With one producing job down, I've already picked up a few tricks to make things go easier for time two. Below are a few free web apps that help keep things organized (a lot were also used during documentary making). Most have a mobile option, which makes them very...
Film School
Scouting for a Corner Office
On Monday, my Producer and I finally got around to doing some pre-production work for my F3. The two main locations I need is an open cubicle area and a really nice corner office, one that is soul-worthy. Most of the downtown area is either government buildings or law...
Prepare to Sell Your Soul
Today is Director's Prep for my film, and the last for the F3 cycle. Between Production Design and Directing, these past two weeks have been the busiest yet. I feel slightly unprepared, mainly because I have no cast. But I do have locations, and they're great, so...
Presentations and Filmmaking
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...
Feels Like a Venti Day
Deadlines seem to be the ultimate motivator. After four days of taking it easy and not being able to do much producing because everyone else was taking it easy, I got more done yesterday, between finishing getting locations, deals on hotel rooms for actors, and a lot...
500 Days of Summer
This past weekend Geoffrey Gilmore was back with a new film straight from Sundance - 500 Days of Summer, starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Marc Webb. I loved it. I thought it was the best love story I've seen since Eternal Sunshine, and...
BattleBots and South Beach
It's been a while and I'm sorry, but here's where my life in the real world is at: I'm officially done with Film School and FSU, got my diploma and everything. It was a weird last semester because I was editing and doing pick-ups for UnderCover and finishing You 2.0,...
The Last Location Scout [Producing]
Two Eagle Scouts hiking in the woods without water. We survived, and this is where we're at today. With plenty of water.
That’s a Double Wrap
So UnderCover has wrapped and I graduated from Film School. Don't worry, I'll still be at school editing UnderCover and You 2.0. In between wrapping the film and graduating, I had so much stuff to catch up on I ended up sleeping at the film school one last night. Then...