180 Degrees and More

I haven't blogged for a few days, and for that I am sorry. But I've been busy. Understandable, right? 

So Tuesday was screenwriting, and I got a little bit chewed out for not introducing my main character in terms of archetypal personality. It's kind of hard to explain. But I'm so used to showing who characters are through dialogue action, and show don't tell, show don't tell, show don't tell, that now it's like, tell, tell, tell, and it's difficult! But I'm excited to see what I come up with when I actually get it.

Yesterday I had sound lab which was long, but pretty cool. We learned to put sounds together- dialogue tracks, sound effects, and more. It was really fun. That's what we'll have to do on our films. Dialogue goes in one track, atmosphere sounds in another, sound fx, music, etc. I feel more sound-savvy already.

Last night we had a directing lab about staying on the 180 degree line in movies. This is the imaginary line that makes it look like the characters are talking to one another, even when you can't see the other person, like in close-ups. So we walked into the room, and I realized that I still haven't ceased to be amazed by film school. There were two cameras set up and a camera strung up from the ceiling somewhere, so it was overhead. There were these awesome lights and two mannequins. I'll post a picture later. It was just awesome. That's the only word for it.

We also talked about not making your actors look like amputees, which made me laugh, because I keep thinking of taking pictures with my mom and sister and talking about that. 

Oh! And last night, well, this morning, at like 3 a.m., Reb sent us the crew grids so we can see who is working on our crew for our film, and who we work for and when we work. So that's super exciting. We should get our scripts to choose from today. It's all happening!