New York Film Academy 13th Day Director's craft #5 - screen mise-en film (Josh Adler) Today was the day of the screening and critiquing of our Mise-en Scnenes. And man do I have a lot of classmates who can't handle critique. Was fun to see everybody's work but hearing some people defending themselves was even more entertaining. Since I'm my own worst critic the comments Josh gave were pretty mild. Main thing about my Mise-en Scene was not really having a clos...

New York Film Academy 12th day Open Pre-Production Day Since I already did all my pre-productioning and had written my script I decided that this would be a perfect time to chill. So I contacted Jenae (the star in my first short) and we went to the fashion district of LA. Although I love shopping especially for clothes I didn't by a single thing. It did give me the chance to have a nice conversation with Jenae. We talked about so many things which was so nice...

New York Film Academy 11th day Production workshop #1 (Ed Timpe) SOOOOO EXCITED!!! But also a little nervous. Again I'm the first in our crew to shoot. And of course something went wrong. Besides about 300+ other crews and actors were running around an actor assigned to our crew not showing up and the actress who left me hanging being the other actor assigned to us. Also the cam was set on reverse and we discovered that after shooting my first scene. So I tho...

New York Film Academy 10th day Open pre-production time So some more time to work on your films. I got in school early. Mostly because we could get some props for our project on the Universal lot. I figured out what I wanted to shoot yesterday and today in the preproduction time i made a detailed script with what and how I wanted to shoot it. Concepts of editing #1 (Igor Torgeson) A new teacher who explained the role of editor. Apparently caffeine is an edi...

New York Film Academy 9th day Check-in This morning we had to check in our camera and lights. We also had to turn in our film so it can be processed. I though my nerves would be calm by now but I just keep worrying about if I did everything right. I'll just have to wait and see I guess. Digital is so much less stressful then film :D Director's Craft #4 (Josh Adler) In class we talked about how our shoot day went and if we had any trouble. Josh was a little ...