Today we filmed Scene IV, Scene III and Scene V. We were thankful to accomplish as much as we did, though we still have quite away to go. The cool, misty, cloudy day was perfect for filming! We were determined to never do another unscripted scene again. In a sense, we did stay by that in that Rachel had written more scenes to move the story forward (in other words - we weren't just making it up as we went along). However, the guys aren't as keen on memorizing long, poignant dialogue in a matter of minutes. They much prefer getting to the cold cut, non-relational action. Thus, we did a lot of improvising. Basically, we ended up giving them the sketchy bones of the story and letting them add the meat. There was a lot of laughter...and a little arguing here and there. But hey, we survived another day of filming! :)
The infuriating footnote of the day is that I mistakenly sent my dad the link to the wrong PCMCIA card...and we didn't realize it until today. I intended to get a PCMCIA card with an IEE34 firewire port so we can download our film onto my laptop and then begin editing. Today the card finally arrived...but it turned out to be a USB cardbus port instead. Urgh...how did I make that mistake?
Well, all is well that ends well - we still made some progress, and we now have a midi port for Rachel to record the soundtrack she has composed (in her head, not on paper).
Until next time,
~Amanda~
Post Scriptum: The Reads live in Alabama and the Abbotts live in Tennessee, so we can only film occasionally when the Abbotts come for a visit. That explains our infrequent updates.
3 comments:
Might I offer a few words of advice?
1. Tripods are your friends.
Look at any move, and you'll see the cameras are always rock-solid. Unless, they are shook for special effect, of course. And nothing shouts "amateur" more than the classic "shaky cam" look.
2. If something can be removed from the film, then it should!
Nobody wants to watch a mediocre 10 hour epic, but something cut down to 10 minutes or less would probably be quite good and very entertaining.
Those are my two bits of advice. Of course, you can do whatever you want, since it's your film after all.
Thanks for the advice. We have a tripod, and we've used it a few times. But it gets in the way sometimes when we're trying to move the camera around because it doesn't have wheels and isn't the most flexible tool in the world. What we need is a dolly of sorts...
Don't worry, it's not going to really be "full length" - as in, two hours. It will be more like 15-20 mins. at the rate we're going, if even that long.
Hopefully we'll get some practice and try creating something entertaining in the process. We might start doing a variety of shorts - like 5 min. long things.
~Amanda~
This looks a wonderful project. Your clips so far on You Tube look very special.
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