*The budget template has been emailed to each of you.
Bonus Questions/terms/definitions that MAY be on test:
1. What is a Wrangler?
A. A person who is responsible for the care and control of entities used on a set that can't be spoken with. A person who handles someone or something
2. What is Wild Sound?
A. Scenes that are filmed without the sound being recorded at the same time. Dialog and/or sound may be dubbed in later.
3. Who is Johnny Come Lately?
A. A random character who arrives late in the story and saves the day and steals the main characters thunder/spot light.
4. What is a Unit Production Manager?
A. An executive who is responsible to a senior producer for the administration of a particular movie.
5. What is a Stedicam?
A. A camera attached to a camera operator via a mechanical harness which reduces or eliminates the unsteadiness of the operator's motion.
6. What was the first film to win an Oscar?
A. Wings
7. What is a Prop?
A. Anything an actor touches or uses on the set.
8. What is the most expensive movie ever made?
A. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
9. What is Overcranking?
A. The process of speeding the frame rate of a camera up, so that when the captured pictures are played at the normal frame rate the action appears to be in slow motion.
10. What is the highest grossing film ever made?
A. Avatar
11. What is MOS?
A. A take that is filmed without recording sound at the same time. MOS stands for "mit out sound"- it is purported that director Erich Von Stroheim couldn't pronounce "without sound" correctly due to his accent.
I have added in a link covering the subject matter for tomorrows test to the "Classroom" page in this blog. Please take a minute and check it out and study up.
Two more days until the first day of school. We are very excited to get the year started and can't wait to see what this school year brings. Remember you are NOT another brick in the wall!!!
Members of Mustache Films have completed and submitted another project for the SAPD "Say Something" video competition. We are very proud of this project and everyone that made it possible.
NotBotFX and Creep Street clothing are having the video premier of "Hit and Run" Friday May 17th at the 1011 at 10:30pm. Students from the Urban Film School and Machina Cinema helped during production and are invited to attend.
A huge thank you to everyone who voted for "Stage V" in the International Movie Trailer Festival. Though we have not been given the official word it looks like we've won the contest. Stay tuned for more details.
The Alamo Drafthouse Park North will be screening "The Shining" tonight at 7pm and 9:45pm. Any of our 18+ students that are interested should check out this horror masterpiece if this is your cup of tea. Please let me know if you plan to attend.
Just in case anyone didn't read their email, today's music video shoot for "Carlton Zeus" has been cancelled/rescheduled due to an illness with the lead singer.
Mustache Films needs your vote. We are 12 days away from the end of voting for the International Movie Trailer Festival and we need your vote to help us win. Please visit the link below and vote!!!!
Own a camera and want an excellent opportunity to show off your skills? SAFILM is now in search for NON PAID day & night shift photographers for this upcoming festival year. An opportunity for red carpet action experience, meeting filmmaking professionals, and the live action of San Antonio's very own film festival.
For more information or to apply, please contact Adam Rocha at SAFILM@GMAIL.COM with all questions and/or samples of your work.
Is Juan Orol really Mexico's answer to Ed Wood, the maestro behind “Plan 9 from Outer Space”? That's how some have described his career, but not so fast. Where Wood made cheap, incompetent movies about vampires and cross-dressers, Orol made cheap, incompetent musicals about gangsters.
He also was more prolific and successful in directing movies from the 1930s through the '60s, when one of his last films was “The Fantastic World of the Hippies.”
That's what we learn in “The Fantastic World of Juan Orol,” a weird and affectionate movie playing at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
While Wood was played by Johnny Depp for director Tim Burton in the film “Ed Wood,” Orol is incarnated by actor Roberto Sosa, who looks like a scrappy little heartsick Napoleon under the guidance of first-time director Sebastián del Amo.
This movie is in lovely black-and-white flashbacks until Orol discovers washed-out Kodak color in the 1950s, somewhere among his five marriages. With his gift for careless errors and wild ideas — such as a film about cowboys vs. gangsters — the notes call him an “involuntary surrealist.”
Orol's story (at least as pictured here) is no less mighty and colorful than that of Global Lens Initiative, the San Francisco-based firm responsible for SAMA's yearlong film series. In conjunction with many venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, 10 films are traveling the country at the rate of one a month.
Global Lens is now in its 10th year of using film to promote cross-cultural understanding.
“We took a look at the landscape here and abroad and felt that the least understood or exposed populations of the world had wonderful stories to tell,” says chairman and co-founder Susan Weeks Coulter. “Filmmakers from the developing world lack not only a platform, but they lack in many instances finishing funds for their films.
“When we started, things were only being produced on 35mm, so you can imagine the expense and time in a place like Angola. One of the first films we brought to the marketplace was from Angola, and having been in 20 years of civil war, it had taken this young woman eight years to make her film. But when it was finally released, Angola was allowed to participate on a world stage. ... It was not a forgotten entity anymore.”
Having a movie is one thing but finding audiences is another, so funding was only the beginning. Global Lens brings films to festivals, helps find distributors, develops classroom showings and film clubs (like book groups, but for movies), and provides programs for art houses, museums and other exhibitors.
The company's growth has been phenomenal, Coulter says.
“It has been expanding and adjusting to market conditions,” she says. “Way back to 2003, screeners for preview films were all conducted on VHS, so we're talking about a marketplace in which there have been rapid, rapid changes.”
Coulter points to such measures of success as a robust new film industry in Chile, the first indie movie (“Soul of Sand”) to be distributed in Bollywood-dominated India and many films that became their countries' Academy Award submissions. It sounds like an ad hoc international studio for the social media era.
“We make grants so that there's always content in the pipelines,” she says. “Then we acquire rights to films to offer a platform. And those films — we've taken up to 10 a year — are combined in a series called the 'Global Lens,'” she says. “We've made it a policy not to select a film made by a German about what it is to live in Africa. The films we select are made from and for the country of origin.”
Global Lens considers about 350 to 500 titles a year.
“We whittle it down and try to create a smorgasbord of 10 films that are regionally balanced, stylistically interesting, and topically important or have something to say,” she says.
SAMA is the only venue in Texas for this series.
“Since we have a very global collection as well, we feel this is a great pairing,” says Katie Erickson, the museum's director of education. “We often show films that match up with our permanent collections and special exhibitions, and we like how this series explores themes and cultures from all over the world.”
“The Fantastic World of Juan Orol” screens at 7 p.m. Friday (with discussion by UTSA professor Steve Kellman) and 3 p.m. Sunday. It's free with museum admission.
A calendar has been added to the Mustache Films page listing the events and projects we have coming up. This calendar is a useful tool for those of us that have busy schedules outside of school.
Here is the second part of Robert Rodriguez's Ten Minute Film School. Please watch and comment below on how he has changed the face of independent filmmaking.
Urban Film School students Mark Blain, Andrew Morin and Jakob Santana worked the home opener for the San Antonio Scorpions this past Saturday at Toyota Field as a part of Mustache Films internship with LCTV & Machina Cinema. The home team didn't win but it was a great learning experience knowing their production was broadcast live on KSAT 12 and UStream. More pics to come!
Jakob Santana and Andrew Morin representing Mustache Films at Toyota Field
Members of Mustache Films were at Toyota Field Friday night for another run thru for tonights season opener for the San Antonio Scorpions. Three members of our group (Mark Blain, Jakob Santana and Andrew Morin) will be working camera for tonights game. This footage will be seen live on KSAT and online at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/10629071. Please make sure to tune in and support our students!
Friday, April 12, 2013
Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School
ALL FILM STUDENTS!
Please watch and comment below on how Robert Rodriguez has impacted independent filmmaking as it stands today and what this "Ten Minute Film School" has taught you.
Congrats to Jakob, Andrew and Mark who represented Mustache Films and worked with LCTV this past Wednesday shooting the San Antonio Scorpions! These students will be working cameras this Saturday at the season opener.
Saturday, April 13 – Duma (South Africa), running time: 100 minutes A poignant, coming-of-age story about the unbreakable bond between a young Afrikaner named Xan and an orphaned cheetah cub named Duma.
Saturday, May 11 – Whale Rider (New Zealand), running time: 101 minutes Traditions are tested when Pai, an 11-year old girl, believes it is her destiny to be the new chief of the Whangara people.
Saturday, June 8 – Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (France), running time: 99 minutes Two brothers, Azur and Asmar are lovingly cared for by Asmar's gentle mother, who tells them magical stories of her faraway homeland.
***This is an extra credit assignment. Any student that is able to attend this screening will improve their grade in film. Please email Mr. Calvo if you plan to attend.***
Alexander Draghici and Daniel Baldwin in association with Favis Films are pleased to announce their newest feature film, WISDOM, scheduled to film late March in San Antonio, Texas.They are looking forward to being a part of the growing film industry and hope to involve the San Antonio film community.
WISDOM – The story of a man’s mission to help addicts recover in unorthodox ways – disregarding the dangers he could encounter. He walked his healing journey one step at a time…one day at a time…one human at a time.
Directed by Daniel Baldwin
Featuring – Daniel Baldwin and Mayra Leal
Producer – Alexander Draghici
Assistant Director – Raul Carrera
Unit Production Manager – Veronica R. Hernandez
Second Assistant Director – AJ Cast
Executive Producers – Elizabeth Fierstein and Marc Abrahms
(paid) Crew and cast info to be added in the next couple of weeks.
Film teachers and professionals from the Urban Film School had the pleasure of attending the N.A.B. conference this past week. Pics from the conference will be posted soon as we had the pleasure of meeting professionals from Cannon, Dolby Laboratories, Adobe Systems, ARRI Inc., ATOMOS, Panasonic, AVID, B&H, Dana Dolly, Flo Light, Go Pro, JVC, Kino Flo, Litepanels, Manfrotto, Marshall Electronics Inc., Red Digital Cinema, Redrock Micro, Samsung Electronics, TASCAM, Varizoom, Matthews and many others.
Friday, April 5, 2013
San Antonio Scorpions!!!
Mustache Films internship for LCTV (shooting the San Antonio Scorpions) begins this Wednesday April 10th with Jakob Santana, Andrew Morin and Mark Blain working on camera for the seasons first scrimmage game at Toyota Field. This is a great opportunity for the students to work with professionals in a fast paced, high intensity environment. More members of Mustache Films will have the opportunity to intern as well as the season continues. Lets Go Scorpions!!!
Mustache Films wrapped up the second (and final) day of shooting for the Girl In A Coma music video "Adjust". Big thanks to everyone who helped out on the entire production and a shout out to last nights crew: Andrew, Hunter, Triston, Jakob, Deidre, Iris, Mark and Sophie! You guys did great. The video will be rushed into editing and hopefully out early this summer!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
GIAC Shoot Resumes tonight!
Mustache Films will be back on set tonight at the Olmos Park & Trails finishing the second half on the music video for San Antonio's own Girl In A Coma. This will be an exciting shoot as our young actresses join us tonight and there will be lots of special effects work.
(Deidre, Sophie, Jen, Phanie, Nina, Iris, Jakob, Andrew, Mark and Triston on location for first half of GIAC Shoot)
As you all should know by now our very own elite production team Mustache Films is in the finals for the International Movie Trailer Festival. Their movie trailer "Stage V" is currently leading in online public voting but we still need to spread the word to guarantee a victory. Please click on the link below and support the future of filmmaking.
