LBCC's Film Club

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 directors script for their next short film. A table read is when the writing producer, or in this case the director, brings a draft of their script to be acted out with the other members of the club. This is their chance to get feedback on the script and to further develop it with other creative minds within this group.

On November 29th LBCC’s Film Club began shooting their short film at the Albany campus that they came up with a few weeks prior. Jakob Jones and his dad Jeff Jones provide the LBCC’s film club with most of the equipment used to produce the films this group creates. They use two cinematography cameras that captures 4k videos and then they use an Odyssey attached to the cameras to record the 4k footage.

LBCC’s film club spread out their shoot into three sections; drama, romance, and last but not least, comedy. At 9 am everyone arrived and began to set up the first scene, the cameras, and the lighting. Around 10:30am the shooting began. The first scene consisted of Megan Carroll as a nurse interrogating Kane Weekly who plays the patient being accused of murder. Nick Slover directed this with the help of Jakob Jones as the director of photography.

On November 29th LB Films had to film three short films in just one day over Thanksgiving break. After wrapping up the drama short film at around noon, next came the romance scene. The romance film featured Kaden Stramez and Wylea Walker as actors in a bar scene. To turn this ordinary classroom into a bar, Jakob Jones and his dad Jeff Jones put colored filters into the production lighting to give the room a blue and purple tint. LB Films then set up a table with a couple drinks and there you have it- a bar scene. To give the lighting a little more help, LB Films uses a fog machine before every take to give a little haze for the light to catch.

The last film of the day to shoot at the Albany campus is the comedy short. In this short, Jakob Jones plays a criminal being interrogated by two good cops, Konoha Tomono-Duval and Kristopher Logan. This classroom used to film in is located in madrone hall at LBCC and was picked due to the brick wall behind them. Picking the right location is crucial to the filming process. This room was picked to fit the look of an interrogation room without having to change or alter the background in anyway.