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 [...]

I’m finally done with my two back-to-back film sets as Key Grip and Best Boy Electric. We wrapped at 12:45 am last night, pushing just about every Film School rule with overtime and wrap times to the limit.
I learned a few things during the past two sets. One, though this is more true if you’re [...]

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 [...]

Just got back from watching the dailies from the first show I worked on. Everyone that works on the show is required to attend, no matter what their position, mainly so we can associate what happened on set and how everything was set up with what the final picture looks like.
Dailies is actually a pretty [...]

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’m not exactly feeling too well today, so I’ll just write about five keyboard shortcuts I found to be the most useful during the editing process.

‘J-K-L’ - Easy Playback - Typically I’ll have my right hand on the mouse and left hand over J-K-L on the keyboard. These three keys allow me to easily move [...]

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 [...]

“…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 [...]

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 [...]