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 ‘zeros’ I was able to get a live person.
I [...]

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 production to help keep your file size low in post.
Connection, Conflict, and Clues [...]

“…always present your best cut.” That was probably one of the more useful pieces of advice I got from Editing Professor Bill after I screened the first cut of Cubicles yesterday to him and Editing Professor Sandro.
I felt the screening went pretty well. As always with critique, you have to filter out the genuine issues [...]

During a futile attempt to contact the publisher of Office Space Planning, it hit me that I have a blog with readers (many thanks to FreshDV), so referring back to the previous post, I’m on a quest for B-roll. I’ve got plenty of pre-cubicle footage, but now I need some more current office spaces.
So if [...]

This will be a fairly short post because I have a lot of work to do today. Right now I’m on a search for B-roll - any footage that will support or better illustrate the documentary.
I mentioned the Prelinger Archives before, but now I’ve finally had time to dig through it and I’ve found some [...]

Editing is going a lot quicker than I imagined. I just finished a rough cut that I’m pretty happy with yesterday, and I got some great feedback from the editing teacher.
I realized I never finished recounting the epic Spring Break Documentary Road Trip or went into details as to the making of Cubicles (as it [...]

Yesterday’s editing went quite well. I’ve got a 6:50 Thought Cut, so at least there’s something to show. But it’s far from over. I’m not too happy with the way that cut went, but going through the footage led me to another core idea that I might try today. Here are some more thoughts I [...]

I left The Film School around 2:30 after some late night editing. I’m extremely happy that I can finally say audios to Avid and work with the far superior Final Cut Pro (FCP). However, I’m still a loyal Adobe Premiere fan, and after some footage capture hickups1 yesterday I still stand behind them. Unfortunately, I [...]

I come across a lot of film related sites/articles of interest all the time, but instead of becoming a link blog and making a new post for each one, I’ll just post a weekly summary of things I’ve found that might be of interest. And since Wednesday is our day off between thesis sets, it [...]

I have five hours of footage (300 minutes) spanning seven tapes that I must now whittle down into one amazing seven minute documentary. It’s definitely intimidating. I think it’s worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack because I don’t care if I don’t find the needle and no one’s going to criticize [...]