I christened the camera with the stereotypical "taking picture in the mirror" picture. Actually it was some other picture and this one was near the end of the roll so I could get it developed, but for the purposes of this photoblog I put it at the beginning despite my strict chronological rule of photoblogging.
BAM! I graduated film school, hooray for me I'm officially unemployed. If you know anyone who wants to give someone a few hundred thousand dollars to make a movie please let me know. Anywho this is Julia (one of my classmates) at the graduation.
Julia and Chad (aka Neutron of the Equipment Room). It looks like it is late at night but it is really only like 4pm. Fear the magic of Film! (The extra capitalization means its serious) This is also the last of the grad day pictures because the place where we held our after party was too dark for photos and also because I didn't bring the camera on the account that I was drinking and that it was the only thing my dad bought with his inheritance. If you want to know more about the graduation check out the next post for it will be filled with highlights (in point form!).
After graduation some of us went on to make a short moviefilm about a musician and the two ladies in his life (his girlfriend and his fantasy girl). Pictured here is the crew minus myself we have Eric (DOP and Camera A operator), Dillon (Director, Writer, Editor, etc.), Byron (Art, Scripty, and fellow Scrubs fanatic), Phil (Grip), Ryan (Camera B Operator), Wes (1st AD and pictured later), and one of the talking prop...I mean actors. Also not pictured is Chris getting behind the scenes footage of me getting behind the scenes pictures.
This is my favorite photo from the production stills I took and not just because it is the one with the best focus. Rather, it showcases one of the things I love about 35mm film: The depth of field control. It is such an amazing tool for getting one's audience to focus there attention where you want it. Also, I have no joke here.
Hey it is everybody's favorite cute but kind of ditzy (Devin I am talking "Deers have teeth?" ditzy here") actress who played a pornstar in a VFS film. She is all kinds of a nice person though and I really like this picture despite the fact that her face is out of focus and the back of her fur hood is crisp as fresh lettuce (iceberg not romaine). The rooftop patio we were on provides a great background...
...Just like the checkerboard interior of the elevator we shot in does (see what I did there? That was a segway). This is the lead actor Jesse (who's name I couldn't remember until I had finished writing this sentence which I then had to go back and re-write to correct my memory error). Jesse plays Otis the semi-famous musician. In this photo he is bringing back groceries to woo his girlfriend with S'mores and Screwdrivers. MMmm that's good lovin'.
And just in case everyone was having too much fun with this photoblog here is the 1st Assistant Director, Wes, in his best AD pose to remind us all that we probably have more important work to be doing and that we are in fact 5 away (5 what? Away from what? Who knows? But it's close...I think!).
-Stu
PS Holding a boom pole on your shoulders for over 30 minutes straight is extremely bad for your back and will result in pain. I learned this for free and now so did you. No charge. Thank me later
