Technological Production Diaries

Today we had another guest speaker. Sam Perez is a senior at DSU and is working on his capstone.

He explained the purpose of our electronic production diaries that we are using for our class (and capstone projects).

He went into depth on the amount of time and energy he spent just on pre-production for his film. He had been working on pre-production for months before he had gotten any footage at all. Figuring out locations, moods, settings, character/actors, and training someone in the art of boxing were all on his pre-production To-Do list.

He also explained how we, as film students, will most likely put in far more hours into our capstone projects than most other seniors will do for their capstones.

The Idea

At the beginning of the semester I was stressing out because people had already started working on their capstones and I didn't even have an idea of what I wanted to do. Did I want to do a documentary? A music video? A live action movie? I hadn't the slightest clue.

The pressure was on once my professor said we have to get an idea and start pre-production this semester. What was I going to do?! Then, out of nowhere, I remembered my burning passion for analog music--records. The idea popped in my head about doing a documentary of the (somewhat) local record store in Cedar, Groovacious.

I'll do a documentary on music! I was so proud of the idea that I couldn't stop thinking about it. That would be an awesome documentary.

That's what I'll do.

I pitched the idea to my professor and got it approved. Now to move forward with the idea.

Audio Lesson

Today our class listened to guest speaker Joe Girard about audio and good audio production.

I Invited a couple friends of mine that are interested in film but have yet to enlist in the program.

We listened to him speak for about an hour. He explained how there are many job opportunities in audio for films. It is seldom picked over many other film job opportunities. 

Being a good audio coordinator can be good because you are almost always ensure a gig.

He explained how some of his equipment worked and taught us some simple basics about his profession.

He will be returning to DSU next year as a professor and will be teaching an on-location audio class.