A World Within a City

As I get ready to DP this Sunday by box building (for lights) and color temperature fretting, I decided to stop by one of the other sets that was filming today. I knew they were shooting in a park near downtown. What I didn’t know was this little park had a lost...

Full Battle Rattle [Documentary]

Out in the middle of the Mojave desert at Ft. Irwin, California, is a billion dollar mock Iraq village in an Army training center, filled with Iraqi roll players. Before units are deployed to Iraq, they come here for three weeks to simulate what they will encounter in...

I Claim Life Hacking Documentary

That’s right. In keeping with my fascination of offices and productivity, my next doc is on life hacking. It’s been tough explaining life hacking in one sentence. I’ve been going with ‘an online community dedicated to finding shortcuts to save...

The Glamour of Producing

Ten cans of film have been turned in after the longest producing job I’ve had yet – six days of summer thesis kick-off. You get three days to shoot your thesis film, or you can team up and double your resources as the DP and Director did here and shoot for...

I’m Not Dead Yet

So I went from a post a day to nil. As you might guess, school has started again and to kick things off I’m producing. I have all these post ideas (like how Burn Notice went, a battle between students and faculty, and how I drove Geoffrey Gilmore, Director of...