Creative Critical Reflection

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Repression

Actors

So I needed actors on a shoe string budget who don't need to really need to act, just kind of stand around and say a line. What do I do? I get my family to stay in on a Friday night of course! Now, I don't come from the Sheen family, so no one in my family can act  act. But I am sure that they can stand/sit/stand and say a couple of things.
The main obstacle is my brother who will play the main character. I will do my best to direct him in the best performance of his life (and probably his only). Plus, I'm "bribing" him by letting him drive my car so he would say yes. Sacrifices we make to make the best film opening we can right?

Tomorrow will be the day. When I will shoot the much anticipated film opening of Repression, coming to theaters... never. Coming to your computer screens Saturday/Sunday. Feels good to finally get this over with, as I've basically have been planning for over a year now, it's good to see this come to fruition.


This is my final blog. It has been a pleasure. No more "Until Next Time"'s anymore. Bittersweet ain't it?............ Wait. I have two more of these?

 I do?

Oh, well, that was sappy for no reason.

Until Next Time.

Steadicam Issues (last time)

Wow. That was irritating. I was suppose to build a steadicam for $14, as previously blogged. However, I went to Houston and my mom tried to find the parts, but it became to much of a hassle. In last effort to find one, I turned to the best/cheapest solution I can find on Amazon. My mom bought it and all seemed well right? No, not really. I thought it would arrive today, but no, it would've arrived Sunday. How convenient. So I did what any rational, yet stressed kid would do. Bought a Prime membership. So now it will arrive today, which is really straining it, but still manageable to do, without the editing and what not.

 So all I have to do is color grade a tad, make my podcast, and we are good. Oh, and film. That's important as well.

Until next time.


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Creative Critical Reflection Decision

There are many different forms of the final reflection one can choose from. Now, many of the possible ones I could've chosen from, I have no idea how to do any of it. The one I do know how to do is the podcast. And, you guessed it, I'll be doing that for my creative critical reflection.

Not to sound lazy, but it is the easiest to do. The only thing that I would like to use is a professional microphone, but I don't feel the need to buy one that I would use for ten minutes. The most difficult part about the podcast is that I need to find quiet in my house for ten minutes. Long shot. Will probably have to do it in my car. So, that is one more thing set up. I am very excited to finally shoot it Friday night. I'll get the family together and make the feature film... opening.

Until next time.

Ground Control to Major Tom*

I still have so many things to do. I have to finish making my steadicam, find an actor, block the shot, light it correctly, and actually shoot the thing. A lot of things to do, but thankfully I don't have much post-production work on it, just sound and maybe color correction. I know nothing about color correction. Maybe strike that one off, or I can find someone to do it for me.

I still have nine days, but will be gone for four of those days. I will be off to Houston to watch the NCAA Final Four with my dad, while make my younger brother jealous that he isn't coming in the process. Now, I know what your thinking. However, spending time with my father is more important to me than doing a project (that I am still really passionate about). I am still confident I have enough time to get the rest of the things done on time. My mom is assembling the rest of the parts for the steadicam and now the fake blood.

Actors I am still stuck. Part of me says, "It would be so easy if you just acted in it", and I could do that. However, I am more comfortable behind the camera, and then I would need to teach someone to do the camera work and I don't trust anyone else to do that. The other half of me is to have my brother do it, but I can't ask him to do something he's never done before. So that will need to be figured out in the coming days.

There will be a lot of post in the next week, as this is my number one priority, school wise.

Until next time.

*This is referring to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" if you didn't get the reference.



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Blood

Blood, fake blood that is, is a very important for my scene. It introduces a mystery to the audience about our main character, and I think that will be the hook of the entire opening. So a lot is riding on the fake blood recipe I choose. I don't want it to look to "red" because in that case it looks fresh, and my blood needs to be darker. It needs to be darker because he got the blood on his hands before he got in the car and drove home, so it shouldn't be too fresh. It also can't be too dark, because then it would look off.

Another problem is when the blood interacts with the skin. Earlier this year I had to make a PSA in AICE Lang. I made fake blood which looked really good in a bowl, on the pavement, but horrible on the skin. It looked really fake, and I can't let that happen.
I''ve been looking on the internet for recipes, and there is way too many recipes. Like an unhealthy amount of them. It's actually frightening. The best one for skin that I'm going to use is from trinaisartisty.com , which is also a "Blogger" blog. Ironic.

This has the best looking recipe for skin, and while I won't be using it on the face (like they did), I think it will work. I'm going to use the recipe thirty minutes before shoot, apply to the actor's hands, knife, and we're good on that front.

Until Next Time.

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