Some Updates

So, aside from dressing up as Batman and running around school with lightsabers, I’ve been rather busy lately.

Since I got my camera back I’ve been ploughing ahead with production on my short film. After months of camera and editing work, I finally have gotten the hang of this thing. Sort of. I can shoot scenes with relative ease now, knowing that it hopefully won’t look terrible and I won’t have to re-shoot it all at a later date.

Today was the filming of a scene which I’ve been anticipating and trying to organise for a long time. It’s the opening of the movie, where one of the main characters gets chased and hounded by a group of rabid fans. The irony of it is this character is relatively unpopular (in the narrative context and in real life) and isn’t some kind of male sex symbol as he is presented as in the film (he’s signed off on this, I’m not being harsh!). I used to just think he was an annoying nerd but after spending lots of time with him he’s pretty cool.

Filming Equipment 2.0

Haha! I’m tricking you into reading more of my complaints about filming equipment and why it’s all annoying but at the same time exciting.

Ha.

Today was the first day of production on The Prefects. It wasn’t a massive deal to most of the others, but it was for me because this is my first short film. If I ever become slightly famous (something which I’m trying very very very hard for) then this is going to be a film which a lot of people will see and judge, so it has to be good. Very good, and right now, the film is way too big for a start-up project.

It ends with a fucking action sequence!