One of our class projects involved using archival footage in order to create an engaging story about a subject. Some examples include using footage from Charlie Chaplin films in order to tell the story of a scandal he had with someone in the past, another one involved telling a family story with mining. Here is …
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In terms of externship, Friday was my last day at InsideOut. UrbanPeak, a homeless shelter for youth in Colorado Springs from ages 15-20, and InsideOut recently collaborated and decided that the UrbanPeak kids would have drop in hours from 12:30-3pm at InsideOut. The most exciting activity of the day was from 5:30-7pm – Glitter Wars. …
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 …
Baby do you love me?
Yesterday was my longest day at InsideOut. I came in at 11am and Eric gave me a ton of random tasks to do. One of the tasks involved putting bills into envelopes and when I looked at the costs for running and managing InsideOut, it was interesting to see what most people don’t take into …
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 …
An Outside Look into InsideOut
Yesterday was my first day for my externship at InsideOut, a LGBT youth services center in downtown Colorado Springs. I met Eric Pizana and Ashley and in their office they were writing grants to local organizations, asking them if they would be able to provide any food or money for InsideOut. Eric gave me a …
Release Forms, License Agreements, and Contracts – Oh my!
Today we learned about the legalities regarding filmmaking in larger settings. I was amazed at how much work goes into filming in a public setting. For Clay and Dylan’s movie, The Hollywood Complex, there is one scene where there are a bunch of children in a crowded room, and even though those children are not participating in …
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That’s a Wrap
I think I speak for all (or at least most) of my classmates when I say that Documentary Filmmaking has challenged me more than I imagined and has taught me more than I could have anticipated. For the week and a half, and particularly the last four days, we have gone into overdrive working on our …
Week Two
Mock in-class interview So ends Week Two! This week in documentary filmmaking, we focused on the delicate art of interviewing subjects: something we all need to master (to some degree) for our final project. Including the practical elements of how to light your subject most effectively and how to record sound using a few …
