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Module 3: Stop Motion

Reading’s for the Week Color: When you see the word color you must think of kindergarten class learning all the colors of the rainbow and picking out your favorite and getting a bunch of things in that color because it made you happy, but in reality color means so much more.

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Module 7: TELLING A STORY Part 2 – Mini-Doc (Production and Post)

Class Reflection: When I first started this course, I had already read the “Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video” in my undergraduate course and had a degree in both journalism and film. So I felt I had already learned a lot of the content in this course. That being said it’s always good…

Nightmares From Set: Vol. 6 Fox’s 9-1-1, The Impossible & Titanic

In the past couple of weeks I’ve talked about complex sets and production weeks, but in my opinion the hardest practical effect to achieve is massive natural water disasters, like a tsunami, a flood or a boat sinking. Many famous films have water disasters like the film 2012 and Pirates of the Caribbean, but a…

Module 6: Telling A Story – Mini Doc Pre-Production

Readings: This week in the Tom Schroeppel’s textbook, “The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video” I read the two chapters on Lighting and how to physically apply everything you’ve learned, by just “Doing It”. In chapter 7 all about lighting, Schroeppel talks about the importance of light and how there are many different…

Nightmares From Set: Vol. 5 Apocalypse Now

Imagine actual hell, now think this set was most likely worse than that. Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released in 1979 goes down as one of the best war films of its time, but for the director, actors and the crew it was an almost 68 week long nightmare that pushed everyone…

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