Day Fifty-Two: Nothing But Filmmaking

8/2/13, 7:43 AM PDT

Woo! Actually got to wake up later than 5:30 today.

Woke up at 5:31. Damn it.



Same day, 4:11 PM PDT

FIVE HOURS OF STRAIGHT EDITING. Just BARELY finished the short film, with probably seconds to spare. I think it's pretty okay, for a week-long project and a 5-hour edit. We all had to do our own version and in my opinion, I think mine was the best out of the entire group. Not to sound stuck up, but my edit was pretty damn good. See for yourself.

Since we had five videos per group and five groups, only one person's edit per group would be shown. Half of my group left before the exhibition, so we would be showing either mine, Malia's, or Luke's. Malia didn't want to show hers, and Luke's wasn't that great, so of course, we chose mine to be presented.

...Except Luke was REALLY insistent on showing his, and seeing that he's only 13, I let him have the limelight.

Come the parent exhibition, we showed ours second to last...

And only my mom laughed really hard.

Speaking of the parent exhibition, the other films were pretty interesting. There was one group that made a movie where a guy got paranoid from an avocado that hit his head. Another group made a pretty cool black and white horror film with red in it, kind of like Madworld (the video game) or Sin City. One group made a superhero movie, and the last group made a commercial for Febreze where they would kill people off one by one and they'd smell something nice every time someone died (kind of like this picture).

Pretty good group, I'd say. Really excited for the advanced class next week though.

Oh, and I got a pretty little diploma thing. It comes in a fancy little folder.

Pretty, huh? TARDIS blue too.

It's like a high school diploma, only it's not. I don't know, it's late and
I'm out of jokes.

8/3/13, 2:17 AM PDT

AAAAAAGH. Up late prepping up for tomorrow's shoot. Annotated a lot, bought parts for the knife belt, actually made the knife belt, got Zach's shipment of props, and made a quick little name plate for Diana.

This took effing WEEKS to make. It's not even funny.

Here's the first step to making the knife belt, which is connecting it to
a metal beam.

Completed product, currently stabbing me.

Completed product, on table.

PROPS.

Cool little thing about Zach's props, he made a detachable silencer using Legos, superglue, and a cardboard tube.

He described it as "ghetto." I describe it as "genius."

RFotD: In real life, silencers don't muffle gunshots to the degree shown in movies. Rather, they only diffuse the gunshot so that it's more difficult for the targets to figure out where the gunshot came from. Subsonic ammunition can more accurately replicate the "silenced" effect in movies.

SGAT: PREPPED UP TO MAKE MY MOVIE. Also finished my film camp's first movie.