by Joey Daoud | May 20, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid
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...
by Joey Daoud | May 20, 2007 | Documentary, Movies
As noted before, some classmates aren’t the biggest fans of the documentary aspect of our curriculum. Reasons vary from the lack of full creative control, non-fictional (educational) stories, or just sheer dislike for the documentary genre. I’ll admit that...
by Joey Daoud | May 19, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid
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...
by Joey Daoud | May 17, 2007 | Documentary, Software
I’m finally in the last stretch of transcribing my documentary footage, so I’ll keep this post short. I thought I’d talk about the amazing software that I’ve been using to help me in my task – InqScribe. Basically it’s a video...
by Joey Daoud | May 15, 2007 | Documentary, Exhibition, Film Business, Film Festival
Being that our second semester was mainly dominated by documentaries, The Film School supports us in going to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which ran from April 12-15 in Durham, NC. I know this post is slightly overdue, but I was waiting for the Festival...
by Joey Daoud | May 15, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid
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...
by Joey Daoud | May 14, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid
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...
by Joey Daoud | May 13, 2007 | Film School, Links
There’s been a lot of talk about the RED camera, and I’ve been kind of skeptical of it, but this sample clip from a film shot by Peter Jackson looks pretty amazing (via FreshDV). Supposedly the Film School is supposed to be ordering some, but I’m...
by Joey Daoud | May 12, 2007 | Film Business, Links
I’ve been digging through some of my film blog feeds and uncovered a few articles of interest. Enjoy. It’s Not a Sequel, but It Might Seem Like One After the Ads NY Times, April 24, 2007 – Very interesting article on the downfall of original material...
by Joey Daoud | May 11, 2007 | Film Festival
I don’t really plan on announcing every new film festival that has an open entry call (for every festival you could want to enter visit www.withoutabox.com), but I just got an e-mail from the CLGIFF announcing that right now the Early Bird entry deadline (May...
