by Joey Daoud | Mar 21, 2008 | Exhibition, Movies
Last week, to end spring break, some Film School friends and I met up at Universal Studios for a day of Florida Resident Discount thrills. I’m more of a Disney person ((I think Imagineering is one of the coolest jobs)), and hadn’t been to Universal in a...
by Joey Daoud | Mar 10, 2008 | Film School
Lately I’ve been reading blogs about presentations, from Presentation Zen to Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero. They’ve introduced a new way of doing PowerPoint (or Keynote) presentations, one that draws a lot of parallels with filmmaking, such as using...
by Joey Daoud | Mar 7, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
So the editing for my F3, How to Sell Your Soul, is locked. Of course there’s always doubts. For the most part it was a painless process, and I’m very happy with the final cut. We have a run-time limit of 6:30 for content. The first cut was 1:47 over. The...
by Joey Daoud | Mar 4, 2008 | Cameras
Here are a few notes I dug up from an early cinematography class. They’re short and good to keep in mind. Eye first looks at what is moving, then what’s brightest. Film is a 2-Dimensional medium. The idea is to create the appearance of 3 dimensions through...
by Joey Daoud | Feb 29, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
It’s time to flip flop. I locked Lauren’s picture on Tuesday, meaning all the edits and cuts are done. All that’s left are titles and sound design. Wednesday Lauren began editing my film. I’m not involved in this process, nor do I want to be....