STUDIO 3 - WEEK 5

It’s the begging of week 5 and I couldn’t attend the first classes on Sunday because I felt stressed and sick and it’s not the first time this is happening to me, so I contacted both my executive producer and art director sending them the work I’ve done so far, so the art director can show whatever work have been done to our lecturer Fred, in the meantime I think it’s a better idea to go to the hospital for a full checkup.

So far I have 2 lists one is the list of Props and the second one is a developing list for the wardrobes and make-up all though I’m not the best person to talk to about make-up so I will definitely advice our director and producer to hire a make-up artist, I already know someone and I think she’s still studying at my college so I’ll get in touch with her to arrange a meeting discussing the project with her and our director and producer if they’re fine with hiring a make-up artist, at least we won’t need to buy any make-up which can be expensive but instead it will be provided by the make-up artist.

Back to the 2 lists, one list is a 1^st draft of the Props list, my second draft will be as organized as the 2^nd draft of wardrobes and accessories, it will have proper categorization and I will combine props with locations, for example instead of putting the prop ‘’food bowl’’ in 2-3 different locations or categories I will just add the 2-3 different locations into one category under the food bowl and so on, for the 2^nd list I’ve made, is a 2^nd draft of wardrobes and accessories and it look much better than the 1^st draft that looked a bit out of place, of course that doesn’t mean I won’t make any more lists for the wardrobes, the 3^rd draft of the wardrobes list will contain actor measurements and eventually pictures of every single wardrobe and accessories organized into one list with a serial number to make it easier to categorize the items and to find them and put them back.

I still spent my last weekend going to a location just to study the props they have and the cost, to have a better idea of what I’m getting myself into and it is definitely a helper to know the cost so I could make a list of props and how much money is needed, the budgeting list will be sent to the Art director to double check it and approve and then to the producer for final approval to receive the budget and eventually get the props.

For this week instead of having 2 classes with Fred, we also took a third class with him which was supposed to be design camp, Fred talked more of what was talking about in the previous class I couldn’t attend which was subtext in films and also more feedback on the scripts from each group, this is my first class with Fred the advices and tips he gave us on scriptwriting were really helpful especially the making of a timeline in a script, I started working with that and it really helps.

We also had an additional class with our executive producer where he got through a very, very helpful software called ‘’movie magic scheduling’’ it’s basically the type of software that breaks every box or section from a script and it fleshes out smoothly, our Producer and 1^st AD took turns filling up the scheduling, as for me I sat with the Director/writer creating a new character breakdown and we got it done very fast because we’re not really breaking the characters down for the first time but basically going through some old information but developing them or replacing some details in the breakdown.

 We also had a meeting with our executive producer on Wednesday of week 5, a discussion to talk about the progress, what should’ve been already done and what we can do now to fix our situation with the film, me and my Art director already started breaking down the new fixed script, I will be handling some of the wardrobes for the characters and definitely the props while my Art director will be handling some of the wardrobes as well and the settings for the locations, Everything will be ready before the end of this weekend. Also a reminder that we will have a digital meeting with our executive producer this Saturday of week 5 just to show him exactly what have been made and how much work we still have left. I’m very glad we talked with our executive producer as he’s already helping us to progress with the project.