He finally kills the guy and catces up to the Fat Man.
I hope this blog can serve as a resource for ideas to other ambitious filmmakers and as a window to my experience for fellow collaborators. If you have a project that you would like me to be involved in I can be reached at (205) 441-4392.
May 31, 2006
May 30, 2006
May 29, 2006
SURVIVOR ON THE QUAD
This is a feature length documentary that I edited back in 2000. We had 70 hours of footage covering this week long event. I cut it on a Media 100 system with limited space so it was a linear/nonlinear edit process. The narrative was broken up into days. So I would cut 1 or 2 days and then lay them out to tape, delete media, redigitize and move on to the next few days until the entire narrative was cut. It was a "survivor" of a project. It involved 3 months of editing. I have to say that in the end I think the narrative is somewhat more compelling than the actual show. Because it is feature length you get to know the characters more. It was shot more like a documentary than a show so it kind of ping pongs in style. Neat learning experience.
May 28, 2006
So what was Survivor?
Here's a little more about it from the back cover of the tape case. May want to click on the jpg in order to read it.
May 27, 2006
May 26, 2006
Turkey and Cheese
Here's a poster design I did in Photoshop for a video short my good friend, Neil Katcher, my sister - Kenda and myself created back in the summer of 1994. This is one of several short videos I made with friends in West Nyack, NY that was shot with a VHS RCA camcorder.
We did everything in camera using the audio dub feature. This made for an entirely different production methodology. We shot the story in sequence. It was fun playing ping pong between locations but also made the acting (if you want to call it that) more easy to stay consistent. Because of the limitations of the fly erase head onboard the camcorder we only had 3 or 4 takes before we would have to go back and shoot the last shot over again. I really enjoyed this way of doing things.
The summer of 1994 was a good summer for hobbie video making. My friends and I put together a "curriculum" of video excercises using the aforementioned methodology until we got it down to a science. In fact there are several other videos I will post thumbnails from during this period. It really made me focus more on blocking, line delivery and composition much more. Where does the shot start and where does it end. Rehearsal was usually essential and storyboarding also helped to nail the takes.
Turkey and Cheese was a culmination project. Neil and I wrote it Friday afternoon and began shooting later that night. My sister got into the mix Saturday afternoon. If I was in the shot Neil operated camera. If I wasn't in the shot I operated the camera and if both of us were in the shot my sister operated the camera (her footage was some of the best shot in my opinion - her acting was strong too) There was a chase scene at the end that my Father shot.
We shot all through the night Saturday and all the way up to the screening at around 9pm Sunday night. It was alomost a SCRAMBLE. The video runs about 15 minutes and is still one of my favorites.
AS A SIDE NOTE:
Neil Katcher is the creator of a new stage performance program called MORTIFIED. I put a link to that program at the top right portion of this blog. It was featured on NPR a while back and is pretty funny! It involves people reading their most embarrassing and intimant journal entries from the past to complete strangers. Check it out...
