Session Number	5
Week Number	5
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:
What was your overall goal for this week?

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/24	Practiced Dolly Zoom Effect	40 Minutes	Due to the lockout we couldn’t begin filming like I planned, but we used this limitation to our advantage to practice a difficult shot.
4/25	Absent called with team	5 Minutes	Yes, for the circumstances, being there would have one thousand times better, but calling my team and communicated with them was the best practice for the situation.
4/26	Filmed the beginning	30 Minutes	Yes, we filmed the beginning of the film, and got several takes.
4/27	Began filming the second segment	45 Minutes	No, I wish we got more shots done, but for the first day I don’t expect everything to rule perfectly.
4/28	Filmed Henry only shots	40 Minutes	Yes, for continuity reasons we could only film Henry.

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Summary

The pre-production of this film was mostly communicating with my team and making sure we are all on the same page for the film.

6. Z-Axis (Rack Focus)

7. Directing the Eye

10. Orientation

15. Rectangular

My concept for the film was take the very human struggle of perfectionism and place it in a space that I was familiar with, which is filmmaking. I wanted to make this film to express the theme of failure and its importance in our lives. I want to show that failure isn’t an end, but a new place for us to learn. My target audience for this film is our film class, by placing this story in the filmmaking world, I hope to make it more relatable to my fellow students and more impactful.

Genre / Style of the Film

For this film it is a Dramatic Comedy shot in style of low budget indie films.

I want to have the overall film look very natural and unprocessed to add to the realism and relatability of the film.

Influences from Other Films

Living in Oblivion and The Disaster Artist are both heavy influences for plot as both films are about filmmakers and their struggles.

Sam Raimi is one my favorite directors and I want to use camera movements and angles in similar fashion that he does.

Consultations with the Production Team

Location Scouting

Casting Decisions

I have worked with Henry on my past 3 films which he played anger characters in all three, I thought he would be a great fit for the role of the Director which is a very angry character. I thought Gavin would be great fit for the Sound Designer character because he is our sound designer and would understand the character. Nathaniel isn’t a huge fan of acting and doesn’t love doing it, so is a great fit for the Actor role, because the Actor is also not a fan of acting.

Permissions

I spoke to Le Duc and gain has verbal permission to film in the green room.

Scheduling

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

I learned how to balance being both the director and cinematographer, and how to blend the two to make my films unique and my own.