Photo Credit: Angela Kong Waiting for my film to show up on the big screen was absolutely terrifying, and as I looked at the other students’ faces, I could tell they were doing a pretty awful job hiding their terror too. I exported my film at about 6:00 for the 7:00 screening. That’t not okay. …
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The Prequel to the Finale
Photo Credit: Chance Crail, who was on set with me as cinematographer. These are some pictures from my dance shoot in Cossitt that helped tie together all three of my film’s characters. Using the camera equipment we had was incredible. We are finally finished with our blocks at this point, and get to enjoy a …
Hell Week
Image by Mackenzie Ross I was going to title this post something cute like “The 12 Days of Editing”, but I think this is a more deserving title. The editing room resembles my room more so than my actual room. I think I have more food around the desktop computer than I do in …
Focusing On What Goes Right
I feel that this quotation sums up shooting week very well. This post was actually from before this week began. I really love having an audience, but I hate getting on stage. This whole week we have been preparing and revising our pitches for Rocky Mountain PBS last Wednesday. I should have written last Wednesday, …
I’m trying to love suffering
MICHAEL BRADLEY, US midfielder “This will be a World Cup where teams that do well will suffer. We want to be the team that can suffer the most” It is so seductively easy to fail in filmmaking. I mean, it’s practically like the process begs you to fail …
The Fly on the wall and the Artists that are very much present
Filmmaking classes are the best opportunity to play lots of foosball. It’s funny– so many creative powerhouse studios provide game rooms to employees, because when you are involved in Film, you’re living there. In that, if you’re editing a film, you live in the editing room. Every day at break, whether I was tired, frustrated, …
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Movies on Movies and BACA
Hello all CC blog readers, whether seasoned or new, thanks for tuning in. My name is Tom and I am a fellow student with Angela Kong in the Documentary Film Institute class. Angela already has told quite a bit alluding to our externship experiences, but I just want to extend a quick background about the …
