past two weeks.

Have been meaning to make a new blog for the past two weeks, but haven't had internet at home to achieve this.
First I will recap what happened most recently. The casting call went great and I managed to learn a lot about directing people and making them feel comfortable in awkward situations, more specifically how to get the best out of 6-12 year old children because we had quite a few come through and they had a lack of reading ability so i had to be quite creative. Things like being really specific about the context and keeping it simple in a way that sort of manipulates them into doing what you want them to do. For instance getting them to read a script without them having to worry about actually having to "act" and giving them situations they may have faced in real life and get them to go "crazy" to get overemphasis and get them out of their shell. The others were great fun and I got to put them through some what of torture by giving them an abstract topic and if they can sing make them make a song out of it or just plain convince me of things.
What I learned that was quite valuable and usable in on set directing is putting yourself in their shoes and act with them to make the actor feel like their not alone, which alloys them to go out of their shell and really "act"

The week before in cinematography we were given a sheet that contained a criteria we needed to fill with a camera and had to keep the same frame and increase the lens and change the aperture, nd filters, and gain to get specific affects. I really found that the longest lens with half decent light and a half open aperture and no gain looks fantastic. The exercise refreshed my memory of what you can do with cannon cameras and Corey learnt how to use a cannon for the first time and obviously picked it up very quickly.