Fiction Never Lies

I was in charge of sound for our Master Shot project. Our director, Brandon preferred to use his own equipment, so we used his Tascam 5D Mark II and two of his shotgun microphones. While Brandon was very helpful in explaining how to use the equipment, I do worry about missing the experience of using the   H4N. However, I expect we will all have access to different equipment next semester, so I will probably have to learn new equipment all over again next semester, anyway. As far as actually recording the sound, it was a pretty straightforward, easy job. The most difficult part of it was keeping the boom microphones out of the shot, supporting them on my shoulders for so long, and using them in a relatively small space in between the two actors. I prefer the editing experience over all of the positions that I have occupied so far in our projects.

Our group had a bit of trouble with the previsualization assignment because it was difficult to get our Director on the same page as everyone else. Overall, this has been the most stressful assignment because I feel like it was a bit rushed. Trying to find time and work with each others schedules is a big issue. I also feel like the Director has not been very forthcoming with his vision. I think he has a lot of great ideas as far as the cinematography, but struggles to explain details that we needed for our previsualization materials. I think, if we had all been able to get on the same page with our director, the previsualization materials would have been a big help, but we were not able to do that. I feel like the previsualization process could have been a lot more productive if we had been able to understand what the director is going for. Hopefully, I will have better experiences with this previsualization process in the future.

My group has not been able to get together yet to discuss our roles due to scheduling conflicts, but I think I would be most useful working with the script, as I hope to be a scriptwriter one day. I think I would be most useful in this role because I would enjoy working with the actual script rather than the technical aspects of the production process. I think I would be best suited to do the lining of the script or putting together the shot list. I am horrible at math, so I think budgeting would probably be the worst possible position for me to be in. I hope that everyone’s schedule works better for is in the coming week and that we are able to come together to decide where everyone’s talents would fit the best. I hope that I am able to get the position that I would fit best in.