Producer for the Master Shot

For the Master Shot I plan to be organized and make sure that we have all the equipment we need for shooting. I will have make sure to get permission papers for actors we use in the master shot. I also plan to make calls and have the papers ready for certain areas that we shoot the film. I will pay for gas for the master shot. I will help the sound editor for editing the sound during the edits we make towards the film. I will also help with any other things that the film crew may need help with during the shoot. I will also may also get some food for the crew during the shoot. I will also help the director in organizing each shot and location for the shoot.

Vox Pops and Expert interview

The vox pops were at first very daunting at first but getting all the necessary paperwork and everything was not bad. Most people in downtown Wilmington were very amenable to us for the most part and were supportive of the Documentary.

The expert interview took about two hours to finish and was very insightful. The filming took about 30 minutes. It was awesome to have a person who was very knowledgeable about the subject to talk to us.  It was more difficult for us to film though because of lighting and having to cut out many parts to have it fit into the allotted time space of two minutes. 

Peer Review

Peer Review

Audra: Audra made her directions very clear for us to comprehend. She would help with group suggestions and allowing for her ideas and the groups ideas to come out during the production. Even though she had the final say in what she wanted the documentary to look like, she allowed us to give our own ideas of how it would look into the final project. She also helped with editing and did the interviews. 

Kateland: Kateland helped with ideas for the final documentary and even came up with the idea to have the documentary be about sandwiches based on her own employment at Subway. She helped with the questions and in editing with charting the markers for the video. She also helped in how the video would be structured.

Jonathan: Jonathan had done very well with sound and holding equipment during shooting such as the mike and the umbrella during a sunny day of shooting. Jonathan helped with editing the final cut by giving his opinions of what he felt made the film better. I feel that Jonathan wasn’t given enough to do but he made up for it by doing extra stuff.

Ryne: Ryne did a very good job in a position that he wasn’t particularly comfortable in. He got all paperwork made up for us to have the people we were interviewing sign. He also helped a lot in how he felt the film should look like during the editing process. He also found the expert interviewer and was able to call him on short notice.

Molly: I felt that I did a fairly good job with being Director of Photography. I was comfortable with the film process, since I had done it before but I wasn’t fully comfortable with the editing process. The rest of the group was able to help me and to make sure I was editing it the way Audra wanted it. I still spent the longest time editing, but at least I had the group to help me with the editing of the final film. 

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.