Wade's Film Log

  With dates, actors, crew, locations, and equipment all confirmed it was finally time to do what I wasn't able to achieve prior making it to production. On Saturday March 29th, Sam and I got up bright and early and went to the Dirac library on campus where we would meet our lead Nico. This day was slated to be when we would shoot our "good time" moments at Lake Ella, but before we got there we had to record Nico's VO. Whenever we had to schedule production meetings the FSU libraries website allows for rooms in either of their two libraries to be reserved. Now I'm biased because Dirac was closer to my dorm and has a pretty interior design layout, BUT more importantly Dirac was home to FSU's only public Media Suite, that is also criminally underused. The room comes with a Mac Mini, two monitors, speakers, microphones, stands, soundproofing walls, the Adobe Suite, and countless podcasting/audio programs.  For the session, Sam would be monitoring audio levels and...

In the last post, I spoke about my on-camera talent, so this post will detail the talent behind the camera. To begin, we have my wonderful Producer/Production Designer/Intimacy Coordinator: Sam Perez Laurenza. In all honesty, Sam was always going to be a part of this project, it was mostly a hope of getting Sam somewhere I knew they'd be best in. Sam and I in the past both produced a weekly news show during our time in High School, so I knew they were qualified more so than some of the other options I had at the time. As an effective communicator they were the one doing a lot of the contacting of people and holding me to a deadline. They also helped to get me out of few pickles here and there especially with the whole casting call flop when we only had 2 auditions for only 1 of the characters. They also helped a lot during production making sure we'd stay on schedule, ordering food, and as well as serving as another pair of eyes when I wanted another opinion on a shot.  In term...

    In the last post I mentioned that me and my producer had scheduled to post the Casting Call on Instagram in search for actors. I admit I've never done this before for a couple reasons. Commonly in High School whether it'd be for my TV program or for AICE Media Studies, people were generally pretty busy. For as much as counselors will promote the idea to "take classes that will be best for you", the modern day college application process as well as said counselors' hypocritical advertisement for AP and AICE level courses.  In one annoying examples, I had finished my required 4 math credits by the end of my Junior year and wanted to take a digital art/animation class my senior year, but my counselor refused to let me leave the room without picking a math class since "colleges want that". Regardless of the fact that I was clearly an TV/Film and arts oriented individual, I was forced to agree and she put in Pre-Calc even though there would no Calc class ...