Moving Right Along

I took today to finish off my some part of my webliography and any other work I felt didn't have enough to it. After today we will be moving on to the research phase of the project in which we go through all the resources we found earlier and start to take notes that pertain to our projects. I have a feeling I'll find some good stuff that's going to spark ideas. I'm looking forward to taking this next step and getting the wheels on this movie making machine turning!!

Stay tuned

Webliography

I spent the greater part of today putting together my webliography for my sources. Other than that not to much to report but I'll keep you posted.

Did You Know?

I spent the day doing research on some interesting movie facts that prior to today i was unaware of. I found them to be pretty interesting hopefully you do too. Enjoy!!

-In 2008, the average movie ticket price in the U.S. rose to $7.18, a 4.4% increase over 2007

-The number of screens in the U.S. remain constant at just over 40,000 in 2008

-The film “Titanic” is the highest grossing film of all time collecting $600,788,188

-Pirates of the Carribean : At World's End (2007) is the current highest budget film at $300,000,000

-"Cure for Insomnia" is the longest film ever. It runs about 87 hours

-Will Smith was the highest grossin actor of 2008

-“Manos: The Hands of Fate” is by many lists considered the worst movie ever made

-The longest running series of movies would be the "Carry On" series with 31 movies

-The first short was "Strongman Sandow" in 1890

I will also post these as a gadget for any futher use.

Going to New York!

Hey everyone who reads I just wanted to give you a heads up the I am going to New York so there won't be any posts all the rest of this week. I'm hoping while I'm there I'll get struck with some inspiration and maybe gather some ideas about my film and who knows maybe even start writing it. If anything big comes up I'll be sure to keep to up to date as soon as I can and I'll see you when I get back!!!

Collage

I spent today creating a collage to represent my topic. I hope it helps give an idea of the concept of my project. If I added it correctly it should be on the right side of my page as a gadget so definatly be sure to check it out and give me some feedback.

Webliography Introduction

As the title says today we were introducted with how to create a webliography for research sources used in our projects. We will be using Easybib.com which from what I can gather seems to be pretty simple to use. So over the course of the next few days Im going to start putting that together and get all my information in order. Stay tuned!

Questions Anyone?

Today I've been just trying to create some foundation questions to build off of my topic. If you have any that you would think help please let me hear them

Key Terms Added

As you'll notice to your right I have added some key terms that apply to my topic. Hopefully they'll help to give good references points on how to do my project as "professionally" as possible and give me a sense of the filmmaking experience. Bare in mind that throughout this project I may add more key terms but for the time being these are ones that I will frequently use in my posts and the project itself.

Esstional Question?

Today I've just been trying to draft an essential question that could apply to my topic of filmmaking. I have a few different ones but hopefully I'll get some feedback on which one is the best! Still looking at different resources and brainstorming ideas. The journey continues.

Still Site Searching

Still doing some site browsing trying to find good sources. Pretty much the same as yesterday. But all of this site searching is getting me excited about my topic. I'm really looking forward to getting this thing off the ground. I'll keep you posted!!!

Today I as able to look at some more sites that could be possible resources for my project. They seem to provide some of the good general knowledge information that I need. I have several links but a good portion of them are blocked so I'll work on opening those up. Overall a fairly productive day.

Though I have a lot of things I'd like to do I believe I have a topic in mind that I have been thinking about for month and really wish to do. I would like to develop my own short comedic film from start to finish employing all the aspects of the movie making process myself undertaking all the major roles such as writng, directing, filming and editing. This is something that I have always wanted to do regardless and now feel I can use this opportunity to explore my interest in film and develop some necessary skills to hopefully enter the field of film making.

I have been exploring multiple website to begin some of my research for the project. Here are some of the sites I think will be the most hopeful:


Writing a Film
http://www.online-communicator.com/writfilm.html

The Filmmaking Process
http://coffeeandcelluloid.com/the-filmmaking-process/ (this one is pretty cool)

Making The Movie
http://www.makingthemovie.info/2006/05/moviemaking-tips-archive.html (a blog that provides tips and tricks on making a film)


These are just a few of the sites I found but until I get the others unblocked these are the ones that are working. I think they can help me a lot in getting an idea of how to approach my topic.