Nicholas Meyer Blog

Nicholas Meyer FST 201 Blog Assignment #8: Post about the editing experience on the master shot scene project. When planning out and filming our master shot scene, we shot in the mindset of trying to make editing as easy and efficient as possible. We did this by filming shots multiple times, as well as filming many insert shots for the sake of having them. As the sound operator, I tried to make the editor's job easier by starting to record when the director called "rolling" instead of "action". By doing this, I was able to record the director reading off the slate, therefore all the information about the shot was in the first few seconds of each audio recording. I did this so that when our editor was going through all our audio recordings, she would be able to easily label and compiled all of the files, as opposed to having to listen to each one all the way through and make a guess about where each file goes. The hardest part about editing is having ...

Nicholas Meyer FST 201 Blog #6 Previsualization Material Post about the experience of making previsualization materials – how were they helpful?  What was the most difficult of the pre-planning   Pre-planning and making previsualization materials was somewhat of a challenge, but definitely worth the extra work. With the documentary project, filming sometimes felt like shooting from the hip, as we didn't pre-plan, or sketch out our shots or have a full plan on how it was all going to look. By planning out our shots and the visual aesthetic, our master shot project is going to look much more consistent and professional. The most difficult part of making the previsualization materials was , as a group, getting on the same page creatively. During our meetings and communications, we were all very open-minded to each other's ideas, as we all got along very well, however, the script gave us a lot of room to be creative. This was both a good and bad thing; good in ...