by Joey Daoud | Jun 11, 2007 | Documentary
It’s been about a week since I’ve locked picture with Cubicles. I meant to post this sooner, but producing has kept me pretty occupied. Below are two things I discovered during the editing process that I will definitely keep in mind in the future. Know...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 8, 2007 | Editing, Video Production
Just got back from watching the dailies from the first show I worked on. Everyone that works on the show is required to attend, no matter what their position, mainly so we can associate what happened on set and how everything was set up with what the final picture...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 6, 2007 | Links
OWL Music Search – The idea behind this service is you upload a song, mark the section you like, and then OWL searches through a database of songs and tries to find similar music that’s under the Creative Commons license. I gave it a shot with Cubicles and...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 5, 2007 | Documentary
Cubicles is locked, taken away from me, abandoned – however you want to put it, it’s done. During the two week editing process I kept track of how long I spent at The Film School and what kept me awake/full during that time. Here’s how that went: 3...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 4, 2007 | Documentary, Tips
Well, I will be by 10 am tomorrow as that’s when the teacher comes in to lock picture. But when you have your own schedule, it’s hard to finally say, “this is it, the film is done.” Each time I watch Cubicles I find something to tweak or...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 3, 2007 | Tips
I’m not exactly feeling too well today, so I’ll just write about five keyboard shortcuts I found to be the most useful during the editing process. ‘J-K-L’ – Easy Playback – Typically I’ll have my right hand on the mouse and...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 2, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid
I realized that the posts are not exactly organized in the best way for someone who is trying to learn the filmmaking process step-by-step, so to make life a lot easier, I’ve just create The Filmmaking Process page. All past posts are organized into one of the...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 2, 2007 | Documentary, Film School
I left for the Film School Thursday night at 11 and didn’t come home until 6pm this afternoon, thus surviving my first Film School sleep over. It wasn’t that I had procrastinated working on Cubicles, I just got into the editing zone and wanted to get as...
by Joey Daoud | May 31, 2007 | Documentary
Yesterday I decided to call Google to try to speak to their Public Relations department to see if they had some images of the Googleplex that I could use in the documentary. Surprisingly I got the typical automated machine runaround, but after punching in a few...
by Joey Daoud | May 30, 2007 | Links
Sonnyboo’s Free Downloads – The only place where I could find the Film Festival Laurel Leaves. Also has FBI warning, color bars, storyboard templates, paper work, and more. Shooting for the Web – Nice list of tips of things you can do during...
