Week 4

This past week, we started shooting the actual video! It was very successful, but a couple scenes are going to be reshot tomorrow just to make sure everything is perfect. Here are some pictures from the shoot! (Click to enlarge)

 
 

Here's a screenshot from some of the unedited footage for the short!

For more of these shots and more detailed information about how the shoot went, check out our director of photography's blog here.

Jacob, Kevin, and William have been working on the VFX for the explosion at Kinney Hall. Here's a rough video of what they have so far!

Check out William's blog for more information on how that process is going.

We need to reshoot a couple scenes from Tuesday, so everyone needs to come in on Tuesday, Oct 30 at 9 am. We are also going to go over different stuff once we finished the few scenes we have to shoot. 

We only have a few scenes left that need to be filmed, and we will not need any extras for them. So Thursday, October 25 only the puppet crew, film crew, documentary crew, Jake B and Kevin H have to show up to the meeting at 8 am. 

Marketing and post-production crew does not need to show up, just make sure to post on your blogs what you worked on and keep in contact with Don. 

Week 3

The script has been finalized and the puppet is finished. We start shooting first thing tomorrow morning! 

Click here for Jake's final version of the script.

Jake will also be giving life to our puppet, Murphy!

Our director made some notes on the process of the puppet construction:

Here is our finished puppet. Meet MURPHY!

The documentary crew continued shooting interviews this week, including one with our director.

They also continued documenting the rest of the team as they worked.

Jacob A. has been working on the effects for the explosion scene at the end of the film. Here's some of what he has so far!

Kevin H. created this motion graphics example for the CCAD logo that will be shown at the end of the film.




The story team has now become the marketing team, and they have been brainstorming possible titles and poster designs for the film. They are getting together on Tuesday to decide those things. Check out their individual blogs for their ideas!


Chelsea T.
Emily C.
Beth W.
Taylor H.
Catherine C.

Just another quick review and reminder for our next meeting Tuesday, October 23 at 8 am. 

For our next meeting all Film crew and Documentary crew have to show up at 8 am because we are going to begin filming. Everyone else please come as extras. If you are a commuter you do not have to show up if you do not want to be in the film. We may end up sending people home if we have too many people. Everyone that can show up please do because too many is always better than too few. 

We have a puppet actor! Jake Bova will be giving Murphy life.

Also the Marketing crew is going to have title pitches for project Yoakam next week for posters and competitions.

Everything is going great, we are making awesome progress. Lets keep it up for the final 3 weeks for this project! 

Thanks!

Hello everyone,

Here's what we went over today and what is expected for our next meeting, Thursday, October 18 at 9 am. 

   Today we went over Marketing and appointed Marketing Director and crew. We discussed the marketing team should begin looking at different film festivals or competitions Project Yoakam should be entered at. Also the marketing team should start thinking about the blog banner and posters.

Marketing director: Chelsea T.

                 Crew:

                            Beth W.

                            Emily C

                            Taylor H.

                            Catherine C.

    We also discussed puppet acting briefly and Jake and Kevin both volunteered to be Murphy. Thursday we will talk more about this and if anyone else is interested in being the puppet Thursday would be the time to speak up.

    Thursday we will also do a group read of the script. 

   Just a reminder Individual blog posts are all due on Sundays at midnight.

Week 2!

Everyone on our team made a lot of progress on the project this week, so there's a lot to cover!

Story

The script was written, and the storyboards were drawn by Beth W. and Chelsea T. Here is the complete storyboard. (Click to enlarge)

Our director, Don, made some notes/revisions to the storyboards, and you can see/read those on his blog.

Here's the script, which is currently being edited/formatted by Emily A.

Puppet Design/Construction

The design of the puppet (Murphy) was also finalized this week. The materials were gathered and construction began this weekend. Here is Murphy's color palette.

Here's a shot of Jennifer G. working on the puppet. You can see more images in a detailed, step-by-step documentation of her process on her blog.

Film
The film crew scouted/photographed some potential locations for shooting.

Documentary
The documentary crew was also hard at work, capturing every moment of each team's process, and collecting interviews for the making-of video.

Gwen C.

Brittany D.

Here are some screenshots of their footage/interviews with the rest of the team.

Story team

Puppet crew

Read a little more about the documentary over at the director of the documentary's blog.

Every week, each team member has also been updating their individual blogs with what they are doing for the project, and you can check those out on the sidebar to the right!