Kyle's Super Swag Film Blog

After completing my first film during the crazy times we now live in, I decided that focusing on something less character driven could be a good idea for my next project. Over the past year I have begun to reflect on myself as a person and what it is to be myself. This period of growth has definitely helped me grow as a person and the concept of self reflection seems like it could work for a film where I can't have a large amount of actors. Unlike most of my other films, this project will likely be more "artsy" as it will focus more on visuals and narration rather than a plot. The following is a collection of the ideas and pre-production work I have completed for this next film. Concept As I stated above, the film will mainly focus on the theme of self reflection. I feel that this way, the film can be told through narration from one character talking to himself rather than having to assemble multiple actors and have them physically act together. The concept of the film is

Over the past couple years the technique of Digital Aging/De-Aging has begun to show up in a growing number of films and TV shows. From making an actor look younger like they used to, aging an actor up to what they might look like, and even bringing actors back from the dead, digital aging and de-aging has changed a lot about how actors can look. With the technology only now reaching a usable form, filmmakers, studios, and actors now face the question of it's use in filmmaking today. Why Digital Age/De-Age? Using digital aging and de-aging of actors can lead to multiple different filmmaking techniques that wouldn't be as possible without it. One example of this is that by digitally aging and de-aging actors the filmmaker is given more freedom as to how much of a characters life they want to portray. While different actors could take the main actors place to show aging, digital aging and de-aging can permit a single actor to look whatever age the script desires. This also create

Recently for English class, I gave a speech about Akira Kurosawa and his influence as a filmmaker. One of my talking points during the speech was about Kurosawa's influential use of cutting between shots. During the speech, I touched upon how the cutting during an action scene within a modern day film differed in comparison to one of Kurosawa's films. After analyzing the two clips, I was curious to see if there was a similar difference for cutting between shots during dialogue. Dialogue generally doesn't seem to have changed much in formula over the years, but I still find it interesting to see if this filmmaking fundamental has changed at all overtime. For testing, I selected three dialogue heavy clips from Psycho (1960), Stand by Me (1986), and Joker  (2019). Psycho Scene The scene that I analyzed from Psycho  was the scene where Arbogast interrogated Norman in front of the motel. For the purposes of this analysis, I began the clip at twenty-five seconds within and analyz

During Black Friday this year I made a purchase that I am super happy about. I finally upgraded from my Canon T6, which is meant to be a stills camera, to a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k (Bmpcc4k). This was definitely a large purchase for me, but it was also a purchase that I feel will help me both now and later in my professional life. By purchasing the camera, I also received a free copy of DaVinci Resolve studio. The purpose of this blog post is for me to discuss features of this camera that I intend to use as well as DaVinci Resolve. ( Link to image ) 4k Recording And 120 High Frame Rate As technology advances, the resolution we consume media does as well. While 1080p HD video is still the most common resolution to watch a video in at home, 4k media is quickly becoming more popular. Since my Canon T6 was only really meant to take pictures, it's video recording was limited to 1080p at 24 fps. While there isn't anything wrong with this, it doesn't leave much room fo

Over the past couple weeks I have worked to finish my film and complete the post production stage of the project. During this time I filmed a few remaining scenes, edited everything together, and color graded. With the film now being complete, this is my reflection on the post production process. A Change To Dialogue The biggest thing that happened during the final bits of post production has to do with dialogue. Prior to the filming of the remaining scenes, I took a look at the script for those scenes. After reading through the dialogue, I noticed that even after trying to make it seem more natural, it sounded like a script. Then, I re-watched scenes that were shot during production and their dialogue also sounded awful. At this point I wasn't sure how I could re-write dialogue and have it sound good especially with very limited time. Then, I thought about just removing the dialogue, leaving the film as a "silent film". I went back and re-edited what I had already done,