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Though I will not be making anymore of my own films, I look forward to seeing what students create in the next couple of years, and hope I get to work with some good projects and people while at LMU.

prod 200 final project, final cut.

Project 3 Rough Cut

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p7yDfBoWbX72aB382EzZHSakrJFKRGHGl93QQPPLkes/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iaQNzOe-_J6hnzlkDF3qwCJaxDi93w9ef29rX9c5R3A/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fuPJP_KcCv8wVe5GXHUalp7zkMkNYVY2_v-P4iBqy8k/edit?usp=sharing

8.) Going back into their room, they play the CD, filled with music that instantly makes them feel a little better, or at least momentarily forget about everything.

the idea of this is to demonstrate how music can really affect people, and also how small simple gestures can also affect someone.

I had a hard time thinking of an idea for my final project, so I may change it before I actually shoot. But right now, my idea is to have the character have a happy / personable / and somewhat outgoing personality, but once alone is almost the complete opposite; but I’m not sure how I would want the conclusion to play out. So I guess the message would be hiding behind a façade, and what’s really beneath it being revealed.

PROD 200 Project #2 Final Edit - Broken Record

PROD 200 Project #2 Rough Edit - Broken Record

So for this project I want to introduce a character who is a musician trying to write a song but is having trouble being inspired and is also getting distracted by different things; phone, computer, people, etc. It’ll start off simple with the person just sitting trying to write and having some trouble, and then I’ll add different distractions until the character just gets overwhelmed with the things going on around him/her and decides to shut himself/herself out of everything to really focus in on writing.

The main thing I took from the project screening was that my ‘plot’ wasn’t completely a process, but kind of in between a process and a narrative. I definitely could have made my project show more of a process if I had written out a more definite idea of what I wanted to show. I did have a mini script of what I wanted to convey in my film but I kind of changed it when I was filming it. I’ll definitely put more planning into the next project, even though it may have seemed like my shots were more planned out, I shot it on the fly and just randomly. So if I take more time to plan out the whole film in general along with the shots, I can definitely do a better job at conveying whatever it is I want to show.

The repetitive and stressful process of mixing a student film in a time crunch.

So for my first project I want to show the process of mixing a student film, mainly around the time of ‘hell week’ when everyone is cramming and working non-stop to finish projects. I want to convey the feeling of repetition and irritation. It’ll start at the beginning of the process, when my subject is excited at first to start on a new project, but it’ll soon drop to the feeling of being worn out from listening to the same sounds over and over after time moves along. And finally it’ll end with the feeling of relief of finishing a project and thinking one would never sign on to do a film again, when it’s obviously known that that’s impossible.  

I was not sure what to make of the sequence of events at first. After the scene in the empty pool, everything to me seemed like a flashback before that first scene. When it got to the start of the long sequence of shots with the guy laying on the floor, I first thought it was going to be played out in reverse. But as it played out, it still had a feel to it that the clip was being played backwards from how it was shot, but it then felt more like it was being filmed as the subject moved and danced around as the rest of the people in the scene just stood still, which made it seem like it was being played in reverse when in actuality it was just the movement of the subject that made it feel that way. As for the meaning of the short film, considering that it felt like a flashback of scenes as well as having a sort of reverse motion, I think it could represent how when something unexpected or horrible happens, one can wish to take it all away and go back to a point before unfortunate events unraveled; hitting some form of real life undo or rewind button. However, other than the context of the film, I thought the composition of the video was really fantastic. The shots were beautiful and the color and aesthetic were really beautiful as well.