by Joey Daoud | Jun 7, 2008 | Film School, Uncategorized
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...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 5, 2008 | 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...
by Joey Daoud | May 30, 2008 | 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...
by Joey Daoud | May 30, 2008 | Video Production
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...
by Joey Daoud | May 20, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
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...