I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Every summer UNCSA hosts a summer session for Drama students, Visual Artists, Music, Dancers and Filmmakers. It's 5 weeks long and consists of various workshops and intensives. This summer I applied to work as a Film School TA. It's been a fun ride. My section is section 3, which was my section my first year. 

http://www.uncsa.edu/summersession/filmmaking.htm

Logan and Brian were late on the first day

Every morning we meet at 8:45. The kids then either go to a Directing, Screenwriting, Editing or Cinematography class for a couple of hours. For the first 2 weeks they work on a 5 page script to shoot a 5 minute movie. We talk about story in class and work through any kinks or potential production problems.

In Production Sound class 

$90,000 sound board. 

Sweet note from Jenny

Schedule, script formatting notes and homework

In order to get ready to shoot, the students have to have a locked and approved script. A script breakdown highlighting any locations, props and characters. This way they have an idea of how complicated their film may be. The average film had 4 locations and maybe 3 actors with 3 1/2 hours to shoot the movie. Terrible limitations, but a great way to learn the fundamentals of making a movie.

First production! "Hand Guns"

Dead Matt and Charles

Production Schedule, it was a bitch to make

Trying to figure out 10 student's productions, 10 jobs filming in 8 days was not easy. It was sudoku with humans. This diagram was the best I could do.

Filming the Lamentation of Sally Summershine

Filming "The Mix Up"

Filming our blood bank robbery film

Filming "Vic" with Jake Kath

This was a great way to end my summer because I learned so much from these kids. I also got a chance to remember what it was about film that interested me when I was younger.