Showing posts with label it's raining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label it's raining. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

fear

I Art Directed another 4th year York University film recently; written and directed by the fabulous Shannon Fewster (cutester!). It shot from November 19-23, 2009 on many locations with many characters! I only have snaps from a couple of the days though; the classroom and the car scenes. The actual classroom was very bare bones, so we needed to make it fun and math-y looking. The car scene was pretty light for my department, but I got to wrangle some raindrops and how often can you say you've done that~









This still kills me. I know it's so she can see the monitor better, but it still looks like a lunch bag to me.

Check my raindrop skills.

The film won't be completed until the end of the school year, same with Boycatt, so unfortunately I won't know how either of them turned out until I get to see them at the end of year screenings.

Fortunately, I was recently contacted by my director for It's Raining and he's sending me the completed copy of the film. Can't wait to see it! I may be working with him again on his next project, so perhaps you'll be seeing more updates from me on that front.

And now, back to my many remaining final projects for the semester...

Monday, June 29, 2009

it's raining

This film was shot on June 21, 2009. It was written and directed by Will Murphy and is special to me because it was my very first non-student production. It was a simple set up, just a bedroom and a bathroom, but the director trusted me with creative freedom to just bring in whatever and dress it how I felt. That was awesome, because the character who the room belonged to was pretty much in the exact demographic as I am, so a lot of my own things ended up being in the shots.

Worked out pretty well, the end budget for art department was only $4.52, which was spent on pregnancy tests from the dollar store for props. I still find it hilarious that you can buy pregnancy tests at the dollar store. They were perfect though because they were label free.

You can find more stills from the day here in my Flickr set, but here's a few favourites:


realization, originally uploaded by avalilly.


connection, originally uploaded by avalilly.


camera, originally uploaded by avalilly.


blanket, originally uploaded by avalilly.


lil hammer, big hammer, originally uploaded by avalilly.


makeup tears, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Overall it was pretty much the best experience I've had on set to date. There were a handful of industry professionals on the crew that graciously donated their time to help make this film. It was a really interesting change from working on student productions. Everything went by much quicker with a lot less downtime and everyone stuck to their own job, etc. I thought it might be more difficult to work with strangers, but it was a surprisingly lovely experience!

The film is not yet completed last I heard, but I can't wait to see the finished product!