Saying that a person’s craft and their work are the same thing is a view point I would disagree with. Then there is the idea that work is a thing many folks have to do to make money while using one’s craft is a thing some people feel lucky to get paid to do. Perhaps Read More…
Category: Creativity
Two Unit Day
As about any micro-budget, independent, bootstrap, blah blah blah production we did a lot with a small crew. I’ve mentioned some of this before; our AD handling stuff like continuity, our FX and make-up department was one hard working lady, our key grip/gaffer/electrical was one hard working dude. And then our Cinematography duo were also Read More…
Director & Cinematographer
If your DP and you haven’t shot something, with purpose, prior to your first day on set you’re obviously going to have a number of rough moments at the start. Now when I say ‘with purpose’ I mean something that is on a schedule and is aiming at a final product. Think a short or Read More…
Not your job… yet!
I, along with pretty much everyone else who worked on the film, have a day job. For me personally I run a big machine at a factory. Now my assumption is that all of the folks who aided in the production would like to be working professionally in film, but none of us are getting Read More…
My late appreciation for horror
I never really watched much horror growing up, or until I hit about 30. I had seen some of the classic horror films, but never sought out things that were coming out in the 90s and early aughts. I dig thriller and suspense, and if horror hews close to that I can really get behind Read More…
I don’t particularly dig short films
I don’t like most shorts I’ve seen, I haven’t liked pretty much any short film idea I’ve ever come up with, and I don’t really think there’s much to be gained out of a short outside better technical skill. Feel free to disagree with me wholesale or on any individual point. For ideas I’ve come Read More…
Other ideas… I’m not doing
So there was desire to make a movie. And I’ve got the land and resources and the time to do something I wanted to do for a long ass time. So the question became what did I want to do? I’ve alreay talked about that a bit previously, at least in terms of doing something Read More…
The other way
So you want to make films. The way I see it there are two options; make something or find something else to do. There is a third option, where you work your way up, which I tried for a minute and never liked it. I’ve also done the second option a ton, the finding something Read More…