Been a While

So I know I don't post anywhere near a regular basis but here's an update on me for those that are interested:

This last weekend was fun. Me and my friends all pretty much entered a Film Festival: Campus Movie Fest. We did this last year too but this time around we split into 3 groups and I got to do more. So I worked on Leslie and Hannah's movie. The basic story of the short film is before the film starts boy had girlfriend, boy cheated on girlfriend, girlfriend dumped boy, and now they run into each other at a Party. So the movie starts at that party, they're awkward. he still likes her. he gets drunk and passes out. Dream Sequence! So he has a musical dream involving himself, girlfriend and girl he hooked up with. SO then he wakes up, realizes he's an asshole and goes and apologizes.

So on Friday, my friends shot the morning parts of the movie, (him going to apologize) and then at night we shot the party scene, and then using a bright theater light on the balcony, made it seem like it was day to shot him walking up. Shooting the party scene was funny because I was with Tom and Kristina and the random conversations they had were HILARIOUS. So that was friday. After shooting we went to watch improv which was fun too.

Then on Saturday we shot the dream sequence. Now my friend went and got some theater lights and HUGE black drapes to hang in the living room so it seems like Boy is in darkness in his dream. So we filmed this in Leslie's living room, so the couch was stood up and put in front of the door. We had a fog machine to use in the dream. And then we had the Crisis. So they were testing out of the fog machine and we had all windows closed and the AC off. There's no door separating the living room with the hallway leading to the bedrooms. The fog fills up the place and the fire alarms go off! Luckily the one that calls the fire department didn't go off but still we were panicing. So we open all the windows and the door to let the fog vent out of the apartment and we hear sirens. So we panic even more, thinking the fire truck is coming, so we quickly get the couch down since it was a safety hazard how it was and try to fan out all the fog. Then we realize that it looks like the place is on fire cuz fog is coming out of the place and it looks like smoke so we're hoping no one calls the fire department thinking the place is on fire because it looks like a lot of smoke is coming out and the alarms were going off. But luckily nothing happens. So after panicing we film the scene and only use the fog machine at the very end, making sure to air out fog in between so it doesn't fill up the place again. I get to be a grip and be Haley's (who is playing the girlfriend) own personal spotlight. And then when we finish filming we export everything on to the computer while we go over to kevin's to give him the birthday cake his mom sent to Leslie and Hannah to give to him. After that we go to the Groove to have dinner and celebrate Kevin's birthday and watch Zombieland.

When we get back, I stay up with Leslie and organize the clips so that I could just edit on Sunday. We realize we have to cut out a person's scene cuz we didn't get all the shots we needed for it filmed.

So then it's sunday and I go over to their place at 10am and start editing. Everything's going good. Leslie feeds me. Everything's good and then we realize that the dream scene is 3mins and 46secs long. The movie can't be more than 5mins. and then other scenes easily take up 2-3mins too. So we spend the rest of the time finishing the other scenes and then cutting them down until we get to under 5mins, which took a couple of hours. We had to cut out another character which was sad and didn't even really have time for credits and the actually party scene. We merged the credits and party scene as an opening for the movie which worked out pretty well. Then I handed it over to Leslie for her to color correct and add music and background noise.
I went to bed after 1am that day.

So then on monday night we watched all the movies we made, which were all much better than last year's. Good stuff. The finale for USC is this coming thursday so we'll see if any of our movies made it to USC finals.

The week's been ok since then. Had a midterm yesterday. Right after finishing the test, I was speed walking to catch up with my friend and totally tripped and fell. And now my knee hurts from where it bleed and it hurts to bend cuz of the skin being pulled so walking up and down stairs in a pain in the ass.

This weekend will be spent editing a master cut of our CMF movie just for fun. And then studying for my midterm on wednesday.

Peace out, yo.