New Set, Different Job

Saturday was picture wrap for the show I Key Gripped, but there’s no time to recover as yesterday started a brand new show where I’m Best Boy Electric. Most of the crew that I worked with Thursday-Saturday is also on this show. The sudden shift is slightly...

A World Within a City

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...

Farewell Greenlit Films

Thesis films are over. And as far as film school films go, we’ve shot our last frame. Hopefully these won’t be the last films we make. The realization that this was the end hit me when I was walking to the final location on my set. Perhaps that’s why...

Director’s Prep

The Director’s Prep was a lot shorter and painless than people had made it out to be (maybe because this is a fairly simple film). On the administrative side, the Head of Production, Cinematography, Screenwriting, and Editing teachers attended. Crew wise, it was...

Tech Scout

Continuing with the Art Directing pre-production for my first thesis film, I went with some of the main crew members the other night to check out a location we were shooting at to see what kind of props we would need to get. Luckily, not that many. The Director wants...