Film. A love/hate relationship

I've been neglecting this blog for a bit. Just been so busy. I've been getting a bunch of new equipment in the mail lately. Finally got a quality slate.

In the beginning of January I'll be working on a film called Tick Tock Boom Clap. Theyre located in the Santa Rosa area and its gonna be a big production. Along with the various crew tasks I'll be working on Continuity and taking production stills and behind the scenes footage for the film. That'll be really fun. Its actually something I wouldn't mind doing on a production. The shoot is from Jan 4th to the 16th, then another week in february. Damn I'm gonna be tired.

http://www.roaringmouseproductions.com/

game time

Being 7 days from a shoot I start to go crazy with the producer hat. Therre are so many things running through my head right now. I still need to lock down all my actors. All my locations. Props. Costumes. My crew. Logistics. Equipment. everything. And I still need to finalize my shotlists. Damn. I'm going insane.

Theres a school film festival coming up in a few days. I helped out on a short there so I'm interested to see how it turns out. Most student film festivals are so horrible. They're so bad that they're funny. And thats pretty much what I have come to expect the last few years. Damn, did I just say years?

So I wrote a short film that I'd really like to get going. I've written it in mind with both my THEA 50 instructors Dyan McBride and George Maguire. Hopefully they'll think the script is good and they'll wanna do it. That would be just insane cause they're both SAG actors.

Coffee and dvds

So tonight marks another sleepless night. I'm burning copies of my student's work onto dvds. I'm playing a shitload of guitar. Ideas are running through my mind and I can't type fast enough to jot them all down. These are the times that I thank myself for insomnia. Creativity flows, I'm at a good place in life right now. I'm motivated and I have the resources to not waste it.

boxes

There are so many boxes in the office. All the new equipment is cluttering up the place. I'm still waiting for some sd cards. I'm finally seing the pros and cons of buying online vs. in stores. I'm constantly checking the mail and every time I hear a large truck rolling by I just have to check. Its been making me paranoid haha.

So I'm in the works of getting this Googley Eyes short going. Hopefully our shoot date is dec 17th.

FCS, Color, Compressor.. and too much time on my hands

So this is a video we shot a while ago when we were bored as shit and at 2am. When the new Mac came in I installed Final Cut Studio. I have to admit this is a whole new post production beast I'm working with. I'm really digging the color grading on the video, for my first try some of the shots looked incredible.

The Office now has a Mac lab.

Just got in my new 27" I5 mac. this thing is a beast. It makes my old mac look like its from the 80's.. I got some cleaning to do still.

Damn password...

This was weird, I've been trying to log into this damn blog for a couple of days but I 've been having problems with logging in. But I finally got it to work and I'll be posting more shit on this thing soon.