This is the home stretch - the last cycle of sound design. For eight days I’m back in the post hallway/cave, sound designing my own movie.
I appreciate the importance of sound. An audience can forgive bad images, but not bad sound. But for some reason, I find myself unable to focus for long periods of [...]

Last week, to end spring break, some Film School friends and I met up at Universal Studios for a day of Florida Resident Discount thrills. I’m more of a Disney person1, and hadn’t been to Universal in a while (we went to both parks, so when I say Universal I’m referring to both Islands of [...]

Lately I’ve been reading blogs about presentations, from Presentation Zen to Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero. They’ve introduced a new way of doing PowerPoint (or Keynote) presentations, one that draws a lot of parallels with filmmaking, such as using storytelling and visual images, rather than bullet points.
Unfortunately, we don’t get a lot of chances to do [...]

So the editing for my F3, How to Sell Your Soul, is locked. Of course there’s always doubts. For the most part it was a painless process, and I’m very happy with the final cut.
We have a run-time limit of 6:30 for content. The first cut was 1:47 over. The cut we just locked was [...]

Here are a few notes I dug up from an early cinematography class. They’re short and good to keep in mind.

Eye first looks at what is moving, then what’s brightest.
Film is a 2-Dimensional medium. The idea is to create the appearance of 3 dimensions through composition, lighting, and camera movies. Tilt, Pan, and Zoom are [...]