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Behind the Scenes of LB Films Production LBCC’s Film Club on November 13th began their brainstorming process for their next short film. There are no competitions for them to enter for the month of December, so they are using this film to better everyone's skills around filmmaking. There is going to be three directors for each of the three films. Each director will have their own genre assigned to their film to be inspired by. This will also allow them to put a spin on the fixed scenario that every director will work off of. The genres they decided on are drama, romance and comedy. Every director needs to include the same one line of dialogue, “I only did it one, I promise,” and they have to interact with a pen at least one time to give the scenes some similarities to each other. LBCC’s Film Club members (from right to left) Jakob Jones, Kaitlynn Hughes, Konoha Tomono-Duval, and Byron Drenning on November 20 performed their first table read of the comedy director...

Topic 1 This photo of The Macks is my favorite photo that I took this term. I really like how I framed the bass player in between the two singers up front. These photos weren't easy to get and my hearing was gone for a couple days after which really adds to the worth of this photo for me. I think this photo reflects what I’ve learned in this class well. It a nicely composed picture and I had to fiddle with the settings a lot on my camera to achieve it. Before photojournalism I would always use my camera in auto mode, so this is a big achievement for me. I also managed to talk to the band afterward for a short interview which I would have never done before. My photo skills have improved a decent amount compared to where I was when I started. I still have a lot to improve on, but slow progress is still progress. I never really cropped my photos that I would take with my camera before this term, but now I understand how much of a difference it can make. Now when I’m looking throu...