“Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.”
-Stanislavski

In the spring semester we had a few acting workshops to prepare us for our F2s. Acting isn’t exactly my favorite thing in the world, and one of my directing weak points. I’d much rather be behind camera with brilliant actors.
So it wasn’t the best news when I heard [...]

I was in New York this past weekend for a little fun and entertainment. I finally got to go to MoMA to see one of my favorite paintings. To my great delight, in the design section they had a whole corner dedicated to one of my favorite documentaries.

Living with Ed Production Notes - Even the production tries to be green.
Survivorman’s Les Stroud - Nice article about the production of Survivorman. The only production costs seem to be replacing their Sony HVR-Z1Us.
50 Greatest Local TV Commercials - If you only watch one, watch the first one.
Film Editor Christopher Rouse on The Bourne Ultimatum
In [...]

I just finished designing the DVD for Cubicles to give out to the crew and interviewees. A lot of people liked the design and asked what was needed, so here’s a guide I wrote up.

Maxell DVD-R Printable
50 for $14.99
Get these while they’re still on sale. When first putting the DVD label on my cheapo CompUSA [...]

It’s finally happened. As previously mentioned, the podcast spin-off of Cubicles has finally launched, though very quietly.
I’m still trying to work out the bugs. I’ll explain my work flow in more detail in another post, but basically I’ve exported the movie into an iPod friendly .m4v 320×240 and am hosting it through my server.
I decided [...]

Each year The Film School holds two open auditions. It’s a really good idea. Anyone can come in. They fill out a form with their information and acting experience, get a head shot, and act out a scene that’s recorded. This is inputted into a database and compiled in a large binder, so when it [...]

Thursday we had to read off outlines based on our pitches. The outlines are a bulleted list of important plot points you need your script to have. Most were within scope, at least time wise. It seems there will be a lot of guns and violence in the screenings next spring. But others still seemed [...]

Five Tips for Finding Writing Time - Some pretty common writing tips, but I agree with Identify Your Productivity Zone. It’s the morning for me.
SpeedEDIT Parody - A parody commercial for SpeedEDIT, an apparently revolutionary editor that is shipping soon. It claims that the workflow breaks away from the cut-and-splice film editing methodology that [...]

Today we had to pitch ideas for our F3 to the entire class. It was more of a “this is where I’m at with my script” versus selling your idea, since anything you decide to go with will get a greenlight.
There were a few good pitches. Some even had scripts written out, while others (including [...]