tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77012437767871585232024-02-20T19:28:24.899-06:00Breathing Film - A Blog by Filmmaker Wesley CaldwellA blog about my life, filmmaking ventures and other things that I find interesting enough to put into a post for you to read.Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-26970740143488460052012-07-09T01:24:00.001-05:002012-07-09T12:30:04.600-05:00Why We Don't Deserve The Dark Knight Rises
It’s almost been a year since I blogged last. And, while I
have a lot of stories to tell (production and release of my thesis film Rearview, the production and horrible
deletion of my film Special, my
various life changes over the past year, etc.), I wanted to start off my
blogging again with something that I am very passionate about that doesn’t
completely relate to my life story.
Well,Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-21836079264542568632011-08-11T12:00:00.004-05:002011-08-12T12:17:05.101-05:00Harry Potter Birthday BashAbout a month ago, I turned 24 on the day that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was released in theaters. Because of this, I felt it was only natural that I have a birthday party that led into the midnight show. Below, you can see pictures from the whole event.
This is Heather, my new girlfriend. She is pretty awesome and a big Harry Potter fan.
Blossom in his pretty terrible DementorWesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-38387853384132566412011-06-24T01:00:00.000-05:002011-06-24T02:30:06.351-05:00Oh Yeah, I Have a BlogSo this past semester got pretty rough and, in the process, I stopped updating this blog and lost touch with a lot of great things in my life. Now I'm on a much needed break and I'm feeling much, much better about things. For one, I can say that I'm actually excited about making movies again and that's a really great thing. So what did I do while I was gone? Well, a lot. I just realized that I Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-67034038680771053102011-03-29T01:10:00.019-05:002012-02-29T16:36:12.838-06:00Coming Soon: Self PortraitIf you ran into me over the break, you probably know that I am working on my Self Portrait for Professor Lubomir Kocka's Directing for Film Television class right now. You know this because I probably harassed you into being in it. I got the assignment before the break started and, for some reason or another, I began to instantly obsess over it. Basically the assignment is that I have to create aWesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-13131083122567101262011-03-01T23:29:00.059-06:002011-03-02T01:21:37.391-06:00Late Nights, Early MorningsMy friends Kristen and Christoph have started a producing team. Right now, their production team label is "Late Nights, Early Mornings." This is because that phrase pretty much describes life as a film graduate student at SCAD. It's fun if you really love film but it's also pretty pressing. Lately, I've been losing track of what day it is and, sometimes, where I'm supposed to be or what I'm Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-10690167460243472962011-02-04T23:16:00.024-06:002011-02-05T00:35:06.763-06:00School LatelyIt's been a long time since I blogged last. School has been very, very busy. I've been pretty exhausted and my free time has been pretty limited. Anyways, I'm about to go to bed (so I can wake up at 5:45 am and get ready to get on set for the weekend) but, before I do, I've decided to prologue my vital sleep and do a quick update on what we have been doing here.I'm in three classes right now: Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-45697895237304259252011-01-09T20:07:00.007-06:002011-01-09T20:39:37.540-06:00See You Later, LongLong left Savannah today.It's hard to explain why. He went into his building on Wednesday morning (after not signing up for classes) and said that it made him feel terrible. He didn't want the same teacher again. He wanted to see America. He needed a change. He wanted a bigger city.Regardless of what it was, Long got on a bus to Atlanta at 5 pm today where he will be going to SCAD Atlanta (at Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-32989838126025498032010-12-29T17:33:00.001-06:002010-12-30T01:09:26.828-06:00My Top Ten Movies of 2010For a few years, I co-ran a movie blog called YDKS Movies. During my time there, I did quite a few Best Of lists. I love making lists. I think it taps into my OCD tendencies. So, while this isn't a movie blog in the sense that YDKS was, I still view it as a forum for me to express my film opinions. After all, it's a blog all about me. And, if you've ever met me, you'd know that movies are pretty Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-74356834602363025312010-12-21T15:39:00.038-06:002010-12-21T16:49:03.888-06:00Behind the Scenes on Crowning Achievements Episode 001Last week I traveled back to Savannah with my friend Zach to help out a few of my SCAD friends on a film project. The project was called Crowning Achievements with H.J. Wellington Astor. It was a short film that would parody literary classic readings with an eccentric, sheltered billionaire reading from bizarre, poorly written novels. It is structured to act as the first in a series of videos. Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-87496802062456128412010-12-11T01:03:00.020-06:002010-12-18T21:57:04.823-06:00Behind the Scenes on the Macbeth ShootI got to help my sister Avery out on her first movie two weeks ago.When I was in high school, I didn't really start making movies until Mrs. Downey's AP English class in the 11th grade. Mrs. Downey would assign a project where we had to adapt a scene from the Shakespeare play we were reading at the time (either Macbeth, A Midnight Summer's Dream, Hamlet, or Henry IV) into a short film.Up until Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-19826675076677319252010-12-11T00:17:00.072-06:002010-12-14T17:46:50.494-06:00Tom, Long and Sue Come to Mississippi for ThanksgivingThis past Thanksgiving, my roommates Tom and Long and our mutual friend Sue came home with me to Mississippi for their first ever Thanksgiving. It was a bizarre, wild and fun week for us all. Sue, my dad and I took a lot of pictures over the week and you can see them all, with a little bit of commentary, below.Sue on the ten hour drive to Jackson, MS with her house warming gift in hand.We went toWesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-35357239915858575812010-12-10T19:45:00.001-06:002010-12-10T20:50:32.357-06:00A Detailed and Personal Wrap Up of the 2010 Savannah Film Festival (Part 2)Be sure to read Part 1 of my film festival wrap up before reading this. Otherwise, this post won't make much sense in the grand scheme of things. Of course, one of the most important parts of the Savannah Film Festival was the movies. During that week, I saw a crap ton of film. So much, in fact, that I'm still processing a lot of the things that I saw. There were a lot of really great things I Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-77532886445870835872010-11-27T18:42:00.001-06:002010-12-18T17:36:56.185-06:00A Detailed and Personal Wrap Up of the 2010 Savannah Film Festival (Part 1)There's a reason why it has taken me so long to write a wrap up post for the Savannah Film Festival. The fact is I'm not sure I can describe the experience in words and do it justice. It was one of the most surreal, other-worldy things I've ever been through. It was one of the best weeks of my life and, at the same time, one of the most stressful and exhausting ones. It was a time where I Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-28436578072606621432010-11-14T20:27:00.027-06:002010-11-14T22:33:42.354-06:00A Visit to the Old School DinerA lot of people have been asking me where my new blog posts are. Where's all my coverage of the Savannah Film Festival? Well, unfortunately, I've been a little on the busy / sick side lately. Our final projects are due Wednesday and I've been working towards that. Also, I got pretty sick a few days ago and it's really made me not want to move much.Anyways, in regards to the film festival, there Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-22838743663224486582010-11-07T16:34:00.030-06:002010-11-07T16:52:47.294-06:00Halloween Grad Wrap PartyBefore I cover the rest of the 2010 Savannah Film Festival, I want to back track a day and cover the Halloween Grad Wrap Party that took place on October 29th. We had just wrapped production on The Sandwich, Young, Awkward and Stupid, and Why I'm Afraid of the Dark and wanted to celebrate. To do so, we threw a section-wide Halloween grad wrap party in Katy Lowe's backyard / apartment.I came as Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-80619378030439838122010-11-06T14:42:00.001-05:002010-11-06T14:43:29.112-05:00Opening Night of the Savannah Film FestivalSo the Savannah Film Festival has been going on since October 30th. I've been pretty much living (and sleeping) at the Trustees Theater so this is the first chance I've had to blog on the festival.October 3oth was the kick off day for the festival. There was a red carpet event and I took a lot of pictures that you can see below. Tom was working the event. He set up this back drop.Sue and Xiping Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-50601425729151843262010-10-30T13:33:00.028-05:002010-10-30T15:14:09.533-05:00Day One and Two of Why I'm Afraid of the DarkThe last movie my class filmed was entitled Why I'm Afraid of the Dark. It was written by Christoph Tallerico and was directed by Jamey Smith. It's a nice little horror / psychological thriller. The crew for Why I'm Afraid of the Dark was the following:Director- Jamey SmithProducer / 1st AD- Christoph TallericoDirector of Photography- Katy LoweCamera Operator- Gerald TurnerArt Director- Rachael Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-76780901092269290972010-10-25T20:59:00.025-05:002010-10-25T23:01:39.414-05:00Nights Two, Three and the Wrapping of Young, Awkward and StupidWe finished up filming on Young, Awkward and Stupid Thursday and Friday night. The film is currently wrapped and is in post production.Thursday night was really rough. We started at 7:30 pm and went until midnight. The set ups for shots were really difficult and took a lot of time. Things just weren't moving as rapidly as they were on Wednesday night. There was a lot of frustration and tension Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-47112466703020791012010-10-21T14:03:00.055-05:002010-10-30T15:17:28.419-05:00Night One of Young, Awkward and StupidWednesday night marked the first night of shooting for a film based on my script Young, Awkward and Stupid. Young, Awkward and Stupid started off as an autiobiographical feature film screenplay that I wrote earlier this year about the awkwardness of dating, my insecurities with women and many other fun subjects. I tried to get it into production last year (and even cast it) but a lot of factors Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-30598313686365844542010-10-21T13:18:00.029-05:002010-10-21T13:39:44.999-05:00Day Two and Wrap of The SandwichYesterday we wrapped production on The Sandwich. We had a crew call at 7:30 am and shot until about 1:30 pm. We then had a two hour break and then started back up on Young, Awkward and Stupid (see the next blog post for this).Day two went pretty smoothly. We definitely didn't go as fast as the first day but we got all the footage we needed and pulled off some pretty complicated lighting set-ups. Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-52793026534198080582010-10-18T22:29:00.030-05:002010-10-21T01:22:14.603-05:00Rehearsal / Day One of Filming the SandwichToday marked the first day of shooting for my class for our three film productions that we will be making in the next two weeks. Today's shoot was for a script called The Sandwich, written by classmate Kristen Hall. We had a crew call at 7:30 am, began filming at 10:30 am and wrapped at 3:30 pm. We will finish up The Sandwich on Wednesday, setting up again at 7:30 am and wrapping up at 2 pm for aWesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-54970870582199847642010-10-16T23:45:00.027-05:002010-10-21T01:23:49.785-05:00Life LatelyI've been pretty busy lately so unfortunately I haven't been able to update as much. However, I've been storing up some fun pictures for you guys so I figured what better time to put them up than now (i.e. one of the few moments of free time I've had during the evening lately where I haven't been exhausted).Two weeks ago, I spent a solid week gaffing. The gaffer is the production crew member thatWesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-56585277343780067812010-10-01T22:07:00.010-05:002010-10-01T22:30:55.485-05:00Waiting for Savannah Film Festival TicketsThis morning my classmates and I got up early to wait in line for tickets for the Savannah Film Festival, which starts October 30th. Tickets went on sale at 10 am but we were advised to get there no later than 8 am.When I found out that two of my most anticipated movies of the year (Black Swan and 127 Hours) were starting and finishing out the festival, I decided to get there pretty early to Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-82511574643695245852010-09-26T18:12:00.062-05:002010-09-26T20:13:53.793-05:00Sheng Ri Kuai Le, TomLast night, we had a big birthday bash for Tom at my apartment. A lot of Chinese people came over and we all ate a lot of food. The food display was pretty interesting- it was a giant combination of American and Chinese food. It was all presented buffet style and it seemed to go over well.We all spent a few hours eating, socializing and getting to know each other better. Then we brought out the Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701243776787158523.post-57738162791773669302010-09-22T20:00:00.018-05:002010-09-22T20:31:02.654-05:00Acting for the CameraToday in my Technical Elements of Film Production class we got to do a shoot in which we basically recreated the short The Lunch Date. We split into two groups of six, assigned production jobs, scouted for a location and got to work. My team ended up using my Canon T2i for our shooting camera so, as we were setting up, my classmate Justin Andrews and I snapped a few behind the scenes pictures. Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958677014173132993noreply@blogger.com1