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Thanks to everyone who voted for PORTLAND in the Fresh Films comptetition. This means we are moving on to the final round of voting which will occur in about a week which I will write another blog about.
I AM SO EXCITED!
Hey Everyone!
I was a filmmaker on the Portland team for Samsung Mobile Fresh Films. We have a BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER National Guard rescue scene in our movie!! You can see it at http://www.fresh-films.com/action.htm
Please watch our movie and vote for us from Aug 7-13 (unlimited voting)! The movie with the most votes in the first and second round goes to the AFI film festival along with all the filmmakers.
We could really use your votes! Plus voters are eligible for a trip to Hollywood too.
-Steph
Tags: Movie Fresh Films Helicopter Black Hawk National Guard Rescue Scene Vote
I just got back from a week long of movie-making with this awesome program called Samsung Mobile Fresh Films. We made a movie with a black hawk helicopter. Everyone thought the helicopter was so awesome and it was, BUT I feel like we sacrificed quality in other parts of the movie because it was like we thought a helicopter would make up for anything we missed.
Anyway, the week was a great experience despite what I just said. It was me and ten other teens making a short film with the help of some interns. We did everything from casting call to editing. We're competing against 8 other cities who also made films.
There will be a 2 week of voting in August and the winning team of both weeks will go to the AFI film festival on Nov. 8 and their movie will be in it too. It's amazing so please watch our film and vote for the Portland team starting Aug 7th! Thanks!
I just finished my difficult-to-name film. Thanks to those who tried to assist me in my quest for a title. I think I've found one that works though. Please watch it on my page. It's short and creepily cute (you'll have to watch it to see what I mean).
I'm currently making my first "horror" movie. I say "horror" because it's not REALLY scary... But I have a problem. I can't think of a name! I used to think up stories based on a title just as an excuse for it to have the privlege of being a title. Now that I'm older and more...is there a word to describe this???? ...disciplined?....I'm having the opposite difficulty. I need a good title to give my collection of scenes an excuse for being called a movie.
Do you think dialogue should be more natural? Everyone is so well-spoken in movies. They always seem to know what to say and hardly trip over their words. It seems unrealistic. Do you agree?
Please check out my newest artsy short film called "White Lie." I made it for my final in Video Production. Watch it on my profile. It's the first one listed under About Me.
We finished filmming the cafeteria scene at school. We spent four days on this scene because we only had lunchtime to do it. AAAH! CONTINUITY!!! Luckily it's in B&W which helps with that aspect. There's nothing quite like "making a scene" in the cafeteria because the extas don't know they are extras, but they behaved. No one came up to harass us. In fact they kind of stood in awe as if thinking, "Why are you holding a white apple? What does that have to do with the movie? How can high schoolers be organized?" teehee. Good times.
1/8/08
Today was the first production day of “White Lie.” We didn’t get many shots done, but my friends were excited to be a part of it. Erika, Aly, and Jon helped me with equipment while I acted and directed. It’s difficult acting AND directing, but I think it’s good in a way because I’m closer to the actors. However, I sacrifice being able to see everything all the time. Slashing has it’s ups and downs.
I’m stepping up the audio quality on this one. I’m borrowing the nicest shotgun mic our school has. My teacher usually doesn’t check it out to people, but…he knows I’m not going to use it as a squeegee prop IN the movie.
Production has the benefits of a war or natural disaster without the catastrophe because everyone works together, putting aside personal differences for the sake of a larger goal. It draws us together. Let’s hold hands and sing! Ok, maybe not.
This week at church we talked about peace and how God desires that we live at peace with Him and through hard times, are restored in Him. I keep this in mind during production. I pray beforehand that we’ll do what we need to do without worrying about it and that other people in the cafeteria won’t come up to us and bother us or ask us questions…oh…the questions people ask….
The first question: What are you doing?
2nd: What’s it for?
3rd: Can I be in it?
4th: Please?
5th: I’ll give you a ________if you do.
6th: [more begging]
7th: [insults]
No one bothered us today, but during “The Plan I Have for You,” all these skateboarders were making fun of us, interrupting, or trying to make a physical or verbal appearance (and editor’s worst nightmare when the director doesn’t notice).
It’s always frustrating having to reshoot a scene because obnoxious swearing can be heard in the background…all hail shotgun mics! I could use some paid extras about now. However, even when Spielberg was making Close Encounters, extras had to be fired because they got drunk. Paying people is not guarantee they will do their job.
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