SMIC Movie Industry Club » Vidoes Progress http://mvcstudios.com Everything about the Movie Club Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 The SMIC Promo has been released! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/08/the-smic-promo-has-been-released/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/08/the-smic-promo-has-been-released/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:52:58 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=393 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)

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/08/the-smic-promo-has-been-released/feed/ 61 Day 1 of filming the Promo… Wow! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/05/day-1-of-filming-the-promo-wow/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/05/day-1-of-filming-the-promo-wow/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 16:48:02 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=386 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!

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/05/day-1-of-filming-the-promo-wow/feed/ 2 [RELEASE] Justine’s Runner for S2F2! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/release-justines-runner-for-s2f2-sneak-peak/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/release-justines-runner-for-s2f2-sneak-peak/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:37:54 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=356 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)

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  • 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.)
    • ]]>     http://mvcstudios.com/2009/02/school-promotional-idea-draft-1/feed/ 32     Various Short Film Projects http://mvcstudios.com/2008/10/various-short-film-projects/ http://mvcstudios.com/2008/10/various-short-film-projects/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:34:30 +0000 Peter Zhang http://peter.novahost.org/?p=293 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 =( )

    Film 1: Music in your way (temporary title)

    • Directed by Peter Zhang [full]
    • Screenplay by: Peter Zhang [done]
    • Actor[s]: Thanakrit Gu [full]
    • AD crew: Ethan Yang, Christie Chang [hiring]
    • Editor: Peter Zhang [full]
    • Cameraman: Peter Zhang
    • To be filmed in less than one week
    • Meeting time: Undecided. Sometime this week.

    Film 2: Justine’s video (temporary title)

    • Directed by: Justine Hsu [full]
    • Screenplay by: Justine Hsu [doing]
    • Actor[s]: [hiring]
    • AD crew: [hiring]
    • Editor: [hiring]
    • Cameraman: [hiring]
    • Film date: Undecided
    • Meeting at Friday lunchtime

    Film 3: Cancer (temporary title)

    • Directed by: Yvette Chou [full]
    • Screenplay by: [hiring]
    • Actor[s]: Jonathan Tsou
    • AD crew: [hiring]
    • Editor: [hiring]
    • Cameraman: [hiring]
    • Film date: Undecided
    • Meeting: Undecided

    If you have any questions, suggestions or anything at all, feel free to reply!

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    Basically Filmmaking has 5 stages:

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

    Development

    Mainly writing the screenplay. Usually done by the scriptwriter, and the time it takes varies from hours to months. When a screenplay is done, the director will check and make neccessary arrangements. After this is done, we move onto Pre-Production.

    Pre-Production

    Find a crew (usually by the director) that includes: Editor, Cameramen, Actors, AD (or assistant directors) to handle props, filming time, etc. When done, move to Production. Of course, changes can be make to the crew (hire one more actor, etc.) any time during the production and post-production.

    Production

    AD will prepare the neccesary props before the day of filming, and gather everyone, including directors, cameramen, actors, etc. that are involve in the filming on the next day. This happens to every single scenes that are to be filmed. Post-production will then happen either during production (with finished scenes) or after.

    Post-Production

    The editor then take what is already done in to the computer and edits, or, put the clips into a correct order and cut out the unneccessary parts. After that, they will apply special effects on the edited film, such as blur, speed up, etc. At last, they will put background musics into the video (if neccessary) and make sure that the musics fits the video.

    The director will then check on the finished work from the editor and make neccessary changes. If this is all done, it is time to release the film!

    Release

    Show the finished film on YouTube, School Assembly, etc. This will be the end of the project.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking

    I hope everyone can have better understanding toward filmmaking. Happy filming =)

    Peter

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    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…”!

    The filming took two days in total, actors include: Jason Jung, Jonathan Tsou, Paul Choi, Yin Tan, Peter Zhang, Kelvin Hsu, Teddy Jung, Vera Chou and Ethan Yang. Yvette Chou was in charged of directing, and Peter Zhang (also cameraman) and Thanakrit Gu takes care about editing and special effects. And of course, it couldn’t be done without help from Christie Chang, the GA staff.

    The whole video is estimated at about 2 minutes 30 seconds. After the first release date, it will be put on Youtube, and the Videos Page of MVC Website.

    Thanks to all of you who contributed to this project!

    Peter

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