"Speed Up" Shooting Day 1

On Wednesday of this week we worked hard to have a successful start to the beginning of our shoot. We arrived at location at 3:30 and set up to start filming by 3:45 p.m. Our camera was running great and it gave us no trouble. The actor gave a great performance and the director was doing his job by telling him the right things to do. Our producer did a great job of keeping the slate and shot list in check. We reached our goal of shooting all the way to scene 5 and covering the necessary insert shots. Our next shoot we would want to stay on location a little longer so we can shoot our next scene smoothly. My groups participation was good but if I was rating them on a scale of 1-10 I would probably give an 8 just because of short spurts of off task moments. Other than that we got good progress out of our first day of shooting.

Production of "Speed Up" Week 1

This week we have started our first major film project of the year and so far things are moving quite smoothly. Our director/writer Gustavo provided us with a great story and we are really excited to start our first project. On Sunday we completed our first script and reviewed it on Monday. We all contributed to the corrections of the script via online Celtx. On Wednesday after school 4 out of the 5 group members got together at Amy's house to go over the shooting days. Together we got work done and made our final edits on the script. We are already set on what locations we are gonna use and everything is set to start filming next week on Tuesday.

Wan on His Way

James Wan is one of those directors that came out of nowhere but rose to the top very fast. He directed "The Conjuring", "Saw", and his "Insidious: Chapter 2" comes out tomorrow. The 36 year old Australian is also scheduled to take the reigns of the next "Fast and Furious" movie which he has already started production on. His "Insidious" film that he first released made $54 million domestically and $97 million worldwide those are some very astonishing numbers for a horror film in my opinion because not many people like horror so to raise that is pretty impressive. I really liked "Insidious" not considering the fact that i did not sleep that night but everything in that movie made a perfect horror film. Wan inspires me to keep pursuing the industry till one day I could be like him.

For more on Wan see: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-backstage-wan-20130912,0,1116386.story

The Troubles of Movie Making

As consumers of the film industry I think that we are to blind to see past the movie itself. We neglect all the work that goes into the production. The Director is the head of everything and if sometimes goes wrong o set he takes the heat. Paul Holehouse is the Director of the "Hunger Games" film and he is putting in hours to make sure that everything is taken care of so they can have a good shoot for the sequel to the "Hunger Games." He has already had his locations inspected, his stunt crew prepared and his actors trained. He wants to do his best to avoid problems that will leave them stuck in the mud. He said it himself, "We don't want to have any down times or delays, because that's what kills you in this business." I knew it took a lot of work to make a film but now I see its more stressful than the D.M.V. You really got to respect the film crews and the Directors and all the stuff that they go through to deliver movies to us the viewers.

For more on the story visit: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-firemans-fund-onlocation-20130904,0,3327096.story