RESPONSE TO REHEARSAL:

RESPONSE TO REHEARSAL:
Once behind the camera, the rehearsal was very nerve racking… Initially, I was so set on perfection that every time the slightest thing went wrong, I re-shot the whole scene from the top of that scene, and after I spent over an hour on the first two scenes I realized, this was ridiculous. After, letting go of my need for a instant excellence the whole process go a whole lot better and I started having fun, and so did the assistant. The most important information that gained from the rehearsal was that I need more than one assistant; I decided that two are essential for the final filming and three would be even better. So, I have added one additional assistant, Katie Benjamin, she is actually the only one who was able to help me last night because Tori my other assistant, was busy. I also made a decision, I would like for Katie to read the voice-overs in addition to myself to see which one of us is easier to understand and sounds more natural. As the rehearsal progressed we had so much fun that we even started adding additional comments and sounds to the original script, which I think really added more of a humorous dynamic to the video. However, one major down fall to this rehearsal is the horrible sound effects I attempted to make were awful. The water sounded like I was beating around in a box and the thunder, well it sounds like microwave popcorn popping. So I need to decide if I want to push this really tacky sound aesthetic or if really natural sound effects would make the video a little more polished. Also, there were a lot of things that I did not have or need to improve, such as, need to finish my dioramas and make the background image larger than 8x10 possibly 11x14 would work better. (I USED BOTH GLOSSY AND MATT PAPER WANT OPINIONS ON WHICH LOOKS BETTER.) Needed more people. Need to find several red color gels for the lighting. Need a fan to make the wind movement and sound, also it was not in the cards for me to use a grill to make grill marks on my meat so I used paint and I kind of liked it but I think the grill marks would look better, or maybe I could blend the two. I needed more in my scenes and I think by enlarging my background I will have more space, and I do not need to do the “storm” scenes in my apartment. Finally, I think that I needed more camera control and a lot more subtle movement, another thing I did to compensate for the color gels was make the white balance more yellow and NOW I think this was a bad idea because I could have edited with the computer instead of compromising the only material I have to work.