Personal Narrative: My Team Work

I think this was your first time to work with Andie MacDowell. What was it like working with her? Any behind-the-scenes stories?

The first five weeks of this assignment nobody within my group was willing to make an actaul effort outside of class to make time to film and organise how we would approach this assignment. Leaving me to do basically all of the work from ideas, shot lists and organising everyone to meet and film, while Nick (Nicholas Aw) did some of the filming on his own I was left to do 90% of the moving camera work as Lahi and Anna disapeared for a solid hour during filming after returning the Dolly equiptment. From there I edited the assignment together as I’d originally offered to do the editing as I have the Final Cut Pro software on my Laptop. The entire group came up with the idea for the assingment and how we would approach it after we agreed on the idea. Production wise that Role went to myself as I took lead in the group and organised times and shot lists. However, after an chat and email to Louise after class, I stepped back as discussed, but still I have had to find out if anyone was doing any work and doing a small amount of editing and trying to explain that this assignment was about incorporating the moving camera technique not narrative and this has not really been done in the final assignment as the majority of the assignment footage is still shots.

Our overall plan was to flat out have the interviews that we had and record them with the old school song mary jane. Once we continued to collaborate we decided on a more image approach. The challenges after the thought out plan where everyone putting in the work for editing the video. Charles didn’t help that much other than recording himself for the voice over. Alanna and Takiyah both put the work in to get the video looking nice. The transitional effects that we used in the video was so that we could make it less choppy and flow

Throughout the course of our lives, we must collaborate with people who may have completely different upbringings and have vastly different belief systems than what we may hold ourselves. One scenario in my life in which I had to collaborate with someone different than me was when I had to work with an overly aggressive football player who was a year younger. He started on the freshmen team but soon became the starting quarterback of the varsity team when he was a sophomore. I was on the JV team and was the backup quarterback both my junior and sophomore year. We came from different social groups, and I worried that we would not get along on or off of the field.

One of the biggest lessons I learned throughout the shoot was the value of maintaining a positive attitude, even when in stressful situations. While I myself tried my best not to ever come across as negative, there were a few instances where other members of the production team came across as tense or even slightly antagonistic toward me. When these events happened, it caused me to feel insecure about the work I was doing. Instead of motivating me to work harder, it only made me feel unhelpful. In my opinion, treating people respectfully and maintaining a positive attitude is a better form of motivation than antagonism, especially when you are in a position such as 1st AD. I’ve found people are more willing to cooperate when you lead with kindness rather than in a dictatorial manner. Furthermore, another thing I plan on continuing to do is ensuring that there is good communication between the Assistant Directors. One of the aspects that I thought worked very well on this shoot was that Savannah (the other AD) and I tried to work as a team as much as possible. As a result, we made sure to communicate as much as possible so we each knew when we were needed, how we were needed, and when the crew was filming among other things. This helped me feel like I was part of team and, in my opinion, helped make the shoot run more

After a challenging move from De Pere to Sturgeon Bay between my freshman and sophomore year, I can officially say that I have adapted well to my new community. In the beginning of sophomore year, one of my goals was to become as involved in my new high school as I was my old high school. I have accomplished that by becoming a part of the soccer team and joining a variety of clubs that all mean a lot to me. For example, A-Team works with other students that have learning disabilities to make social interaction a little more comfortable. In my opinion, creating a better learning environment for them not only benefits all of the students in that environment but it feels really rewarding.

The costuming for Irena’s vow, while excellent, could’ve been a bit more accurate, as the theatre was in the round and we were so close being able to see some more detailing in the costumes would’ve been nice, as well as having Ida Hallar, Lazar Hallar and Fanka Silberman change their clothes at some point, as they were in the same costumes

Throughout the fiscal year I was working as member of both teams Read and Blue. Time spent in Blue team allowed me to get knowledge in technical and functional areas needed to support DC4. Working in Red team I got a chance to navigate thru ambiguous situations, from working on many different applications and various different front line cases.

I worked steadily in the mountains to film a beautiful setting with a beautiful message. I then filmed a scene near my pond fishing with Clark Kistler. I then went with the whole Reedy Ridge team down to the family farm, where we went on a turkey hunt showing off our gear in the great outdoors. Once all the videos had been taken I began editing the videos making the documentary have a background noise and captions. Once all the editing had taken place I asked my mentor to critique the video and give any words of advice. He told me that I needed to raise the volume, and add more color to the frame. Once I had finished correcting all my mistakes, I began a youtube channel, and began showing people the

As the process of filming went under way with a redrafted script and A/V script, everything seemed as if it was going to run smoothly. Although I was not part of the set building team of for that matter costume design it must be said that the overall mystique that was created between the two held extremely true to the period of the piece and elevated it as such. Most of the beginning of the day having been used to execute this I myself went over the A/V script with camera operators and gave them insight to shots and required and asked of them was there any problems in achieving these shots. I found this to be rather important as it was something neglected during the rehearsal, and in the finished piece I found that this did justice to the

Hayden was the director he did the hard work for us he wrote the lyrics. Ronaldo was the one that said action for us. Jack was the one who took the video of the rap except when it was his part then Hayden took over the camera. I was the boom operator. All of us help set up and put back the equipment. There was only a few things I would change which was when Jack was camera rolling he didn’t move the camera so much. Also thoroughly reading the directions before saying we were done with our film because there was a few things we didn’t have that was pretty important.

Once we have our own ‘CS Charming EPK crew’ in place we can liaise with them in partnership with Vicky, yourself, Angela etc to organise the shooting schedule within the studio.

When I review the video I created with Julia, Sophie, and Sarah, I find that there were things we did not perfectly portray and things that we portrayed well. It was difficult to create certain things with our specific model choice and things that we just didn’t completely understand at the time we created our model.

Marianne joins from the renowned Vancouver Film School, where as Head of Animation & Visual Effects she was responsible for 300 graduates per year and a 65 strong faculty. Having started her career at Rainmaker Entertainment as a visual effects producer, Marianne progressed to the role of President of the visual effects and animation division. During her tenure Marianne helmed an award-winning team of producers, supervisors, artists, department heads and administration in Vancouver and London. Other notable career highlights include effectively leading all aspects of the Vancouver & London CIS facilities, while navigating the successful transition from Rainmaker to CIS upon purchase by Deluxe Entertainment in 2008.

All post production, regardless of the type of project, shares a common set of processes. Our department’s method of edit-color-mix-delivery is geared toward finishing short pieces with chaotic schedules. Typical broadcast finishing tilts toward longer schedules with more regimented turnovers and asset control. After meeting with the client’s head of post production to discuss their needs, my estimation of unscripted broadcast finishing was that it lived in between. Encouraged I had found a parallel to build upon, I spent a day quizzing my counterparts in the Broadcast Services group about the correspondence in finishing techniques between our groups and started sketching out a workflow.