Novice Filmmaker

Cucalorus was a lot cooler than I ever thought it would be. I spent a majority of my time there backstage as a screen coordinator. This was how I ended up meeting sever different filmmakers and got to talk with them about their work. The hardest part about the entire weekend was finding Matt Malloy. He was a reoccurring emcee for the festival and he was famous for disappearing and reappearing. But what made this frustrating is that I could never find him when I needed him but if I was at the bar after a screening I would run into him. I started out with Mapplethorpe,  a narrative film about the life and death of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It was very stylistic with many montages that lead up to the actual photographs taken by Mapplethorpe. Next I watched probably one of the best films all weekend, Lords of Chaos. The film had that perfect mix of horror, drama and comedy to make a highly satisfying film. I watched this film with several classmates which was nice compare...

So my idea involves taking several pov shots about various people and events in my day to day life. My intention is to show myself through interactions of some of my closest friends to random people I happen to meet while working on my project. I want to string all of the shots with matches on actions so all the shots flow together. I have no intention of scripting scenes because I want the scenes to be realistic and then I can throw them all together in post and create something with all the footage I have. My interntion is to show myself through interactions with other people. My working title is "An Hour to Kill."

Before this project all I knew about editing photographs was lectures from pack about various charts and what they show. Editing the photos in light room allowed me to see the charts that I recognized from class. With this in mind I knew what a "normal" photograph was supposed to look like, all I had to do now was figure out what I wanted it to look like. Unlike how I feel about permere pro, light room felt very intuitive where I could figure out what I wanted to do with in a few minutes and didn't randomly lose all my work during the process by some error I made. The hardest part of this project would have to be keeping the experimental vibe, many of my first idea were linear and I had to break away from that mentality. 

My first and foremost intention is to not get overwhelmed in this festival. There are so many events to go to so will need to plan on going to specific events. I plan to speak with filmmakers after their screening to talk about aspects of their film that I liked. Outside of interviewing filmmakers of films that I saw I also wanted to get familiar with various produces from films I have and haven't seen an just get a better feel for what its like. to work in the field.

Before adding the complex nature of film allow me to say I have never shot photographs of any kind. But it began to simplify with the light meter assisting on shooting. However, I have two large complaints about film.  The first is I have no idea how my photo turned out until their developed so I could have an excellent shot or the shot from hell and have no idea for a day or two. My other complaint is if you mess up one thing anywhere you can kiss the film goodbye, all the shots are ruined. But besides that I'd shoot film again.