For those of you wondering what the hell the deal was with the bloody cleaver picture on EXITWOUND all week, here’s the scoop:
Last weekend (Friday through Sunday) I shot production stills for a student short film. Francis Choung (who some of you might know as the drummer/Korean of FMTM) was the director. I’m pretty sure he wrote it, too. It’s called Father’s Keeper.
Overall, the shoot was quite a learning experience. I think a lot of people take for granted the work involved in producing a film. It can require a staggering amount of time to block, light, rehearse, and film even a ten second shot. Furniture has to be moved, lights set up, things measured, mags changed, and who knows what the hell else was going on that I didn’t understand. The final cut of the short is to be between five and seven minutes, but it took forty hours to set up and film about seventy minutes of footage. Crazy.
It’s quite exhausting. And really, I didn’t do shit. I just stood around and took pictures, but I was fucking beat at the end of each day of shooting.
It was a lot of fun, though. I would definitely do it again.
Anyway, over the three day shoot, I took close to 1200 photos. About half of them were trashed for being either out of focus or shaky (a good amount of stuff from Day 1 was junked because I didn’t think I needed a tripod) (I was wrong, obviously). About half of the remainder were at least clear, but they weren’t all that interesting. And that left about 300 that were good to great.
I posted 120 of those for Francis to check out. Most of them need to have their white balances corrected and some of them need to be cropped (which I didn’t do because I just wanted to get them up), but otherwise they’re the best of the bunch. I won’t be posting any of them to XW proper, so this will be the only place to see them (unless they make their way into an eventual press kit).
Have a look.
