Blog #8

The clock is rolling and time is flying. My trailer is now posted online, my script and log sheet is done, I've gotten a great response from online viewers and I'm ready to produce a phenomenal finished product. Hearing people's responses has been energizing. It confirms that this project will serve a greater purpose.

I got my favorite writing professor, Prof. Yanela Gordon, to go over my script with me. At first I was going to tell the story from first person. I thought it would make a more persona/conversational documentary, but after talking with Prof. Gordon, I am going to take the good old journalistic approach and be objective. I am going to let strong writing and strong characters sell the story.

Prof. Jones has been telling us all year about self distribution and how it is becoming a necessity for documentary film making. I decided to put my graphic and visual skills to use by creating a movie cover for Quicksand. (See below.) I started with the name quicksand at the top. A consistent theme I use in the doc is the quick montage of NY/LA city life, so I used the title font and a snapshot from the montage behind it. Then I put the tag line, "The Pursuit of Stardom," beneath it just like the title page in the actual doc. I used a gradient fading into a night time photo of a large city with night lights illuminated. I wanted to do this because I thought it represented looking at city life from the surface with no idea what is going on in the actual buildings. It's a mystery effect just like the name Quicksand. Below the city are thumbnails of all the main characters, as if they are layered grains of sand below the city.

Everything is looking good for Quicksand. I'm excited, until next time.

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QUICKSAND DOC TRAILER 2010 from Brandon McCaskill on Vimeo.