New York Film Academy 8th day Shoot Mise-en Scene shoot day #2 Today we shot Ike's and Thomase's Mise-en Scene. Ike was up first. Jennifer (one of the 4 week NYFA acting for film actresses) was the actress in his shoot but he needed one more actor/actress. He first wanted Thomas to be in the shoot as an actor. But when I was asking about how it would play out and did a walk through he decided I would be the actress in the shoot next to the wonderful Jennifer....

New York Film Academy 7th day Shoot Mise-en Scene I got up at around 3: this morning. My nerves just woke me up that early. I was the first one to shore the Mise-en Scene in my crew. My crew contains Ike Alford, Chris Robinson, and Thomas Hughes. Late last night the actress who promised to be in my shoot canceled on me because she thought the role I would have had her play wouldn't be good for her career. Poor thing only 5 days into the 4 week NYFA program an...

New York Film Academy 6th day Hands on Camera #5 -Screen cam/lighting tests (Ed Timpe) Today we would check out how the camera test we shot on Wednesday had worked out. But because post production didn't do their work we had to wait on it. So Ed was a little late because of that, he also gave the impression that's normal practice for those guys. But while we waited on post production to do their thing we went in crew by crew to tell our story and how we pictu...

New York Film Academy 5th day Open Pre-Prodction Time Open Pre-Production Time is used to prepare for the shoots ou have. So our crew (Chris Ike, Thomas and me) got to school early and laid out our ideas and brainstormed about them. My first idea I already figured to be better for the next assignment. So yesterday I rewrote the 1st idea and came up with something else for my Mise-en Scene. We also watched Pulp Fiction in one of the viewing rooms in the libra...

New York Film Academy 4th day Writing #1 (Sharri Hefner) Sharri is our writing teacher. She told us about character arcs, the role of the antagonist and about the ingredients you need to write story that is interesting for viewer to watch. She showed us 3 short films all by Pixar. She explained the principals of how Pixar uses these principals. We watched 'for the birds', 'knick, knack' and 'boundin'' After that we got 15 minutes to write a story with all ...