fat Girl in all of us.

Iconic Imagery

The Spielberg Face is just one example of a trademark/signature iconic image in films.  In an era where so much of our experiences of the world are drawn from cinema, a great many of the strongest works of art are drawn from the world of cinema.

Dailies Assignment 1

As we approach the end of the first quarter and the production of your films, there are a number of things that you must complete before the end of the quarter.  Our intended goal it to work towards a rough cut of our films that we can begin to edit and apply sound design to.

Clarity is Key

Clarity in filmmaking is a really important thing. If a film is confusing in its visuals, it can be next to impossible for an audience to understand the film and, to a further extent, enjoy the film and its characters. Sometimes directors create a scene that is intentionally ambiguous and confusing with its visuals, but it is a great way to distance an audience from your film.

Defining Your Short Film Idea

For homework this weekend I want you to find the focus for your short film.  Each group will turn in their own answers to these questions on Monday.  Take time to think through each of your answers and plan your film.  We will discuss your decisions on Monday as we help to define your project moving forward.  Here is what I want:

Deception in Film

Film is a very powerful tool that can be used in many different ways, good and bad. We learned that with the Kuleshov Effect we can juxtapose two images together to create a brand new emotional connection that previously didn’t exist. There is a very strange reaction that we all have to movies, and that reaction is an emotion. In essence, when we go to see a movie all we are doing is sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers and staring at pictures on a wall.

Strange, isn’t it?