First time with professional equipment

So, past weekend were very productive to my production process. I borrowed a professional camera, lighting kit, microfone from our school. I was shooting during Saturday and Sunday. It was a huge difference from the camera I had when I was shooting for the trailer. The quality is amazing so I was very satisfied with the equipment. However, I had a hard time with lighting. I was shooting in the evening the dialog of two characters in the room. I tried every angle possible with a few lights surrounding the set but I still didn't manage to get rid of big shadows. It made me very upset and my inspiration was gone in a few minutes. I realized how hard it is to be a few people in one, what I mean is - a screen writer, a cameraman, a producer, an editor and so on. I wish we didn't have to do everything by ourselves, I wish we had a chance to do it in group. I understant that in group work people probably miss lots of stuff just because somebody else does it for everybody else. However, it would be less stressful and probably even more productive.

I am thinking about the poster I have to do for my movies and I feel even more anxious because Photoshop just does not want to be understood by me. I know that it is all practice time but it does not make me feel any better. I am a perfectionist and I want my projects to be excellent, unfortunately it does not always work that way. ANyway, today and tomorrow I will think about the way I want my poster to look. Thursday I will try to make it a reality. Wish me luck!

Busy time of the semester

It's just today that I realized - I still didn't post anything about the critique day of our trailers. I worked so hard to get it done, and it came out not bad but not exactly what I or everybody else in class expected. I got some comments on included pictures in the trailer which didn't make much sense. I kind of agree with that but not completely. I think that pictures probably would look better if I found more picture where my bunny is "really bad" (since my soundtrack for the movie is Michael Jackson's "I'm bad"). I also screwed up my lighting and my camera work...And I actually knew that the lighting throughout the trailer was not good because it was dark and jumped around at some point but I was so excited to be done with my first creation in Final Cut that I didn't even notice any issues with the video itself.

Anyway, I went to the TV center last week to ask for the professional camera, nice microfone and a set of lighting. I'm planning to shoot this weekend if I get approval for all of the equipment. I have several ideas how to make my bunny look "really bad" in the movie, however, I still cannot decide which one to pick. I know that is not good, I was supposed to come up with the script long time ago, but I feel like it's in my head. As soon as I start writing it down on a paper, I'm going to get stuck and won't be able to write anything....

Soon we are going to make our posters. It is exciting but even more stressful to me, because I don't think that Photoshop is my kind of program. As much as I love Final Cut Pro, as much as I want to create things with it, Photoshop is not that easy and not that exciting....Well, keep working!!!