Ok, how does this sound as cool? i have a new tripod, know how to edit and work a camera, getting a cool editing software for my birthday and i have an awesome idea for my next short film, one of the ones i plan to enter for the judges for the Film Festival to look at.
It's based on my book, DARASTRIX ARCANISS Book I: The Apprentice. it doesn't have a big cast since i will be using quite a few scanned drawing and downloaded volcano videos. i think for most of the actual on-camera shots, i will have them in slow-motion and there will be music through the whole thing, and text. For a few scenes there are voice-overs with pictures, which me and my buddy Nick recorded today.
Only two people appear on camera as people, actually. Tajarin, a boy who lives alone in his father's cottage in the woods (I'll do him) and Gwyna, daughter of the King of a kingdom called Munton, who has always hated the fact that she must rule someday, and is Tajarin's only friend. Now there is one thing i still need to know in advance. WHO'S GONNA PLAY GWYNA?! I'm sure i can get someone near my age to play Gwyna but i'm not saying i'm sure who yet. i can probably ask a couple of the girls in my drama class, i dont know. I'll have to see. Luckily i have school tomorrow so i can try then.
I need to know all this in advance so i can get everything ready before March. See, on my birthday March 10, that's the day it starts to get nicer outside and the snow has already melted. It will be the perfect month to film since the rest of the stuff i need on-camera is outside and i can't have snow in view. On the 10th i'll be filming a "RANGERS" movie with my cousin so shooting for Darastrix Arcaniss would need to wait a few more days, but i can get it done, shot in the fields and forests for less than a day, or afternoon. Looks like i got some major work to do.
Even though I'm a bit bummed to not be taking Video production class anymore, i'm quite relieved 'cause this way i can go at my own pace and have more freedom of what i want to film. Now, I go by my rules, my time, and what i want to shoot without any deadlines until April (that's when i need to fill out some form for the Film Fest). Now that i know more about making films, i see it as an active and hopefully lifelong hobby, filming and editing, hopefully sometimes with some of my friends. I can't wait to see what else i can accomplish with this, what extents i can go to, and maybe in a few decades, work on a real movie.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Last Day of Drama and Theatre
Today was my last day of drama and theatre class, which is a serious bummer for all of the small, but fun to be with, class. We all gave heartfelt speeches in class, and lots and lots of hugs.
Even though its just the end of one class together, it feels like the last day of school or something. I remember I got the same feeling when the last harry potter movie came out, bummed that it was over but glad it happened.
Words cannot describe how close me and my drama classmates have all grown as students, as actors, and most importantly, as friends. I don't know if i'll ever have a group of friends who i'll be closer to and want to come visit more after i graduate. But now that i think of it, who the hell does? I know that i'm really going to miss the entire class, and i am forever grateful for all the good times we've had together, including HISTORICAL INACCURACY, and all the funny improv games we've done over the months.
:')
Even though its just the end of one class together, it feels like the last day of school or something. I remember I got the same feeling when the last harry potter movie came out, bummed that it was over but glad it happened.
Words cannot describe how close me and my drama classmates have all grown as students, as actors, and most importantly, as friends. I don't know if i'll ever have a group of friends who i'll be closer to and want to come visit more after i graduate. But now that i think of it, who the hell does? I know that i'm really going to miss the entire class, and i am forever grateful for all the good times we've had together, including HISTORICAL INACCURACY, and all the funny improv games we've done over the months.
:')
Monday, December 12, 2011
Postproduction on "Historical Inaccuracy"
Normally i would be talking on my video blog on my YouTube channel, but i don't feel like talking to my camera right now, and i want to type about some of the stuff that's been going on, some of which i have talked about in my past video blogs.
Taking Video Production class was probably the best choice I made starting senior year. I get to make films with the help of tips from the teacher, and ideas that I get from watching the movies and video blogs that Peter Jackson (favorite director, the best in my opinion) has made.
Since i got a head start on my second video assignment, i finished the editing on it shortly after everyone else started. i am now editing and extended version of the open assignment, which can be about almost anything. It is a short film based on a skit i did with one of my friends in drama class near the beginning of the year. We called the skit HISTORICAL INACCURACY. Now it has become a huge part of the first semester this year. We even filmed it together (i run the camera and play my role again, he has to be in it too, to replay his role), having an awesome and hilarious time playing two 16-year-old idiots. A lot of times when we finished shooting a certain scene, we would go back behind the camera laughing, saying "we're so stupid" :)
For the last few days at school (sadly for only one class period a day) i have been editing the movie, planning to make this the extended edition that i can post on Facebook, my channel, and show to my friends. After this version of it is done, i plan to show it in drama class since most of the cast members are in the same drama class as me. Plus, am going to make a copy and cut it down to eight minutes because that's how long the open assignment can be. This way all the footage will already be in order and edited the way i want it. the open assignment will just be shorter.
i have until the end of January, so i have time. But i still hurry because i want to get it done soon so i can edit a film i want to make with my sister over winter break.
Taking Video Production class was probably the best choice I made starting senior year. I get to make films with the help of tips from the teacher, and ideas that I get from watching the movies and video blogs that Peter Jackson (favorite director, the best in my opinion) has made.
Since i got a head start on my second video assignment, i finished the editing on it shortly after everyone else started. i am now editing and extended version of the open assignment, which can be about almost anything. It is a short film based on a skit i did with one of my friends in drama class near the beginning of the year. We called the skit HISTORICAL INACCURACY. Now it has become a huge part of the first semester this year. We even filmed it together (i run the camera and play my role again, he has to be in it too, to replay his role), having an awesome and hilarious time playing two 16-year-old idiots. A lot of times when we finished shooting a certain scene, we would go back behind the camera laughing, saying "we're so stupid" :)
For the last few days at school (sadly for only one class period a day) i have been editing the movie, planning to make this the extended edition that i can post on Facebook, my channel, and show to my friends. After this version of it is done, i plan to show it in drama class since most of the cast members are in the same drama class as me. Plus, am going to make a copy and cut it down to eight minutes because that's how long the open assignment can be. This way all the footage will already be in order and edited the way i want it. the open assignment will just be shorter.
i have until the end of January, so i have time. But i still hurry because i want to get it done soon so i can edit a film i want to make with my sister over winter break.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Senior Year
First two days of Senior year have been good. Some people can't wait to get out of high school. Some like me can't wait to go back because we go back and see our friends, and go back to the place that molded some of us into what we are today.
Some of us are in no hurry to graduate 'cause we're used to what goes on in High School. Taking classes, seeing the students and teachers and going through a routine of going to different ends of the building every forty-five minutes, and learning new things in classes like the electives we choose. i can't say I'm not one of those people because i like it as well. Take me for example. I hadn't learned what to really appreciate about it until i was at my worst 'i-hate-school' phase that made me want to quit and lasted for nearly two years (freshman year not as bad). I'm not proud at all of being like that at the time, but in a way I'm glad it happened because it opened my eyes.
This year things are going to change, be better like last year (maybe better than that). I plan on making senior year my best, and i bet a lot of you want to as well, am i right? OJR WILDCATS RULE!
Some of us are in no hurry to graduate 'cause we're used to what goes on in High School. Taking classes, seeing the students and teachers and going through a routine of going to different ends of the building every forty-five minutes, and learning new things in classes like the electives we choose. i can't say I'm not one of those people because i like it as well. Take me for example. I hadn't learned what to really appreciate about it until i was at my worst 'i-hate-school' phase that made me want to quit and lasted for nearly two years (freshman year not as bad). I'm not proud at all of being like that at the time, but in a way I'm glad it happened because it opened my eyes.
This year things are going to change, be better like last year (maybe better than that). I plan on making senior year my best, and i bet a lot of you want to as well, am i right? OJR WILDCATS RULE!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
So far
OMG i went to Susquehanna with my dad today and helped unpack stuff for my sister Kaitlin who is starting her third year of college! :) It's good to see she's not complaining so far even though its only been a day. This time no crappy roommates are involved, living in an apartment.
I'm almost done reading the sixth RANGER'S APPRENTICE book already! I have got to keep working on these books so i can finish them before the eleventh one comes out. It's gonna be gooooooood.
Is anyone besides me ready to start school? Most of my friends will be seniors like me, and some of my friends just were seniors and are starting college. I'm proud of us, and of them, really. I actually can't wait to go back. 16-year-old me would probably lose his mind hearing that, but not 17-year-old me. I'm ready to start again and get back to seeing my friends, and take things like video production and acting. As soon as the school year starts, especially for us seniors maybe, things are going to change.
I'm almost done reading the sixth RANGER'S APPRENTICE book already! I have got to keep working on these books so i can finish them before the eleventh one comes out. It's gonna be gooooooood.
Is anyone besides me ready to start school? Most of my friends will be seniors like me, and some of my friends just were seniors and are starting college. I'm proud of us, and of them, really. I actually can't wait to go back. 16-year-old me would probably lose his mind hearing that, but not 17-year-old me. I'm ready to start again and get back to seeing my friends, and take things like video production and acting. As soon as the school year starts, especially for us seniors maybe, things are going to change.
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