How you know you're in the right program: when you feel like you "get to" do something that is in fact a homework assignment.
I shot a film today. On film. I have no idea if it came out all right. In fact I'm not at all confident it's in focus. I was going only by measurement because looking through the lens at no point did it actually appear in focus. I suppose the diopter on the eye piece might have been messing me up, but fussing with both the lenses and the diopter I never got an actually sharp image. So I was going entirely based on numbers. Actor is 6 feet away, set the lens focus ring to 6 feet. Hope for the best. And that's the thing. I have no idea. It's film. I have to send it off to the lab and then get it back and then review it to know if all is good.
As a story though I feel like it worked. Jorge played Paul the company man. Jason was the boss and Lai was the man on the bench. They were great. Really easy to work with. It took us about 2 and a half hours to shoot a 2 and a half minute film and we had fun doing it. The assignment was to do all of your editing in camera, so one take for each shot and then move on. It requires great discipline and pre-visualization. And it's very unforgiving. At one point I'm pretty sure I accidentally rolled a few frames of film just by pushing a button that I wasn't sure what it did. But ok, nothing I can do about it now. And at least the guys will have learned from that mistake because we were all three of us together peering at the camera. And there were a couple of things that we tried that we weren't sure if it was going to work, but we tried it anyway. We're in school to try things.
Must go back to tweaking my ghost story synopsis so I can turn it in tonight.
PS: I think I got lucky. Today was a gorgeous day. Tomorrow is a 90% chance of rain, Saturday a 40% chance of rain, and Sunday a 30% chance of rain.
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