The Intern Project: Preproduction
Penguin July 14th, 2009
The Intern Project has quickly moved through pre-production. We spent a short afternoon location scouting and taking reference pictures which I had intended to use for storyboarding. But with this quick time table, I haven’t really been able to do that. Instead, I’ve moved straight into making my shot list.
I’ve been watching Hollywood Camera Works and I wish I took notes. There’s so many things with blocking, shot composition, and camera placement that I know I learned, but just can’t recall. One of the lessons I learned was to think in terms of camera placement and not necessarily in shots, per se. I’m also trying to stay away from “artistic” angles. Since we’re doing something along the lines of “The Office”, we’re going to be shooting a lot of handheld. That’s going to be interesting.
We did have a scare last week where one of our leads dropped out of the project. Her schedule just didn’t allow her to make our shoots. So we scrambled to find someone to take her place. Her character was too important to just cut out completely. Luckily, we secured another actress and was able to get back on track.
From this point on, all the phases of production are going to get mashed together.
We have first drafts for episodes 6 and 7, but they need to be edited and rewritten. I still have episodes 4 and 5 to edit too. Then preproduction on all those. And once we have some scenes in the can, we’re going to start editing them.
It’s going to be crazy, but fun.
-Penguin
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