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About deaconwarner

Deacon Warner is the youth program director at FilmNorth and a freelance filmmaker.

Table Reads & Green Screens

This week Azi and intern Blongsha busted out the green screen. Azi’s project “The Billhilly” has a scene where his character shows up onto a computer screen and tears a file on its desktop. So we set up the c-stands … Continue reading

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Finishing Up Project 1

This week students shot their last scenes of project 1. Here, Noah works as DP on Nathan’s film, called “Cease At Once, Ex BF.” It’s a comedy about the fickleness of dating in high school. Nathan hosted auditions among JuiceMedia … Continue reading

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Rebuild-A-Scene!

This week we recreated a scene from Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom!” The students received a piece of paper with each frame on it, a box of props, and FilmNorth’s professional film equipment. They broke out into three groups: set design, … Continue reading

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Week 1 Fall 2019!

Week one of JuiceMedia is complete! On the first day, we jumped right into mock 48 hour film projects. Students broke out into groups then received a genre, prop, and line of dialogue that they had to craft their film … Continue reading

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The Spring 2019 Final Screening!

The final screening was a blast! Before the event began, students helped set-up, doing everything from arranging chairs in the screening room to stapling together the         brochures. They included the film titles and run-times, as well … Continue reading

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Everything From Pre to Post

The students have been busy with everything from pitching, pre-poduction, production, and post this week! Pearl (shown on the left) pitched her idea for a video poem last week and has begun shooting it on FilmNorth’s Canon T2i. She is … Continue reading

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Wing Young Huie Visit

This Tuesday, the globally recognized photographer Wing Young Huie gave a workshop for the JuiceMedia and SPNN students. He is most famous for his street photography project where he took pictures of people on Lake Street in Minneapolis. He then … Continue reading

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Intro Projects = Great Success!

And just like that, the intro projects have been completed! The students made these incredible videos in just two days. Many of the returning members taught the new members how to use Premiere, as well as the cameras and mics. … Continue reading

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The Spring Session Has Begun!

Despite the slew of cancellations due to bad weather, an awesome group of students were able to come for the first day of JuiceMedia! We had the students get into groups then gave each group a prop, a line of … Continue reading

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Final Screening

 JuiceMedia’s Fall 2018 final screening took place yesterday! It was a well-attended event full of pizza, cookies, and amazing youth films. Baine and Na’Riyah kicked things off with a short overview of what they learned and did in JuiceMedia over … Continue reading

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