Interview: John Hitchcock. Comic book store owner, and Eisner nominated artist.

Tone: Nostalgic
Setting: House or store

Questions for Interview: What has the comic book industry done for you for nostalgia?
What has drew you to comics?
What inspired you to develop it into a career rather than a hobby?
In your words, how has the industry developed?
How do you feel that the comic book movies have influenced comics?
Where do you see comics in the next ten years?
Which comic book would you recommend to a beginner?
Which comic book inspired you the most? Why?
Has your passion ever wavered?
In your opinion, what has been the golden age of comics?
How do you feel you have contributed to the comic book industry?

Vox Pop: Do you read comics?
If yes...What do you you like about them?
How did you get introduced to comics?
If no..Do you watch any movies or t.v. shows that are influenced by comics?
What has lead you to view these but not read the source material?

Light Observation

For our Documentary Portrait, our group went to Fort Fisher, a place right on the coast. The light we were provided during the shoot was mostly natural lighting. The sun shone brightest during the early afternoon when we started. We started around 3 o'clock. The sun was so close because it was getting close to setting that Friday afternoon. The lighting was hard on the light meter. The good thing about the lighting was that we never had to create light fo the object we were photographing to be developed in the picture. The lighting also gave a very good light on some of our last photographs.


We had to make sure that we finished the pictures in time before the sun set and it was too dark to get the full scope of the picture. Natural lighting gave more realistic pictures conveying truth. With natural light we didn't have to shadows that is common with artificial lighting in photographs. The lighting from the sun was very strong and helped with the hills and putting light on the monument. We could also use the bright natural lighting for our close up and not have to deal with shadows in the photo. The lighting started to become darker when the sun sett behind the trees.

Storyboards for medium shot and a close up shot for Documentary Portrait

Filmaker's Statement Molly Rasberry

My filmmaking experiences for the most part are limited. I was a part of a film club at my high school and we mostly did contest entries for awareness shorts. I came up with an idea for a don't text and drive short with don't text and bike. There had been a rise of irresponsible people texting while riding a bike on campus and on college campuses. We shot the short and I helped with being the assistant director and creative consultant. Another thing we did was a parody short for Star Wars. I was a creative consultant for the most part. The club only had about 10 people and only 5 people really participated. When I came to UNCW after transferring I joined Flicker Film society and have helped a bit on the Reel Teal film festival with coordinating and ideas. I hope to learn how to set up the film and create a cohesive narrative. Critics have said that editors are greater storytellers than cinematographers as they are the one's main goal is to show how the story is told and not how it looks. I would also love to work with different people and learn how to control my anxieties about working with so many people. I would also love to utilize my imagination and creative and help create shorts with different genres and different minds working on one project. In ten years, I hope to be interning with a production company or even working on indie projects that many struggling filmmakers are trying to make. On the side I would love to write about film and review films for a journalistic perspective. For something interesting, I have read Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and loved it. I have also read both Anna Karenina and War and Peace all the way through.