Friday our group spent most of the day rehearsing how the camera and the sound equipment would move along with the actors. We also spent a good amount of time figuring out how close the actors would have to be to recreate the scene from the Graduate. Once we felt confident moving around we took a couple of practice shots.
Saturday we started early and reset the lighting and the chairs. We spent the rest of the day shooting. Fits of laughter were not uncommon on set. I wouldn't be surprised if more than half of our footage/sound consisted of everyone laughing at some point. Our group got along really well and had a great time working together. I would love to work with this group again in the near future.
When we talked about expanding our film and dressing the set to fit athletes, ideas starting popping in my head and made me start thinking about the things I could work on in an art department. I'm excited to see what Maura and I can come up with for the microcinema. So far we have a couple ideas that work together we're just waiting on the location to figure out some other details.
After discussing both of the films today it really stuck that this is the beginning of our careers and that it's ok that our work isn't 100 percent. We have time before our big break to fix our mistakes and gain more experience in the field. I agreed with what was said in discussion that the sci-fi zombie musical had potential. I think it had a great start it just needed more to it. We talked about if the zombies were "singing" along to a song and bringing inspiration from something else and that reminded me of a YouTube channel I found a couple of years ago: The Hillywood Show. It is run by two sisters who make parodies of popular shows and movies. They use popular songs and if need be they change the lyrics to fit the context while they "sing" along to them. They also make for a good laugh.
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