Film
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Film Development + GoPro Footage
Lesson Outline
Sebastian is working on storyboarding another scene #The Bathtub to shoot. GoPro footage / organize and edit...
Assignment
Storyboarding; Research; Production Development ; Charging GoPro
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Virtual Camera Experiments
Lesson Outline
Genre - animation - world building and the making of CGI movies: Avatar, Ghost in the Shell, 2001, 2010 Space Odyssey
Assignment
Genre Research
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Online but no camera
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Timelapse,Screenwriting and Worldbuilding
Lesson Outline
Writing scenes for his Zombie movie, Christopher is creating dialogue and character outlines. Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world, sometimes associated with a whole fictional universe.
Assignment
Experiment on location with rough cut footage for scene worldbuilding
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Christopher came online but didn't want to participate, he said he was sick with COVID and not up to doing anything.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Editing Premiere Pro
Lesson Outline
Editing in Premiere Pro Dutch's underwater spearfishing footage
Assignment
Editing Premiere Pro
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
0
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Whiteboard Animation
Lesson Outline
Kellan is beginning to animate his comic books through Whiteboard animation
Assignment
Whiteboard Animation
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
0
Lesson Comments
Absent
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Table Reading / Storyboarding
Lesson Outline
Sebastian and Mercer rehearsed scenes and shot rough cuts to experiment with Mercer's character, who is an anti-hero in the movie. Described as a sociopath, who goes against the group goal to save the world from Quantum. Sebastian created storyboards of the pool scene to be shot on location and completed now, 23 scenes of his move TCUS 3.
Assignment
Storyboarding 2 more scenes
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Film Development
Lesson Outline
Zombie movie development - pre-production - Script in progress, formatting a script was emphasized today
Storyboarding scenes for Christopher's movie; location scouting through Google Earth; Character outline to cast movie; Research Zombie movies... Reviewed his performance footage for the talent show and editing options for upload on YouTube.
Assignment
Storyboarding; Research; Production Development (Remote)
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Film Development
Lesson Outline
Film Development - video rough cuts...
Sebastian has written 20 Scenes and done table reading with Christopher/Dutch for much of the first draft. He has been assigned storyboarding on location (house) 3 scenes (pool, garage, bathroom/hallway) for producer/Sofia to prep equipment. He is shooting rough cuts on video to plan post production green screen and superimposed footage with Dutch (Quantum).
Assignment
Storyboarding; Research; Production Development (Remote)
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Sebastian had trouble coming to class today. He complained about trouble sleeping. He went outside to play with Mercer for 30 minutes. He came in to discuss his progress on the film development.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Film Development
Lesson Outline
Underwater footage introduction to editing - codec formats...
3 clips of underwater GoPro deep-sea spearfishing footage of Wahoo featured on @SpearFishingInternational instagram will be edited and uploaded to our YouTube Talent Channel. He collaborated with Sofia remotely on their scene preparation for the TCUS3 film. They will give "notes" about their characters to the director
Assignment
Storyboarding; Research; Production Development (Remote)
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Film Development
Lesson Outline
Shooting footage / introduction to film editing in Quicktime/in Camera Man with a Camera 1929 Russian Reality Footage - Truth in the Movie Eye...
Since Mercer is very interested in the Horror/Thriller genre - and Russian; Production design and costuming will be part of his course of study.
Assignment
Shoot footage and edit a sequence / research Horror as a genre
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Mercer is very sophisticated in film studies