New Short Flim

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

I’m taking a break from working on my two documentaries to make a new short film. I was going to film a short called Old Wounds but I’ve had to re-evaluate the project. I spent all last night going over the script and determining what would be needed to film the movie. Ultimately now isn’t the right time. We have Winter weather right now and this movie needs to be filmed when it’s Spring or Fall. Sometimes you can work around things like that but due to the subject matter, shooting it in the Winter would make the storyline less believable. So, Old Wounds will have to wait again. Now, I’m looking for a new script but I think I may end up writing it myself. I still would like to make a short with little or no dialogue. I look forward to spending some time creating the atmosphere and mood for this film without having to worry about dialogue delivery. I’ll be making this film under my film and production companies, Still Guerrilla Films and High Contrast Media. I love doing documentaries but honestly I would much rather do one every couple of years and balance it by filming one or two fictional films in between. The first fiction film I did was called Sociopathica. I filmed it when I got my new DVX100B and I wanted to learn how to use the camera. I can not tell you how valuable it was for me to have done that. The film is definitely your typical “B” movie but it was a lot of fun to do and I learned so much from the experience. I learned how to create a workable shooting schedule, to have a much better understanding about lighting, how to film shots based on an editing plan, how to create cool special effects, and best of all, how to really use Adobe After Effects and become a much better editor. I was amazed at how much better my editing had become when I started creating the trailers for my two new docs. Had I not worked on Sociopathica first, I would have spent way too much time learning all of the things I learned from making that film instead of being able to push my new docs onto a more professional creative path.

So, now I’m committed to creating quality films with Still Guerrilla Films and High Contrast Media just as I have with Ijaba Films.

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Tressa Sanders - who has written 107 posts on Three West.

Tressa Sanders, founder of Three West Creative Development, Asabi Publishing, and Ijaba Films, provides active learning, workshops for business Image, publishing, creative writing, graphics design, and filmmaking. In addition, she has authored the curriculum for the Big Bad Business Image, Concise Publishing, and Creative Writing workshops as well as several literary titles. Tressa also holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology and authored the introduction for a book titled “A Peek Inside the Goo: Depression & The Borderline Personality”. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Tressa was a well established Information Technology professional working with the largest IT, communication, utilities and financial companies in the country. Some of the companies Tressa has worked for include, the New York Independent System Operator, GE Capital Business Asset Funding, IBM Global Services, AT & T Wireless, Hewlett Packard, MCI/Worldcom, GTE, and Sprint. Her areas of expertise include: Publishing Startup & Planning, Business Image Planning, Creative Writing Development, Effective Graphics Design, Cost Conservative Filmmaking.

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