I'm sure a lot of people here had or are having problems in making their student films.
In the cheap ass student film class I am taking we film everthing on super8. The class has two really good teachers and good equipment for a community college. The class has both Filmmakeing 1 students and Filmmaking 2 in it. Filmmaking 1 students are assigned to do all the work and acting while fillmaking two students supervise, motivate and plan ahead and decide what will be needed for each scene. I'm in filmmaking 2.
When the class first starts they divide up the students into different crews and each crew is responsible for makeing a ten minute short film two filmmaking 2 students are assigned for each crew to help and make sure everyone pulls their own weight.
My crew is severly lacking in eagerness to make a film and therefor I have to really push them to get something done and we are alread a day behind in our schedule of things that need to be shot. So I offered to take some of the workload and film the titles for the short.
When I got home today I realized I need another person to help me do this because the opening titles arn't just going to be white letters on black, they will be created by the wind and gathering dust to fit the short film's title the Dust Bowl (nothing to do with the 1930's era). I know how to create this effect but as I realized too late I need an extra person with me to help otherwize I'm goin wast quite alot of film trying to get this effect by my self. Cue in frustration that none of the crew members besides me are available to do any filming outside of class time (apparently they have these things called jobs).
Now I am racking my brain trying to figure out out of all of my friends who has tommorrow from 1:30 to 4:00 free so that they can help me.
I need to hear other stories of frustration so that I know I am not alone.
In the cheap ass student film class I am taking we film everthing on super8. The class has two really good teachers and good equipment for a community college. The class has both Filmmakeing 1 students and Filmmaking 2 in it. Filmmaking 1 students are assigned to do all the work and acting while fillmaking two students supervise, motivate and plan ahead and decide what will be needed for each scene. I'm in filmmaking 2.
When the class first starts they divide up the students into different crews and each crew is responsible for makeing a ten minute short film two filmmaking 2 students are assigned for each crew to help and make sure everyone pulls their own weight.
My crew is severly lacking in eagerness to make a film and therefor I have to really push them to get something done and we are alread a day behind in our schedule of things that need to be shot. So I offered to take some of the workload and film the titles for the short.
When I got home today I realized I need another person to help me do this because the opening titles arn't just going to be white letters on black, they will be created by the wind and gathering dust to fit the short film's title the Dust Bowl (nothing to do with the 1930's era). I know how to create this effect but as I realized too late I need an extra person with me to help otherwize I'm goin wast quite alot of film trying to get this effect by my self. Cue in frustration that none of the crew members besides me are available to do any filming outside of class time (apparently they have these things called jobs).
Now I am racking my brain trying to figure out out of all of my friends who has tommorrow from 1:30 to 4:00 free so that they can help me.
I need to hear other stories of frustration so that I know I am not alone.
