Time to Digitize…

My production group finished filming two weeks prior thus this last class meeting, which was dedicated to group filming, was not particularly productive for my crew, but nonetheless enjoyable. We are now at the point where we await to digitize our film. It seems that the cameras, which were unavailable last week, hold the key to digitizing our film. But with class cooperation I expect that we will be able to mass digitize each group’s footage this coming meeting. Despite being unable to advance in the production of our film, I still found that the class meeting was able to heighten my filming experience. By this time in the production process, many of the filming crews had already filmed or at least were able to experiment with the filming procedure. So for a portion of last class I wandered around collecting some of the other group’s experiences.

Although of little relation to the group film project, I have recently noticed an increased personal attention, or at least recognition, of the student film world. The campus information email system often announces the showing of a student production films. One such email recently announced the premiere of UCA’s first full length feature film, which from my understanding is an impressive feat for a university, especially one of UCA’s size. The email addressed that although many of the students involved had previous filming experience, most of their experiences had been limited to minor productions. It continued to point out that such experience generally limited the scope of their experience. Just as they would be getting comfortable in their specific role of production, the project would be finished. Such short lived exposures to the nature of filming and production were only enough to wet their feet (fairly similar to the experience of this Honor film making course). The recent full length movie project, though, provided many of those film students with the opportunity to oversee the complete spectrum of a full length production. After reading the email I was fairly jealous of the experience that these students had acquired. Although I’m sure they put forth great effort forth, even in an observational role, I feel that the experience that they came away with is certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity. One that many students of this Honors film making class would surely appreciate.