My day started off with a location scout for a Cell Phone Monologue and ended with a title sequence for the new webseries with a class in between and lots of little tinkerings and edits. At least one bad habit has returned and that’s the not-eating-because-I-lost-track-of-7-hours-editing syndrome. Strangely, there are Read more…
I ran out of Led Zeppelin songs to use as titles for the blog, so I’m back to alliteration of sesquipedalianism. Many things seem to be back to ‘normal‘ for me, if such a thing exists. Lack of sleep, no real down time, and non-stop creation in some form or Read more…
Did a shoot last night again, got the ‘scene’ and the intro done. Shot with the Sony F3 with the Samurai hard drive recorder. You get a significantly higher data rate that way (35 megs per second versus 250 megs per second bit rate). For greenscreen, which all of this Read more…
The pressure of the projects lined up affects my sleep. Anxiety dreams and all kinds of stress keep me from getting good rest. Meetings about different projects, amping up the preparation, and generally worrying; this is what my nights are like now. I’m trying to calculate every angle and decision Read more…
A new outlet has occurred to me. As I embark on several new movie projects, both long and short, the harder ones to get seen are the short ones. Sure, there’s the YouTubes, but beyond that I don’t feel the ‘new’ way is the only way. Television ain’t dead yet, Read more…
I am hammering these bitches out. Instead of going to the movies or watching a Blu Ray marathon, I edit these little clips together, obsessing over minutiae as I go. At the end of each completed edit, I dance a little jig. I kick it old school, Parliament/Funkadelic or 1970’s Read more…
And life keeps elevating me lately. Hot damn, getting some creative work done energizes every part of me. Framelines on track, almost done with 16 episodes including closed captions. Two of my webseries are about to either start or continue. Feature film on the books and scripts getting breakdowns, key Read more…
Teaching ramps down, which is great because I need the time to prep all the film work. Between all the small shoots, Framlines, and the feature all hitting one in a row, your faithful narrator could be crushed under the weight of self imposed pressure. One of my newest tasks will Read more…
And some days reaffirm your beliefs. I’ve just had several of these days. I had two classes, one was the end of a project and the other was my first days with them. To be honest, I was afraid I was losing my mojo being in front of the students. Read more…
I’m using Google Drive extensively now. I’ve made simple spreadsheets for the first season of Framelines, charts about what segments are shot and what state the edit is in, and the release schedule of all the videos. Since I have a laptop that goes to school and work, a PC Read more…
Last night’s Penny Poker night was fun. This year was the first year I actually played poker for more than 2 hands. I played for over an hour at the beginning and then in the wee hours, I played again for over an hour. I cleaned up on silver coins Read more…
So I’ve been cranking away on the Framelines clips. For the fake demonstration scene, I got all the ADR in, some visual effects correction since some shots are daylight and others are nighttime out the big window, and added the ambient sounds and even some foley. Since the purpose is Read more…