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Posted in Chris Reed on Apr 30th, 2009
On Tuesday, April 28, I presented the first cut of my new documentary film, which is about the Big Apple Circus Clown Care™ program at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Until the end of the day on Friday, May 1 (tomorrow), you can watch this 35-minute cut of the film by visiting my website [...]
Posted in Chris Reed on Apr 17th, 2009
Greg Almond, Class of 2009, Film Major, is about to finish his Senior Project, which consists of 3 rolls of 100′ of black & white negative film, exposed in a homemade pinhole camera, of his own design.
Here is a photo of Greg building the camera:
And here is photo of what the strip of 16mm black [...]
Posted in Chris Reed on Apr 7th, 2009
Now that the semester is 2/3 of the way done, our Juniors are busy shooting their second major video project of the course. This one is a narrative (fiction) film of up to 15-minutes length.
Here are two production stills from 2 different shoots:
From L to R: Michelle Rossignol (on camera), Stephanie Yee, Kit Reiner, and [...]
Posted in Chris Reed on Apr 1st, 2009
So – my FLM108 (Intro to Film) has been working hard this semester shooting, for the first, projects on 16mm Black & White film.
We have been using the marvelous ARRI-S MOS cameras, and using Kodak 16mm B&W Reversal Film.
Here are two examples. They’re simple, sure, but this is a beginning class.
The first film is [...]
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