Class Days 4 and 5

I love my school! Don't be surprised if you hear that often. I'm finding that my school is like a "Please Touch Museum".

Yesterday, my class went to Griffith Park to play with cameras. The ideas behind the exercises were to ensure that everyone learned how lighting and focus worked. I know that I had my mind blown when my teacher started to talk about measuring distance and pulling focus and all of this other stuff that sounded like some mambo jumbo. Let's just say that I was sitting in my Cinematography class wondering if I would ever be able to figure out how to get a subject in focus. I don't know about you, but I just assumed that the camera would auto focus. Don't regular video cameras do that? After spending 4 hours filming in the park, I decided that cinematography is not for me, and that I obviously made the correct decision when I decided I wanted to direct.

Today, we went to the Universal Studios props and wardrobe building. It's one of the largest in the country and houses anything that Universal Studios has used on a film or television set since 1912. If I wanted to make a movie with a gown from Gone with the Wind, and have ET wearing it - I could do that. Crazy! This place was so gigantic. And it had everything you could ever imagine, and all so organized. Despite it being well organized, I still started to feel overwhelmed by how much it reminded me of something like the world's largest thrift store. I could just imagine how I might find myself spending hours sorting through item after item. I'm not going to get ahead of myself. I'll stress out about shopping there when the time comes. In the film that I'm making this weekend, I already have all of the props that I need. Yay!