Gathering props for the first day of filmming. # Fiished New Deal. Setting up for first shot. # Setting up 12 by. Sun is starting to come out. # Going for picture - first shot of day. Roll camera... # Acting as extra. # Break for lunch - One Fresh stir fry. Summer...
Coffee & Celluloid
It’s Off to Set I Go
Tomorrow marks the start of the first thesis film I'll be working on. A shooting day is split up into two six-hour blocks, with at least a half-hour for lunch and the possibility of overtime (a thirteen-plus hour day is not uncommon). Since the film isn't too...
Coffee To-Go
Google Reader Mobile does a pretty good job in serving RSS feeds on my phone, but I find that sometimes they break the articles up a bit too much, requiring a bunch of clicking and scrolling past all the Google links. Now in the Imports section are various links to...
The Tin of Knowledge
Introducing a new page - with more links. The Tin of Knowledge is a link page broken down into the different stages of film production, with links to sites relevant to each step of the process. It's kind of bare at the moment, but for over 250 links, check out my...
Not My Fault
I have a good reason now for not posting. I was in the hospital. But I'm out now. And fine. I think. Some posts to come.
The Picture is Locked…
...and I haven't nearly posted all I wanted to about F1s. To the invisible reader: force all your emotion into asking questions in comments about what I should explain, Patrick Swayze style. We actually locked last week, I just never got around to posting it. What is...
That’s Just Crazy Talk
A nice list of idea killers. Probably intended for business folk, but it all applies in the writer's room. Though I guess laughter would be good if you're writing a comedy. Berkun blog >> Idea killers: ways to stop ideas
One Friday the 13th to Rule Them All
Or at least in the past 476 years. All of the digits in today's date add up to 13. (1+0)+(1+3)+(2+0+0+6)=13 "The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the...
Be Brilliant – No Previous Experience Required
The Bard scores one point today as Discovery.com reports: A computational fingerprint that uniquely characterizes William Shakespeare’s writing style is helping dispel any lingering doubts that he penned his own plays. The method could serve as a literary device to...