I Direct The Movie

Hello one and all,

I guess I should give some information about myself before I begin blogging away. No one wants to blog a stranger! ...Or something like that.

1. First of all, my name is Jon Moisan. I'm a senior Telecommunications major and because I enjoy traveling to exotic and faraway places, I'm from right here in Muncie, IN.

2. My role in the film, as you may have gathered from my ultra creative blog title, is to direct the movie. As director, it is my responsibility to guide and shape the movie as a whole. I come up with the look and style of the film and help to communicate it to the Director of Photography. I also help to edit the script and make sure we have a solid story providing the backbone for the film. In addition to this, I also help to direct the actors into giving the best performance they can for our film. Essentially, I am the boss for the film and help to oversee every decision that gets made.

3. Thus far has been an extremely busy period as we are currently in what's known as preproduction. The first thing I did was to help edit the script. This was a very strange process for me as I had to work very closely with the writer to produce a combined script. For me, this was probably the hardest process so far in that neither the writer nor I wanted to give up too much of our creative vision. It led to some minor disagreements to say the least. Thankfully we worked through our issues and came to a nice happy compromise for everyone involved. Another job I've been very happy to do is to work on coming up with a style and color palette for the film. When this whole thing began, I immediately went to my movie collection to find examples of what I would like our movie to look like. One thing I knew for certain was that I wanted this film to be something completely different from any other film Ball State has ever created. This means choosing dynamic colors, camera movements, and styles. I think I can safely say that "Free Wall" will have one of the widest aspect ratio of any Summer HD movie ever. With my choices of style, I must also make sure I work diligently to storyboard the film, by making sure that I take the vision I have in my head and relay it to everyone else involved as clearly as possible. Moving forward, I also had the pleasure of being able to oversee the casting of the movie. I've done something similar to this before, but never on such a professional level. I'm so glad I have such an amazing group of producers to help me through the process. I know I would never be able to keep myself organized enough to do everything. Right now, I'm going to cut myself short before I begin to ramble. I'll save that for another post.

-Jon