A couple of mistakes I made on the second days of shooting: I chose to shoot Fay for the silhouette sunrise then I was rushing Gerard on his shots and we missed the light. The shots with him were complete unusable. The folding paper shots looked grotty and the last shot of the film had a dreadful background. I decided to go back to Coogee beach for another shoot. The crew were only Ben, Joy, Elham and Stilgherrian and it was only for Gerard so that I could concentrate on him. The call was half an hour earlier since we hit spring time.
The plan was to keep Gerard slow and keep him looking at the camera. I finally got the shot I wanted with sunrise on him.
7 September 2009
This is the memoir of how my major project at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, unfolds. We, Master of Digital Media students, were asked to write a blog about our projects on the schools server. This film is very much personal since it is mainly about mental illness and I am currently climbing out of the depression. I hope that the experience of making this short film would share what I have been going through and will make some awareness of the issue.
- Initial Plot
- The Magician
- Got Stuck
- Out of the Hole
- Style Breakdown
- Tasks Breakdown
- Pitching the Project
- The Casting
- Semester Break Update
- Big Questions, Slow Start
- Locations, Locations, Locations
- Rough Storyboard
- Meet the Cast
- Folding a Boat
- The Big Day
- The Record Session
- Re-Shoot
- Post-Production Juggling
- Almost There
- A Nightmare Comes True
- The Tangible One
- The Final Touch
- The Screening
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