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My Daughter the Terrorist [Documentary]

Apr 15, 2008 | ,

Perhaps a little heavy for a 10 AM screening, with an occasional missing head and dead body, I still enjoyed My Daughter the Terrorist. It's about the civil war in Sri-Lanka - a war I didn't know was happening. Labeled by the world as terrorists, the film follows two...

The Perfect Storm

Apr 14, 2008 | ,

The storm has calmed. Last week really was the perfect storm, as my friend Justin and I described it ((I wanted to post the clip from The Office when Pam needs Michael to sign three forms that fall on the same day every few months, thus creating her perfect storm....

Coffee and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Apr 7, 2008 |

"Full Frame is my Holy Grail, more than Sundance," I overhear from a guy sitting behind me before a film starts. "Did you go to Sundance?" "No." While I'm in the same position as Mr. King Arthur behind me, having not attended Sundance to compare, I agree with his...

Full Frame Take Two

Apr 3, 2008 |

I raved about the great experience I had last year at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, so it's no surprise that I am returning this year with a few classmates who felt the same way. I'm leaving tomorrow, the day the festival starts. Armed with a student pass, I...

Warning – Sound Mixing May Cause ADD

Mar 30, 2008 |

This is the home stretch - the last cycle of sound design. For eight days I'm back in the post hallway/cave, sound designing my own movie. I appreciate the importance of sound. An audience can forgive bad images, but not bad sound. But for some reason, I find myself...

Disney and Universal in 4-D!

Mar 21, 2008 | ,

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 while (we went...

Presentations and Filmmaking

Mar 10, 2008 |

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 storytelling and visual...

No More Changes [Editing]

Mar 7, 2008 |

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 cut we just...

Cinematography Notes

Mar 4, 2008 |

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...