A few months after the shoot is over, I get a surprise from Eric, our Behind-the-Scenes-Videographer of “All I Want Is Silence”… this: Enjoy the 10-minute show! Behind the Scenes Video of Day 1 The Story of Day 1 This day has a good start. Actually, it would be Day…
This class is a “senior seminar” – it is only meant for people who have completed their undergraduate studies in Berkeley and are in their last year before graduation. I figured that I could smuggle myself into the class based on my prior experience in filmmaking. The first day of…
There is an inherent logic problem in making a short film when you are starting out – film is a collaborative medium, hence you need friends who come on board and help you with your film. If you haven’t done much film before or are new to Berkeley (or wherever…
In order to shoot “All I Want Is Silence”, I need a crew. There are only two problems: UC Berkeley’s film program is a film studies, not a film production program I am new here, so I have no idea who is good at filmmaking, or who would be interested…
Prologue & Getting the Idea In one of my classes, Film 105 (Early Cinema, 1895-ca.1920), one of my colleagues asked “Can we also do a short instead of a final research paper?”. That student, Nathan, also has experience in filmmaking, hence the idea of shooting something instead of brooding over…
