I shoot my thesis in three days. I’ve been going with my “everything works out” attitude, and I know it will, but I won’t lie. I’m starting to panic.
I just need a few simple things, such as a cast and locations. Locations look a little more promising than casting. They at least can’t leave Tallahassee [...]

Unbeknownst to the crew (though I’m sure someone had to notice me balancing a camera on my knee), I grabbed a few shots of the storyboard presentation during director’s prep.

Today is Director’s Prep for my film, and the last for the F3 cycle. Between Production Design and Directing, these past two weeks have been the busiest yet.
I feel slightly unprepared, mainly because I have no cast. But I do have locations, and they’re great, so that’s something. We’ll see how this goes.

For the past couple of week’s we’ve had to pick a scene from our F3, rehearse it with our ATL members, then act it out in front of the class for our directing and acting teachers to see how the scene plays. Then the following week we record the performance and play it back to [...]

On set, one of the main responsibilities of the production team is craft services - the snacks and drinks for the crew to munch on when they have a break. Don’t underestimate the power of good craft services. In our case (and possibly your case) the crew is not getting paid, so the least we [...]

I had another Director’s Prep today and discovered a formality that I never knew existed. This prep was considerably longer than the last one I attended being that it’s a double show, and a quite unique double show at that.
It’s being co-directed, co-written, co-shot, and co-edited by two students who decided to team up. [...]