Matt Filo's Blog

When I first started planning the video, I divided it into five main sections to tell the story of how a typical day in Giese, the theater building at the University of Mount Union, would be.   First people enter the building, and the space they are working in. In the morning/afternoon there is a dance class, usually before or after people will practice their dance either individually or in their small groups.   Then there is either rehearsal or people will go to either theatre to practice lines or blocking for an upcoming production.   Then later in the evening techs will program and adjust lights for a production or event.   Finally, people will shut lights off, and the building will go dark. A big help for all this was having access to the theater building.   This allowed me to create that real story to put the viewer in the prospective that they are just a fly on the wall watching what is happening throughout the day. In my video, there were a lot of cuts to show the pas