Citizens,
Robin here again. I just had another memory I thought you would enjoy: how joey and I made our costumes. I won't tell you the whole story now, because that is a story worthy of at least a two part episode! Holy Jaming Journal Entries!
Needless to say, Joey and I turned his living room into a costume shop when we were making what we call our "hero costumes" (the good ones) versus our "classic costumes" (the bad ones). It was insane. Fabric was everywhere. There were pictures of every angle we could find of batman and robin lying on the table.
I was seated at a table working on sewing a zipper on joey's boots. Joey was curled up on the floor designing a pattern for my cape. It was at that point I realized that it was a friday night and I was making a batman costume. I laughed and asked Joey, "Did you ever think that on a saturday in july you'd be sewing?" and he had to laugh and say no. Yeah, I think the thing we both remember fondly about Batman is the lengths we went to to make the project accurate. And that was just the beginning.
KAPOW!
Robin
Thursday, March 31, 2005
The Technicals of Film Making
Citizens,
Robin here. I know most have probably been wondering: Batman is on the scene here. Where has Robin been? Robin has been learning a very hard lesson: classes + internship + leading club + girlfriend = no time to be a super hero.
I thought I would take the time in this post to talk about some of the technical aspects of film making. For the most part, this has been my side of the dynamic duo. Batman has helped on numerous times with ideas and concepts: many of which saved us hours at a time. And that is exactly what I am getting at: the time spent doing the actual filming.
It was the last few weeks in June 2004. Joey and I sat down to plan out the rest of our movie. In other words, what days we were going to shoot which scenes. For the most part we assumed we had a month to film 2 episodes of Batman (30 minutes each). Easily, we planned we had to shoot about 2-3 scenes weekly. In other words, good bye summer. We had to fit filming around work which became a huge challenge due to Joey's rapidly changing work schedule. Plus, Joey and I were on the set for about 5 hours a day. 1 hour for prep and then actually 4 hours of shooting.
And lets not forget the problem of finding extras. We had a huge problem of getting people to fill the roles of both villians and heroes. The biggest problem was finding the same people to play the same roles (a huge problem in our first and second episode.) For the most part, we kept the same cast through out the film, but with a few minor problems.
In short, filming is a huge sucking of time. I don't even want to go into editing. Seriously, you can edit film for like 6 hours and barely get anything done. Trust me, I know. Well, as I always think when I load up the truck to go film another scene of a project:
It isn't the filming I love. It isn't the editing I love. It isn't the scripting I love. The only parts of making film that make it worth while are the drive to the location imagining how awesome and problem free the shoot will be and the first time you show the film. Those feelings alone are enough to make it worth while to this super hero.
KAPOW!
Robin
Robin here. I know most have probably been wondering: Batman is on the scene here. Where has Robin been? Robin has been learning a very hard lesson: classes + internship + leading club + girlfriend = no time to be a super hero.
I thought I would take the time in this post to talk about some of the technical aspects of film making. For the most part, this has been my side of the dynamic duo. Batman has helped on numerous times with ideas and concepts: many of which saved us hours at a time. And that is exactly what I am getting at: the time spent doing the actual filming.
It was the last few weeks in June 2004. Joey and I sat down to plan out the rest of our movie. In other words, what days we were going to shoot which scenes. For the most part we assumed we had a month to film 2 episodes of Batman (30 minutes each). Easily, we planned we had to shoot about 2-3 scenes weekly. In other words, good bye summer. We had to fit filming around work which became a huge challenge due to Joey's rapidly changing work schedule. Plus, Joey and I were on the set for about 5 hours a day. 1 hour for prep and then actually 4 hours of shooting.
And lets not forget the problem of finding extras. We had a huge problem of getting people to fill the roles of both villians and heroes. The biggest problem was finding the same people to play the same roles (a huge problem in our first and second episode.) For the most part, we kept the same cast through out the film, but with a few minor problems.
In short, filming is a huge sucking of time. I don't even want to go into editing. Seriously, you can edit film for like 6 hours and barely get anything done. Trust me, I know. Well, as I always think when I load up the truck to go film another scene of a project:
It isn't the filming I love. It isn't the editing I love. It isn't the scripting I love. The only parts of making film that make it worth while are the drive to the location imagining how awesome and problem free the shoot will be and the first time you show the film. Those feelings alone are enough to make it worth while to this super hero.
KAPOW!
Robin
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