by Joey Daoud | Apr 7, 2008 | Film Festival
“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...
by Joey Daoud | Apr 3, 2008 | Film Festival
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...
by Joey Daoud | Mar 30, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
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...
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 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....
by Joey Daoud | Feb 23, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
The past week has been all editing, with a few classes thrown in. I’ve been having a lot of fun with the process. To explain a bit about it, this is the first time we’re not editing our own films. There’s three editing cycles, followed by three sound...
by Joey Daoud | Feb 17, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
Wednesday I finally got to see all the footage from my F3, and I think it looks great. It was a lot funnier than I had anticipated, but it was the comedy I was hoping for. Dry, this-is-life-and-it’s-funny comedy. The strange thing about seeing the footage,...
by Joey Daoud | Feb 16, 2008 | Cameras
Yesterday was our first cinematography class. We had to choose the worst shot from the F3 we were Director of Photography on, bring it in, and discuss what went wrong. It was a good idea, and a good way to learn. My shot (not the one pictured above) was this clunky...
