Tag: Summer Film Workshop

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Let's Break it Down

It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I wanted to come back with a bang. Micah and I recently wrapped up the 2010 Summer Film Workshop where 12 high school and college age kids put up with us for a week of film theory lectures, tutorials, and film screenings. As part of the class we shot a movie trailer of a fake action movie entitled “The UnRetireds”. We tried to throw in a bunch of silly over-the-top action movie moments into the trailer and here a few of the shots broken down by their elements to show how they were put together. I always love these little videos in the behind the scenes extras they put on DVD’s so I figured I’d take a crack at one. Special thanks goes to Andrew Kramer and his invaluable Action Movie Essential Elements. We’ll post the finished trailer online soon but until then enjoy this sneak peak.

-Matthew

Visual FX Breakdown Video

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It's Movies!

As promised, here are the short films produced by the students in the Ole Miss Summer Film Workshop that Micah and I taught this week. Each group was given the premise of a couple who are both having an online affair. They’re meeting for dinner to tell the other only to discover their actually each other’s online admirer. The groups were given a different genre and tasked with writing the script, drawing the storyboards, lighting, shooting, and directing the scene to fit that genre. The selected genres were “drama”, “documentary”, and “thriller”. What results is a great exercise in how differently the same story can be told. The class worked really hard and we all had a great time making their short films. Enjoy.

– Matthew

Group 1 – Drama “THE ESCAPE”

Written and Directed by Suad Patton Bey, Kagan Doom, Felicity Flesher, and Elizabeth Long.

Group 2 – Documentary “THE PERILS OF INTERNET DATING”

Written and Directed by Wilma E. Mosley Clopton, Daniel Morrow, and Greg Hawks.

Group 3 – Thriller “WAITING TO DIE”

Written and Directed by Harris DeGutis, Joseph Newchurch, and Glen O’Reilly