New Ways to Exploit You!
The new and most awesome way to exploit actors? Make them write! Yes! The best dialog changes come from actors. Better than me having to do it, that's for sure. But we can go even further. We can make them fight directors, second unit directors, and even do fight casting ...
A Model For Business
Edward Jay Epstein writes in this Gawker article about the future of Indie Movies.*****Oddly, we in the "genre" world are not normally considered "indy". Even though we're entirely independent of the big studios. On my snarkier days I might suggest that's because the "indy" world is just jealous that we ...
Chamber Movie
Every time I make a movie I'm accused of saying at some point in the process "Hey, I think we actually made a movie!" only to later say "Well, we made a kind of a dream of a movie, not quite a movie."I'm not saying it this time. We've actually ...
The Diabolical Plot Centered Around Estate Planning
At our screening today we said "hello" to Eric Ian Steele, the writer of Clonehunter. He couldn't make the screening as he lives far away in Manchester, UK. Ben Thomas shot the video. "Hello Eric!"(Steven Cunningham said he loved how the diabolical plot centered around estate planning. That made me ...
Clonehunter Screening
Today was the screening of Clonehunter. I had a Bloody Mary and two screwdrivers. We were at the Gibson, which is really a lovely bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A billion people came. All of the leads were there and almost all of the rest of the cast were there as ...
This is a cheap LED light-ring
and I'm thinking that for $58 you can't do that badly. Mitchell send me a link to it. If you're shooting stuff for EBay, etc., it would seem like a pretty good deal to have one.You're stuck shooting closeups of whatever you're shooting, but you should be able to actually ...
Look, I’m not the only one to rip off Video Copilot
No, here's a teaser for an unmade "steampunk" picture (via SF Signal) called The Marionette Unit.The Marionette Unit - Inception Trailer from Fun Size Studios on Vimeo. The title treatment? Same background that Clonehunter has. Video Copilot shows you how.
So, of course
after we delivered the final movie to the lab we discovered two devastating problems with the picture. Ugh. Two composites which three QC checks hadn't brought up. And they were ugly too. In one, a portion of the background in a bluescreen shot simply disappears, and in another the garbage ...
Another Monday
I delivered the master of Clonehunter to the lab today. I hope there aren't any problems with it. That always makes me very nervous.*******I finally got a computer to make DVDs. I don't even remember what I did but it involved AfterEffects, some mpeg 2 files, a shotgun, and a ...
What Am I Really Doing?
Tomorrow I deliver Clonehunter to the lab.I'm also up to page... 36? on Day 2.I am fighting the computer gods and trying to make a DVD. Seriously, my studio can't make a bloody DVD. We have what... upwards of six computers and none of them can reliably burn a DVD? ...