Week 10 - Day 1

Today, the class split into the two production teams, for the two nominated, three minute films. The two nominated films are called, 'Love, Mugs and Stickmen' which was written by Ross Williamson  and 'The Messenger' which was written by Gavin Laing. The class was assigned into two groups of 6 by the DFTV panel a few days ago. I was assigned into Ross Williamson's production. Anyway, back to today, we were allocated by Ross, the author into our roles in the production, I was chosen to be the camera operator. I am particularly happy with this because I believe camera operating is one of my strongest skills in 'the industry.' 

We began to share our ideas of who should be cast in the primary roles. Later we started breaking down the script in terms of props, sound and shots etc. I sat with the author and the camera assist and began to plan and work out shots, the style and the rhythm of the film. I suggested that some of the shots would require tracking. Although the class have not been trained in this element, I thought I'd drop an email to Ray to see if I could get a crash course on how to use the tracks. Adam was sure that it would be fine. The day was very fruitful and I'm excited on how the film will turn out.

In the evening, I took a visit to cineworld and watched 'Bronson,' which I am really dissappointed about, because it wasted 95 minutes of my life. I' ll write a review on The Luke Reviews.