by Joey Daoud | Aug 10, 2007 | Film School, Uncategorized
A tentacle is being shot on a blue screen so it can later be superimposed over some other footage. The trick with blue and green screen is to light the screen evenly and not have any color spill onto what you want to remove. Normally you’d want a larger screen...
by Joey Daoud | Dec 27, 2007 | Film School, Video Production
In looking at past posts, I realized I never laid out what exactly an F3 is, the project that has and will be taking my attention and life for the next few months. The F stands for Filmmaking. The F1 was our little digital short, the F2 the half day film exercise, and...
by Joey Daoud | May 7, 2008 | Film Business, Video Production
Here’s a story that combines a little six degrees of separation with a hint of networking. I was having dinner last night with my mom at Oriente on Ocean Drive. Across the street, near the beach, we noticed some giant tents set up – looked like some sort...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 7, 2008 | Film School, Uncategorized
As I get ready to DP this Sunday by box building (for lights) and color temperature fretting, I decided to stop by one of the other sets that was filming today. I knew they were shooting in a park near downtown. What I didn’t know was this little park had a lost...
by Joey Daoud | Oct 30, 2008 | Career
At the beginning of the summer I had mentioned how I stumbled on the set of Confessions of a Shopaholic and through a couple degrees of someone who knows someone, I was put in touch with the Location Manager of the show Burn Notice and invited to come out to the set....
