Seventh week in School of Digital Filmmaking

This week has been the most demanding so far, but also the most fun. We have been shooting our short films, the ones we hade prepared so much during the preceding weeks.

Everyone had to deliver a whole package of paperwork to receive "greenlight".

The package included script, visual and technical storyboards, budget, legal forms, call sheets, shot lists... and at the same time we had to find locations and actors for our films.

Finally we were all greenlit and I shot my film... so fun! I had a crew of three persons working with me, doing camera, sound and lighting.

It all went well, in spite of a rather high time pressure. I had 74 shots to make in two days, and practically all of them required retakes. And we used both dolly and smoke machine (see picture).

I also was camera operator on two of my classmates' films, and sound operator in one. It was all great fun. Filmmaking is something you learn by doing.

My own short film was about a single father who wants to talk to her teen daughter so much that he locks her in to his apartment (see picture).

Next week we will be editing, and I am both scared and eager to see the result of my filming.

Today there was a national memorial day, and we were all free. A bunch of us went hiking to a waterfall on the other side of the island. It was an incredible experience. We swam in a natural pool and looked up to an about 100 m high, 90 degree steep, waterfall coming down right upon us.
A good ending of a challenging week!