The Digital Filmmaking Project at St. Benedict's Prep, Newark, NJ

Presented here are the thoughts, and the films produced by the students in the Digital Filmmaking Project at St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

George: Filmaking Experiences

Our second trip was to Hoboken in Jersey city. We took the train from Penn station to Hoboken and it was my first train ride. The project was to create your own script and compare with the other people's script. My group was Chris S, Anthony J, Tony D, and Omar B. We chose Chris' script. So we went to go to Hoboken to film Chris' script. We had a lot of footage and my group worked diligently. So we had finished early. After we were finished we went to have lunch the left.
Our third trip was at seaport New York. Our assignment was to film cut aways for a music video. The music was assigned to us and had to be creative. Seaport was really hot but was a good sight. We walked around and stopped at parks to shoot our cutaways. Or group was the same people with the NJPAC and the Hoboken trip. Our group, I feel, was the best group because, as Dr. Lansang said " You can have fun without being funny." That's exactly what we did. We had fun by filming but didn't have to act like clowns.
Our last trip was to midtown New York which was the most crowded part of New York. The assignment was also to shoot cutaways for a music video. For transportation we used the train for every trip instead of NJPAC because it wasn't far to walk. We didn't get a lot of footage but still did some work. It was a good experience that I wouldn't forget. We had some creative ideas that we shot. It was a long walk but it was worth the walk because it was really fun. My group was the same and again they worked well and didn't have any problems. While we were finishing up our work we went into the biggest toys r us that I have seen. This whole class was a great learning experience and I wouldn't forget about it.
The book we are reading is a easy book to read, well for me it is because it gave me the amateur vision of film making. Mr. Figgis tells you all you need to know about film making. He is a professional director and helped me to understand some of the basics of film making. The book was written to help people understand the basics and how to become a better Filmmaker.

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