DRAWN HOME

Over the past five weekends, I’ve been helping crew on a USC thesis film project.
Most of the production majors in my year are actually crewing (for credit, as a specific position) on one of these four, competitive projects this semester. But most film majors don’t have a minor or another major. Since I’m a Fine Arts minor also, I decided this would be a good semester to take a break of sorts from film classes and just concentrate on my fine arts classes. I usually put my major first, and since film is so demanding, my paintings and photographs get put far on the backburner, further than I’d like to put them.

I do plan on crewing on one of these thesis projects (aka a “480” (named after the course number, CTPR 480)) in the fall, so I wanted to get some experience helping out on a crew this spring. As it turns out, a bunch of my friends are working on the same crew, on a short film called Drawn Home. I lucked out because this was the project that had the most production design work needed, and I wanted to help out with the art department. Here are some production stills and photographs from the sets and locations we’ve set up over the past few weeks.

Two of the main characters in the film, posing in front of the set up for the finale scene, a fantastical re-creation of a childhood drawing on a suburban lawn.


Drawings that the young version of the main character, Hanna, "did" for the film. I made a bunch of them. It was fun getting to draw like a kid again. :)


The carriage and some flowers from the finale night scene. (The first photograph in this blog is also from this finale scene.)


Another really cool thing about being so qualified (compared to the other PAs on these projects who are usually freshman, etc), is that they let me have a lot more control on the set. For many of the smaller scenes in the film I was actually given the role of production designer, while the actually production designers worked on setting up the bigger scenes.
This is a still from the studio that I designed for the main character, Hanna.

I've had a really great experience working with this crew. Now I can't wait to crew on my own 480 next semester!