Two Weeks Trying Final Cut X
For the past two weeks I have been trying out Final Cut X. I decided to try FCP X as an experiment, when director friend of mine asked me to edit shot on the RED Epic. He’s been using FCP X, because he has a newer macs that can’t run the older version of Final ...
Something Startling Happens – Story Minute by Minute
I despise most screenwriting books. I find most give tired cliched advice that is easy to dismiss with a response of “well duh” or is too vague to apply. The actual process isn’t explained and instead a critique of the final product is given. It’s great to describe what a good script looks like, but ...
Best Underrated Films of 2012
I’d intended to do a post about just the best films of 2012 after the new year, but editing work and a short film project got the better of me. It wasn’t until I saw the Oscar 2013 Snubbed Tribute below that I started thinking about how many of my favorite films this year didn’t ...
THR Award Season Roundtables 2012
The Hollywood Reporter has released their award season roundtables – a series of conversations with top writers, directors, and actors in consideration for the upcoming Oscar season. Below is the Directors Roundtable: A couple moments that stood out to me: Ben Affleck talks about having an “ah-ha” moment when Gus Van Sant asked him what ...
How Comic Books Made Me A Great Filmmaker
In honor the Alternative Press Expo Comic Book Convention this weekend in San Francisco I wanted to write about one of my early visual inspirations – comic books. Before film, my first love was comics. When I was four, my dad taught me to read using his collection of Spider-man comics that he started collecting ...
The Tools Don’t Make the Film
My friend Jan Becker just wrote an article about the obsession with the latest digital cameras: The tools don’t make you a filmmaker. Making a movie doesn’t even depend on which camera you use – you use what you can afford. That’s why RED has so many fanboys: They based their whole marketing on the ...
Daym – Viral Videos From Viral Videos
My friend John Johnson of Darkstone Entertainment made an awesome viral video praising cheeseburgers through the music of Schmoyoho. This is a couple internet layers deep. First, Daym Drops a fast food reviewer on youtube released a five guys review that went viral. Then Schmoyoho – the channel behind auto-tune the news and songify, which ...
Hilarious Movie Reviews by The Last Psychiatrist
This article – Wanted, Starring Angelina Jolie, is the Greatest Movie of Our Generation – remains one of the funniest and most insightful pieces of film criticism I’ve ever read. First line of the article: And if you dispute that, I am coming over to your house, pants down and guns blazing. It just gets ...
“Our Blades Are F**king Great”
I saw this video in several of my friend’s facebook feeds. Why would an ad for razor subscription service be something people in their twenties would forward to one another? Oh right, because it’s f**king hilarious. See for yourself: The video is simple – one warehouse location, primarily one actor, a few interesting props, ...
How to Save Bad Performances
When I was in film school, I developed a reputation for being able to fix bad performances. Since then, I’ve been brought on to more than one film that wasn’t working to re-edit it and make it watchable. A lot of that work hasn’t made my portfolio, because the final film was only good, not ...
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