Did my seminar yesterday at the Worthington High School. I went with a new demonstration, which might wind up becoming a new video. Showing that in the 21st Century, something like a boom mic in the shot or crew member shadow doesn’t mean you have to trash the take anymore. Read more…
Working on the next podcast release. It was shot over 4 months ago, the main edit was done 3.5 months ago, and I’m just now getting to the part where I do graphics and finalize it. I turned the “What is Feature Length?” podcast out in a week from the Read more…
So Friday I’m doing a 20 minute presentation for a high school filmmaking class. I’ve decided to do something on how editing has changed with Non Linear, computer based editing. It’s about how options expand with out of the box thinking I plan on showing some raw footage of things like Read more…
This arctic superstorm kinda sucks. Not a lot can get done when you’re huddling in blankets for warmth, teeth chattering. Not a lot of people want to go out and do shoots when the risk is wrecking your car on icy roads. Life in the midwest affects movie making. I have Read more…
Today is my birthday. 42 years old. I don’t have any idea how I feel about that. I am not spending a lot of time thinking about rotations around the Earth and place no particular significance on the arbitrary marking of time. For reasons that elude any kind of rational Read more…
So I finished and released and then marketed the latest Sonnyboo Podcast video on the various definitions of “feature length”. It has sparked much debate, mostly because it has so few agreed upon standards. It’s odd to me to put out a video describing the many union, film festival, governing Read more…
Did a little social media experiment. I made an Internet Meme, one specific to filmmakers (duh). I took a sketch of Stanley Kubrick and put a famous quote of his out there and placed a decent sized (not too big, not too small) JPG on the facebook, then started a Read more…
Got the piece shot, but a no-go on the HD-SDI experiment. I could get 60i, but no 24P (60 interlaced fields versus 24 progressive, whole frames per second). I liked the aesthetic of 24 frames per second, a holdover from the film days because it is a perfect frame rate Read more…
Going to record a couple greenscreen things today. The big experiment is to try to go straight from the camera HD-SDI to the hard drive via our Matrox MX02 LE box. I tried this once before and couldn’t work it out in time. I want to be able to record Read more…
I find it so odd that Hollywood is remaking POINT BREAK when they already did a decade ago. It was called THE FAST & THE FURIOUS. Remakes are getting so bad that I hope that the entire traditional system fails miserably and utterly. Some new style or genre is about Read more…
At the last Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Festival, I was a guest lecturer and I did something on distribution. I have since shot this as a greenscreen Sonnyboo Podcast that as sat edited, sans anything in the green for several months. Last night I started to work on the prep work Read more…
I really have gotten better at watching movies. Committing to sitting still for 2 hours and turning my brain mostly off seems like it wouldn’t take a lot of effort but it does. No clue why, just not something I’ve done a lot of lately about 3 years. I just Read more…