How many of you have heard of the Bermuda Triangle? That mysterious place where filmmakers have vanished—dragged down with their movies until they are never heard from again. Okay, I took some artistic liberties with that one. But there is a Filmmaker’s Triangle. A nebulous, moving area composed of three things that feed off of each other. If you see the movie ship headed toward any of the three sides, go the other way! These three things are Stress, Attitude, and Selfishness. The killers of a good time. If you, or anyone in your crew, get caught in these they can ruin the production day, or even the entire movie. Shall we take a cautious look at these deadly three? [Read more →]

Tags: Blog by Rebekah
1 Comment »

We had our last day today.

To start with, we finished up editing this morning. My group was a bit behind schedule, but we managed to finish our movie to our satisfaction.

We then watched a movie that one of our teachers had made. And then we got to critique a film by an alumni of Compass.

Then the parents arrived and we started screening our film shorts. We all got to critique the films made by the other groups.

We also talked a bit about some things that we could do now as high school students to get into film.

Overall, the week was awesome and I had a great time learning about aspects of film that I hadn’t known about previously.

And it’s so nice to write this final post from the iPhone!

Tags: Blog by Jordan
No Comments »

We started out shooting for about two hours this morning, and then we got right into editing. [Read more →]

Tags: Blog by Jordan
No Comments »

Alrighty, here’s day three. Not as many events went on today, so this won’t take too much time to write out.

We started out working on our stories and finishing up our scripts. [Read more →]

Tags: Blog by Jordan
2 Comments »

Okay, today was even more packed than yesterday, but it might compress better! (if that made any sense).

We started out by screening our in-camera films from yesterday. Everybody had fun watching what the other groups came up with, and laughing at our attempts at editing on-camera. [Read more →]

Tags: Blog by Jordan
No Comments »