SMIC Movie Industry Club

I don’t need to say much. Watch the video and enjoy =)

Thanks to EVERYONE who supported us, including the cast, the crew, Dr. Han, and of course, the evil genius. ( He’ll know who I am talking about)

I just can’t tell you how pleased I am with the filming today in school. It took us only 1:30 hours to finish the 5 scenes that we planned that we would shoot for 2:30 hours.

The combination of Mr. Shall and Ms. Hsu is simply great. It is always fun to hear them go insulting each other. Mr. Hsu would always say about “You[Mr. Johnson, Mr. Shall] promised to love Andrew [his son, Michael Tao] when you married me[Mrs. Johnson, Ms. Hsu]!”. In addition, Mr. Canfield loved introducing the “Wonderful exit signs that lined up across the hallways”. Hilarious!

I am really looking forward to film with you guys again sometime next week. Good job!

Thanks to all the people who showed up today, especially Yvette, Thanakrit and Jason. You guys helped me so much!

It’s out it’s out! Yes, I am just probably as excited as you are, but IT IS OUT! Justine’s Running film, after 3 weeks of production is finally out to public.

This film is going to be submitted to the Shanghai Student Film Festival on April 17th. For more information of this video, visit this post.

Film updated on 18 March. Enjoy the vid! (Youtube seems to darkened the film by a bit)

Download it now: iPod (22M), Medium Quality (30M), or Loseless Quality (866M, through torrent)

• Story from 4 different perspectives:
  • Kindergarten Family
  • Graduated Student
  • High School Family
  • New Teacher
• Four families arrive at school at the same day to explore the school with a guide.
• Through them, we will show the information such as College Acceptance, Facilities, etc.
• There will be a “story-within-a-story” in each families/individual, such as:
  • Kindergarten: Sees the Kindergarten facilities, while the student accidentally falls in the corridor, and the nurse takes care of him very nicely
  • Graduated Student: Sees Facilities improve, involves in a fundraising event he used to be a part in, dinner with the friends
  • High School Family: Sees curriculums and college acceptance information while being touched by the details and care of the counselor.
  • Teacher: Sees hardworking faculty and be motivated.
• Four stories is going to happen at the same time with cuts to each other almost randomly. Time is what linking them together.
• At last, they will all be witnessing the RFC – our school’s special and unique event
• No narrator is needed
• Interview will be done in conversations between the perspectives and the respective teachers (such as counselor, etc.)

We will launch a series of short film projects from now on. We currently have 3 ideas so far, but if you have an idea that is film-able, feel free to tell us!

Below is a list of films we will start working on in the next few weeks. If you see a row that says [hiring] at the back, feel free to reply to this thread and tell us you want to do it. If not, chances are you won’t get to participate in the project! (that’s really sad =( )

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I was bored the other day so i just Google’d for filmmaking to learn the process of it. I found this article on Wikipedia that is pretty interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_production

Basically Filmmaking has 5 stages:

• Development – Screenwritor, Director
• Pre-Production – Director
• Production – AD, Actor, Cameraman, Director
• Post-Production – Editor, Director
• Release – EVERYONE!

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Hi guys,

Recently, some of the members in the club has been filming the Recruitment Film, which is going to be shown at tomorrow’s HighSchool Assembly, and then Middle School Assembly after the holidays.

- Project finished on 23 September
- Release: 24 September 8:00 – 8:15 High School Assembly, and 7 October 8:00 – 8:15 Middle School Assembly

Watch it by clicking “Read it all…”!

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