Filmic's First Narrative

The Filmic team’s semester includes a number of awesome opportunities, but one of the most exciting is – surprisingly – offered as a class. That’s right, we’re pumped up about school. But this isn’t your mundane, anonymous lecture with GSIs and math homework due every week… This is Filmmaking II, where the goal is to finish a 10-15 minute narrative film. Needless to say, we’re thinking big.

Most Importantly, this project has to be, fittingly, filmic. In the most literal sense, this course offers us an opportunity that is quickly dying off - the chance to shoot on super 16 color negative. We plan on taking full advantage of this rare opportunity and special aesthetic. So, yes, Filmic will temporarily put away the SLRs for something truly cinematic.

Our biggest focus as always, will be story. Not only do we want to tell a story appropriate to film, but also one we all are passionate about. If not everyone is on board, then we're not running at our full potential. Fortunately, our current treatment has captured everyone's attention: it allows for big production design, but more importantly, presents themes and characters with which we all can identify. The best hint that I can give everyone is that our big story idea involves buttons (a world full of buttons), and I'll just let your minds run with that for now. However, as we move more into the semester, we'll be blogging all about our first narrative experience as we move from pre-production to post. So... Be on the lookout for updates, photos, and maybe even some behind the scenes videos (honestly, we really will never put down our SLRs), because we want you all to be just as excited as we are as we continue to move forward on this project.

- CJED