Lit Littman Posts

 As you may be aware from my other posts, I have a film in progress. I wanted to share my “ CCR plan” with you all!  The title sequence uses some genre conventions because of how the words fade in, but mystery genre title sequences often have different shots shown for each credit or title, which mine does not. Some credits share the same shot. For this sequence, I decided to use cuts that would transition well: cutting from the character Grey’s eyes in one shot to her eyes in the next and using the sound of sizzling bacon as a transition to cut to the next shot.  These decisions were to help the transition or cut be smoother and have  more meaning.  This clip here shows what I mean by this:  The lack of dialogue was also a decision I made because I wanted to display meaning visually and through the movements and actions of my characters. This is primarily why the man proposing says nothing but Grey says yes, this is to separate them and add to the mystery o...

“The Man of Her Dreams” is a movie I have been working on for quite some time. The film’s opening will be available to view by April 9th. Until then, I’m going to share with you all the process and how it all went down.       It started with the idea, which at first was of a school girl being the main character, but I decided to change this to a young adult because of how it would conflict with ideas for the film, such as how she dreams of getting married and the choice of limited dialogue.       Putting this idea into action this past week, I learned how difficult film making could be, especially since I was the director, editor, cinematographer, and writer all in one. I was responsible for executing all parts of the plan, which meant I had to be specific when telling the actors what to do while filming them, hoping they understand what I mean.       This led to doing many takes before I was satisfied with the clip. I shot the...

Recently, I've decided to spend some time sweding a clip from Parks and Recreation. What is Sweding you may ask... Sweding is a verb that means to imitate a film you admire by attempting to re-create all or part of it. This originates from the 2008 film: Be Kind, Rewind. Three boys (Dylan, Michael, Ryan) and I have decided to swede the scene from Parks and Recreation of the two minutes leading up to when Ron says "give me all the bacon and eggs you have."  We chose this scene because of how it resembled the characters, with Dylan being a humorous person and the rest of us having to experience it. Comedy was also chosen because Dylan and Michael are working together on a comedy film, allowing them to practice more with this genre.  We used elements of cinematography and editing to recreate, or swede, the scene shown below.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSMJOL0-dCQ This was a comedic choice that allowed us to recreate this in a way that would be similar due to the style ...