Light Observation 2

EXT. PARKING LOT

It’s a snowy day and although the roads are covered in a sheet of ice, it isn’t noticeable, perhaps because there isn’t enough light to reflect off of its surface. I stare at my car and there is a slight fuzzy shadow underneath it. The snow covered floor appears dull and flat, but the snow accumulated on top of the hood of my car is chopped and mangled (perhaps from me scraping the ice off of my windshield and letting it fall on the hood). The short shadows from this “hood snow” are being cast forward, only to conclude that the light source is coming from behind the car. The gray horizon is probably diffusing the sunlight coming in creating this dreary, dull lighting.  

Light Observation 1

INT. BEDROOOM

The light in my bedroom is not that interesting, but the shadows that it creates are unique. Because everything is hard lit, this creates dark, sharp shadows. A turned off desk lamp cast a shadow on the wall that is both elongated and disproportioned. The light source from the ceiling causes the space heater to cast a shadow with its honeycomb grill, and because the space heater is some sort of metal or aluminum the light bounces off it and hits the bamboo floor underneath it. The heater is unique, perhaps because of its position being directly underneath the light source, there are light shadows on its face and under every knob and button there is a shadow cast while at the same time glares of light bounce off of the edges of handles and its curves.

First Post

Hello, my name is Anthony Guevara, I am a Film Studies Major at the University of North Carolina

Wilmington. I love movies and although I may not have a lot of film related experience, I do own a high definition camera which I have made a few short films with friends. It has been quite some time since I have shot something; which I imagine is something rarely said in the South, but I would like to start filming again. Some of the tasks I would be involved in, when creating films with friends, was usually cinematography, editing, and minor sound design.

What I hope to learn from this FST 201 course is not only the fundamentals of making a film, but exploring different techniques and seeing which rules can be broken for narrative purposes.Ten years from now I would like to have worked on some feature films, more specifically I would like to be working on a project of my own. If I did have something completed by then I would hope it is not the same mainstream stuff that is seen an accepted by the general audience, I want to challenge people’s perceptions and beliefs and provide a different norm and hopefully they can experience something else and leave the film with something on their mind.

Something unique about me that is not film related, is that I am a huge soccer fan, or what the rest of the world calls football. Not only that but that my favorite team is English, I think it’s funny that most people assume that I would like a Mexican team because I am Hispanic, even though there is a Mexican soccer player on my favorite team, and he happens to be my favorite player. It all sounds pretty complicated, but to make it simple my favorite team is Manchester United Football Club, they are one of the most successful and followed teams in the world. They are kind of like the Yankees of soccer. So far this season they have been doing pretty badly, but I like to think of this as a test that separates the real fans from the rest.