I’ve got a meeting with the Dean of the Film School today. It’s nothing bad, I scheduled this meeting. When I went to Steelcase for my documentary, I got a two hour tour that covered a lot of interesting office design topics. About a minute ended up in the final cut of Cubicles, so I [...]

It’s been about a week since I’ve locked picture with Cubicles. I meant to post this sooner, but producing has kept me pretty occupied.
Below are two things I discovered during the editing process that I will definitely keep in mind in the future.

Know what your documentary is about before you start filming. This may seem [...]

Cubicles is locked, taken away from me, abandoned - however you want to put it, it’s done. During the two week editing process I kept track of how long I spent at The Film School and what kept me awake/full during that time. Here’s how that went:

3 Cups of Coffee
2 Iced Grande Soy Latte
1 Large [...]

Well, I will be by 10 am tomorrow as that’s when the teacher comes in to lock picture. But when you have your own schedule, it’s hard to finally say, “this is it, the film is done.” Each time I watch Cubicles I find something to tweak or adjust. I’ll be glad to have the [...]

I left for the Film School Thursday night at 11 and didn’t come home until 6pm this afternoon, thus surviving my first Film School sleep over. It wasn’t that I had procrastinated working on Cubicles, I just got into the editing zone and wanted to get as much done as possible before my second cut [...]

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 [...]

“…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 [...]