Cinematographer Notes

All set with the final edit of It’s Not You. I’m just balancing sound levels.  I was able to export a FCP movie file and then drag that into MPEG Streamclip and from there export an MPEG4 file in 1080p 24p to a USB drive and it plays on the PS3 nicely.  Looks good.  I […]

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“Official Rejection” is the title of a new documentary about a group of filmmakers trying to take their movie to festivals.  I’ve thrown about this idea for a while and I’m not surprised that I wasn’t the only one who came up with this.  It’s long overdue.  Along with the narrative a few years ago […]

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STATE OF THE VILLAGE REPORT
If the world were a village of only 100 people, there would be:

60 Asians,
14 Africans,
12 Europeans,
8 people from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean,
5 from the USA and Canada, and
1 […]

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Here’s the trailer for Anika.  It’s still being worked on but I think they’re onto something.  Hoping the financing comes through.

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I’ve recently come across Greg Araki’s film The Living End which has been entirely remastered in HD from the original 16mm negative.  I watched it projected and it was like seeing it for the first time.  The original VHS was horrible.  I then checked out some interview footage on youtube using the playstation and found […]

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Today was the big shoot day and it went pretty smooth once we actually started working.  The trouble occurred early in the morning when I couldn’t get the locks off my van cause it was below freezing and they were stuck.  The tragedy of this was that the same exact thing happened when I shot […]

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