T-206 Final Project Post-Mortem

Dale Harper April 24, 2011

And now, the end is near. And so I face, the final curtain. Here it is, my last post-

mortem, wrapping up one hell of a semester. This particular project was my second

favorite of all we’ve done for T-206, my favorite being the scriptwriting portion. There

was a lot of work that I put into this bad boy. I luckily had the help of my loving family

to do so. While three pictures for each story seemed like a lot when I first heard about the

project, once I started taking the pictures I realized that I wanted to have more than three

for each. I wanted more room to tell the story that I had envisioned instead of having to

take parts of the story to make it fit. But it was really fun to play around with different

angles and trying to direct my family, none of whom have experience in acting. It was

tough telling my fifteen-year-old sister to act like a relapsing drug addict; it took a little

experimenting with different emotions to get it to work. Also, after I took the shot of the

box full of paraphernalia, she asked me if that’s all we were going to use those for. After

we painstakingly added eye shadow to the bottom of the spoon to add a burned look,

stuck a pin through the end of a dropper to make it look like a hypodermic needle, and

used beef bouillon to look like heroin. All that creative work for one small shot. So it

made me realize how much goes into designing everything that goes into films, even if

it’s only seen for a second, it can still be a huge part of the movie. So after all was said

and done, I’m glad I was able to do this project. And I’m also glad I was able to be a part

of this class. Even if the drawing portions started to frustrate me in the end, and damn it

they did.