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New Developments on The Creative Front

29. November 2009

In light of my ramble about being the filmmaker I want to be, I have been taking it upon myself to be a more active filmmaker. At 1am the night before Thanks Giving, I made a crazy impulsive decision to drive to Plymouth, MA for the National Day Of Mourning gathering near Plymouth Rock. It [...]

So Much To Do – Moving & Refining Life Goals

11. October 2009

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It’s been a little longer than I would have liked since my last blog post but I still really enjoy having this outlet to share my thoughts and creative experiences. However, sometimes there is just too much going on in life to sit down and take time to write. But the more wonderful and supportive [...]

Tampa Bound – More Shooting for Our Side of Joy

13. July 2009

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Well, I had to make a very difficult decision to shoot more footage for my documentary “Our Side of Joy”. After having returned from an excellent workshop on documentary story structure given by Fernanda Rossi, I knew I was going to have to do more shooting. The best thing is that the workshop was so excellent [...]

Two Hours or Less – Almost There

16. February 2009

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I’m just about finished getting Our Side Of Joy down to two hours or less. It’s still a very tough process. It feels as if this film is really two complete films in one and most likely that’s pretty much what it is. It has caused me to think about my documentary career. Before [...]

Moving Forward – Staying on Track

28. December 2008

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I’m working on one of my docs and I’m glad that I’ve been experimenting with other films in between because I learned about a simple feature Adobe Premier offers (Multiple sequences in a project. A basic feature, I know.) that has helped me tremendously with organizing the footage for this doc and helping me know [...]

New Films

11. December 2008

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Well I’m doing my Aries thing as usual. I didn’t shoot “Old Wounds”, instead I shot a video on how to make fake intestines for HowCast.com (so not worth it), and I shot a short film called “Anything”. This was originally supposed to just be a one weekend shoot but I think I’d like to [...]

Back to working on documentary, Our Side of Joy

29. November 2008

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Well I’m back to working on “Our Side of Joy”. I’ve been trying to figure out why I don’t just work on these two docs I have sitting here already filmed. I think I just don’t like editing. *smile* I can do it, yes. But I don’t like it. I think on future projects, if [...]

New Short Flim

13. November 2008

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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 Fun Begins: Editing My Docs

11. October 2008

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Well I started really editing one of my docs this weekend. Boy, do I have a lot of work to do. hahaha Well I got 8 hours of footage down to a little less than 6 hours. Now all I have to do is get it down to less than 2 hours. Whoa! Tomorrow I’ll be [...]

The Making of Two Docs

2. August 2008

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I’d like to take a moment to talk about how I made these two documentaries; “Our Side of Joy” and “Charise: A Portrait of an African American with Albinism”. I’ve gotten some e-mails asking about equipment and process, etc. Equipment for these two films: This was obviously something I spent days and days planning because I was [...]