First meeting with a 'real' client

"A funny tale of monstrous humans and humane monsters with a one-eyed octopus called Barbara and a mouse called Alan thrown in for good measure. Oh and a little girl called Deirdre who isn't quite what she seems..."

Update on assignment

Ok, just a quick update. We are almost finished filming but we still have the second studio scene to film. We did try to film it yesterday but we had some trouble with the actors remembering their lines. But to their defence, there is a lot to memorise and they had not rehersed with eachother before filming. Anyway, today we are re-filming a scene we filmed last week as we just procured some fake blood which looks more realistic than ketchup!
The last pieces to film are a few establishing shots and some random corridor shots.

Stay tuned.

How to make part of an image black & white

A friend of mine asked me this morning how to keep part of an image colour while making the rest of the image black and white. Easy.

Click below for the full tutorial.

A trip to the Zoo!

To give us a break from the tremendous amount of work that we are busy with, my college took us on a trip to the zoo. Here are some of the pictures I took with my neophyte photo-taking skills. Enjoy.
As always, comments are most welcome.

      

Many more pictures in extended article.

A few filming laws

This post is way over-due...

How a web design goes straight to hell! (comic)

Read this and have a chuckle... because it is so true!

My screenplay

Today I wrote the screenplay for the part of the upcoming assignment I will be directing. The first part of the script I wrote alone which was nicely accepted in the class. The second part was typed by me but written by myself and the teacher with a bit of input from the rest of the group.
Below is the script I wrote.

Assignment

Below you will find the Scenario brief we were given for our assignment.

Today we had a group meeting and did the casting as well as the story board. I ended up with the role of Director for the studio scenes as well as the Narrator.

The next job is to start work on the script. I'm really looking forward to it.