So as noted here before, and it’s a pretty big distinction for how films are crewed and scheduled at The Film School and in the real world, jobs are classified as Above-the-Line (ATL) and Below-The-Line (BTL).
It’s not too hard to remember the difference. Writers, Directors, Producers, and Actors are ATL (as well as their assistants). [...]

Each semester we have a Film Genres class which is basically a screening of a film selected by a different faculty member each week. The following is an incomplete list of the films we watched (I can’t remember all the films) with some links to the complete film, viewable online. They may not be the [...]

I know I poorly explained the film projects we make during our film school experience before, but I think I have a better idea of how everything fits into the next two years (my class, the first year BFAs, graduate Fall 2008).

We had our F1 screening Thursday night at the film school, in the glamor lacking Mix A theater (the space wasn’t designed to be a theater, so the rows are tightly layered, creating one of the most horrible places to sit for prolonged periods of time). The program was well designed and had a summary [...]

Our F1s were shot with a Canon XL1, along with the rest of our weekend projects. It’s always been called a prosumer camera, and now we have a better idea as to why.
>>Geek Speak Warning

…and I haven’t nearly posted all I wanted to about F1s. To the invisible reader: force all your emotion into asking questions in comments about what I should explain, Patrick Swayze style.
We actually locked last week, I just never got around to posting it. What is ‘picture lock?’ The editing is done. You’ve arranged all [...]

Just got back from a 15 hour day as Script Supervisor (I’m beginning to toss the anonymity to the wind). We were shooting in a food store while they were still open for business, so we had to work around the patrons, which wasn’t too bad. However, when one woman saw that a movie was [...]