Wade's Film Log

While doing this location research we also had begin planning for our casting calls. For me this was particularly challenging because I was already struggling to describe the film's tone to faculty, and now I was expected to describe the characters and tone without using the working script of the film since I wanted to keep specific details under wraps. It also didn't help that we weren't allowed to post casting calls until after a casting workshop and without proper approval from the school and it was about 3 weeks before I would have to film; in that time I would have to post the call, have a reasonable submission window, have call backs, decide, confirm, sign, and rehearse on top of the other prep work I had to do for my film and the other films. So I got to work. Before we had the casting workshop I was already planning on posting to social media to find a Jordan for my film. Now the last time I posted a casting call to social media I didn't really have too much suc...

One of the quirks with the first semester is the sheer amount of overlap when it comes to pre-production. Now maybe that's just business as usual in the business, but it's something I definitely had to adapt to. Locations was something that was always on my mind, especially considering the idea that I wrote a film to be in a specific kind of location. It was probably around draft #2 where I began to think critically about locations, but I wouldn't actual go location scouting until around draft #3. Because of the way this program works and that I had involvement on 4 other films that would film the same week as my own film, my group and I were recommended to location scout together. We tried our best to coordinate a time for all of us to scout together, but ran into a few difficulties since we had such wide location requirements. An antique store, interrogation room, train station, sorority house, and a sidewalk. While some locations were more common than others the kind of ...