It’s time to flip flop. I locked Lauren’s picture on Tuesday, meaning all the edits and cuts are done. All that’s left are titles and sound design.
Wednesday Lauren began editing my film. I’m not involved in this process, nor do I want to be. She’s making her cut, without regard to run-time, and Saturday we’ll [...]

The past week has been all editing, with a few classes thrown in. I’ve been having a lot of fun with the process. To explain a bit about it, this is the first time we’re not editing our own films. There’s three editing cycles, followed by three sound design cycles.
I’m editing Lauren’s film, and next [...]

Wednesday I finally got to see all the footage from my F3, and I think it looks great. It was a lot funnier than I had anticipated, but it was the comedy I was hoping for. Dry, this-is-life-and-it’s-funny comedy.
The strange thing about seeing the footage, though, is earlier in the afternoon we had spent a [...]

Yesterday was our first cinematography class. We had to choose the worst shot from the F3 we were Director of Photography on, bring it in, and discuss what went wrong. It was a good idea, and a good way to learn.
My shot (not the one pictured above) was this clunky 180 hand-held we tried. [...]

While most of The Treasonist, the second film I produced, took place inside, the opening was supposed to have truckloads of shock-troops pile out of transports, ready to neutralize the hostage situation. I tried contacting the Army reserve, but by the time I got in touch with the right person (a week before filming), there [...]

So I directed a movie. Last week had to be the busiest I’ve experienced while at Film School. On Thursday I had breakfast and didn’t eat again until 9:30 pm. And I was never hungry.
The film went off quite well. We got a total of about 60 setups in two days. 20 a day [...]