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Chapter 6, the preproduction chapter, comes at an opportune time for our groups because now that we’re getting into the thick of things, it’s helpful to get a bit more of an in-depth rundown of the various jobs on the preproduction and production side of things. Ensuring that we are aware of the importance of things like art direction and proper budgeting is essential as we embark on our shoots.
On a more personal note, as a project director I’ve learned after reading this chapter the importance of line producers. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I wasn’t ever aware that a producer did anything besides finance the project, but now I see the importance of having someone to organize everything for you to take some heat off of the director. A director can’t plausibly keep all of the craziness of a general shoot together and expect to be effective in their role, and now that I understand this, I’ll be working hard to make sure the producer on my project understands the creative vision and can help me achieve this through their organizational talents.
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So apparently, despite me not having updated this in AGES, I still get readers here. Pretty neat!
So, loyal readers, I present to you a funny video I shot with my friend in Cincinnati over Fall Break this year. Hope you like it.
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Dear Everyone,
Here’s the final video version of Mouth Sounds. Watch and enjoy.
Love, Jay
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been assisting with the “I Live Here” dance project here at Elon University. Basically, it’s a multimedia dance performance, a collaboration between the performing arts department and the communications school here. Pretty neat stuff if you ask me. I’m working on the documentary and live crews, which has been a very enriching experience in improving my photography, editing skills, and time management. We put on the actual show next week, which means that now we officially start kicking into high gear. I’ve got to get ready to hit the ground running. In the meantime, I’ve taken a good amount of photos during the course of the project, and here are my ten favorites thus far. I’ve also added them to my flickr account, which can be accessed on the left-hand sidebar. (OH YEAH! I changed the theme of my blog. Hope ya’ll enjoy that.) Anyway, here’s the pictures:
If you’d like more info on the I Live Here project, click here to access the project’s blog. It’s got bios, videos, pictures, and much more.
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Woah! It’s been a while, guys. Been busy busy busy with school and work and other kinds of madness. Trust me, I’ll get back on schedule soon.
In the meantime, enjoy these two videos that I’ve made for my Digital Media class, and let me know what you guys think in the comments!
FIRST UP: The final version of my Nighthawks painting story. VOILA.
AND NEXT: A little stop-motion movie I made called “Playtime’s Over”. TADA.
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Yeah, it’s a few days late, but IT IS STILL RELEVANT I PROMISE! Some cool stuff happened last week and I have to report on it. Let’s start with number 3…
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Here be some portrait-y pictures that I took. They’re not your standard “posed with artsy background and mood lighting” pictures because that’s just not my thing! I like a little life in my pictures, so I chose to take mostly candid portrait photos, with a few posed ones. I think these are pretty enjoyable. Not my favorite assignment so far, but some interesting results.
As always! Click the thumbnails to see the full-size action.
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Here’s my project idea: A beatbox-esque song medley using SOLELY the sounds that I can make with my mouth area, and to a lesser extent, my face area. I’ll utilize split-screen, keyframing, and wicked beat mixing because I’ve got it like that.
Sure to be an entertaining (and strange) treat for all who see!
They must be feeding the kids of the Coppola family something special, because Sofia Coppola is on the way to being a great filmmaker.
Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, the next film after her critically acclaimed The Virgin Suicides, is remarkable in its simplicity and effectiveness. Using primarily two characters, Charlotte and Bob (played by Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray, respectively), to illustrate the loneliness felt by finding yourself slapped haphazardly into a new culture that you know nothing about and, quite frankly, don’t like too much once you find yourself there. Both Charlotte and Bob have to deal with weirdness on the behalf of Tokyo’s citizens, including a memorable scene involving a “massage therapist” who simply want’s Bill Murray’s character to lip her stocking. Wait, what?
The snappy dialogue is probably the best part of the movie, simultaneously being laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly poignant and sad. Charlotte and Bob’s connection is really enhanced by the words Ms. Coppola wrote and eventually won Best Original Screenplay for. The cinematography also enhanced the viewer’s perception of these characters. If there’s anything that Coppola can do well, it’s set up a scene beautifully, and is notably very meticulous about it: she even took pictures around Tokyo, picked out her best ones, then had her crew recreate that for the film. Two notable scenes where the cinematography is on high importance are Charlotte’s walk through the arcade, and Bob’s appearance on a Japanese talk show with the apparent Johnny Carson of Japan…both wonderfully shot scenes that really helped us see the lost-ness that these characters feel by placing them in environments that are so out of their element and really giving us an idea of what that might feel like.
Overall, I thought this was a fantastic film that deserves every accolade that came its way. While Coppola faltered with her next film, Marie Antoinette, I still have high hopes for her future work based on this and The Virgin Suicides.
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Dear Internet,
Hey there. How’s it going? How’re the kids?
I hear your cries. “Jay, what was so great about this week? It got cold and rainy, Facebook changed their format again, and Lost was a rerun.” But don’t worry, I’ve got some shining examples. Four of ‘em, to be specific.
