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they were very welcome to the making of merit if my latest short film that i a
created for my writing and directing
uh... short film class
uh... the requirements of this class to make a five minute short film it was
written by somebody else
and so uh... for knowing chris henderson who worked with before
i wrote me a short film called reaction
which i liked
uh... but i subsequently rewrote it a little bit
added the twist at the very end and retell the meredith
uh... if you're curious though the differences in the scripts i'm going to
sure link below to both scripts you can check them out
freedom and see what difference worst kind of interesting to see how things
evolve
so i'm publishing those down below so you can check them out
uh... up next we have this uh... intro animation this was created by uh...
tailored mosby
who also created the first uh... for willful maker dot com
uh... t-shirt
that you may be familiar with the white t-shirt he designed the logo
per person we see in the movie
uh... after the animation is this uh... still at this uh... static shot a
calendar
to establish the fact that the couple of john amber
there were about to meet her moving out of their apartment
the next uh... we go right into the establishing of the space here with the
white you know the bedroom with a bet on the floor
uh... because they're moving out so they have limited space
uh... the reason that we actually went with the whole moving out motif was
because
the location i originally had in script called for was the first apartment and
lived in apartment
but when i got this apartment was supposed to be furnishes actually
sparsely furnished
with just a couple beds
and a couch and does really basic stuff was obviously lived in this apartment so
vp and i came up with uh... the idea of having it looks like the couple was
moving out
which means if you put the beds on the floor
uh... we could just act boxes which i had access to in the living room in the
kitchen
and uh... problem solved we uh... location didn't work out a way wanted so
we came up with the idea that would make it work unless they do we come up with
solely the bet on the floor
makes sense perfect sense
after we see the calendar and then later the line of dialogue with says only
uh...
john says i'll be glad to get outta here
and
here we have a montage
john amber and busier getting ready for bed
and it's uh...
one thing you can do is if you have some footage and you have any kind of way is
new on at the footage together
uh... you can at the beginning of your movie you style cartoons credits
uh... give yourself uh... summer cut too
if you wanted to jump cuts on their huge fan of job cuts just for the sake of
jump cutting so we had
the credit the title cards and we could use gonna break up
the uh... opening sequence and i can put it together however i wanted because now
i had some were cut doesn't have any kind of condolence that made any sense
to end on amber having their initial discussion
and he reveals to her
he slept with somebody at work
uh... mustn't this is pretty uh... basic shooting here and you know come a high
angle shot which we actually achieve by putting the camera one of the bed frames
that were raised and raised bed frames in this apartment cover dorm type of
apartment
uh... since our shooting almost straight down a quiet
but you know the cruel crane or any other we do that so maybe peeking
through the opening of the bed frame
there is a pretty standard
the most important thing about this scene i think is that
you know all these years prematurely team shots from every angle until the
situation gets more intense and she rolls over
right here and
then we go to a close with him
and then we'll close with her the situation is intensified
so the shots retirements all pretty pleased basic
they should be in cutting here
towards meeting goes
there we go to the kitchen
and hannah gets the cover food on the freezer
uh... music thing about this is several things first of all there's a way in the
freezer and some people have said why israel had the freezer that and that's
not normal
well there really was the way in this freezer
you know we can use the white from the freezer it was built into it because we
had a killer refrigerators power so that the compressor wouldn't turn on a
shooting into a nursing home
so we actually put a practical lied in their and
the courtroom practical light if you look really closely
is running in the corner of the freezer
uh... you can really see it because hannah blocks of most the time you know
in jordan shows up to shut the freezer door
uh... interested so you can see anywhere but it's there if you look at it
aside from that i mean the lights in the scene are there's a light over the sink
and we have a china ball
i will light in it
uh... kind of throwing light into the what is the living room into the kitchen
has real basic lighting well we have is that
the three lights
and i think it worked really well
soon the characters both in the killing of for another interesting shot
common reason that show i was born was because originally i wanted to put that
were recovered in tyre page of dialogue in one shot so i was the park the camera
in the center of the room
have the actors walk around a wall the uh... d_p_ followed them with the camera
so would be kind of a three sixty come spinning
sort of facts with a dizzying affect
but as much as we try to do that shot i just did not work
the audio there was strength was constantly in the shot i was a lot of
sitting under the tripod and jira defusing as he circled critical reactors
will serve improvise the blockage
and it just as a tool
bombing distin not work also i tried in the inverse i work i was trying to do
meaning i plan to camera on the living room lock to down at the kennedy actors
walk in and out of friend circle a camera i think it
worked
and a lot of people told me that they like this scene how it
how it plays out
clearly bad thing about this either pugh also pointed out is that the window
looks like
does look like it's darken
the fact is that when we originally did the scene
uh... it was night outside and we cover the window anyway
and then because that other shot wasn't working we all uh... called it a night
about eleven eleven thirty inside to come back in the morning music then we
came back to when there was lit up
a little bit
and *** i decided not well we just didn't have time
to fix it we really have anything else we could put of the windows already a
black cloth covering it with the light was coming penetrating
cloth so
we had to live with it
aside from that i love this shot
it works
and the actors do a great job here as they feel they do through the whole into
everything
right this is also uh...
huge compliment i feel for
jerod
are uh... senator referral sort ran the gaffer how great to see once again
there's not many lights
here at all there is
the china maulana pushes up to
uh... one side
which is kind of blue cast regain china ball whistle blew gills on it
analyte
uh... from the closet here was probably works to green on the door looks really
green
because
alex freeman the cut to the store with hannah
anna's blue
uh... which is a hacker could have been handled it better by mean
post-production imbalances colors
but i got passed me probably because of time deadlines
by really like to have seen plays out in close up saying the actors will tell you
hear hannah looks beautiful
and performance early she delivers these lines about
when she confesses
uh... which he's been doing a really great
means uh... drizzle treats the debate here
secretary him to when he's looking up at her
that kind of all of the blue
really hits his face nicely and he looked really is just the really
colliding in the c_n_n_ and is really simple lighting this
cup placed in just a right spots again a is a testimony of how
do use technique and its a really really good results
now and really simple tools
as we get to the end here
sort of a book in the in the beginning when they're both on the bed only things
are really different now
in the final gag of course is when he
turns to her nasser b
who she's having an affair with an she isn't jusen co really doesn't say
anything like at the top card really grateful for it would help me on this
movie
we had to person cast who were
wonderful
majority in hannah awesome actors they were moving in a second
then i had a three-man crew it was me
uh... was directing and also basically for stacy year i was handling the slate
and the d_p_
jerry the wonderful job and trim
was uh... gaffer as well as the other guys who his hands full so there's
something that you gleaned from this
that help you make your own
that's why i'm sharing with you the making of meredith
thanks for watching
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