NAB 2012 – Filling The Vacuum
It’s been two years since I last attended the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) – a two-year period in which much of production has undergone some serious seismic shifts. NAB is the giant trade convention in Las Vegas where just about anyone who sells a good or service tied to the film, TV, Radio, [...]
Priced to Rent
Masters of our Domains I’m happy to admit it – Filmmakers today should all feel like a bunch of spoiled carping jerks. Some three and a half years ago, Canon (not a company previously renowned for their professional-level HD cameras) blew the lid off the world of filmmaking with the Canon 5D Mark II and [...]
Ego Check
The Worst News You’ll Ever Exhaustively Seek Out One thing they can’t teach you in film school (or art school or writing school or whatever school) is how to take a review. There’s an actual skill to it, even if the review is positive or… I’m tempted to say “bad .” But the use of [...]
The Accidental Shakespearian
My apologies in advance, as this is some self-serving BS I’m about to serve: Comedy, Tragedy, and Chainsaws… I’ve often claimed two competing kinds of geekery – theater and horror. If I had to tell anyone which one started first or took a deeper hold, I really couldn’t. As long as I had a personality [...]
A Tale of Four Possums… Or the End of Creative Procrastination
Sorry, I’m not going to rant about Final Cut Pro X or directing theater today – I have something more philosophical on my mind and it was all inspired by true events. Warning: graphic wildlife-in-domestic-homes pictures to follow. Playing Possum Nothing helps me to shake of the shackles of procrastination like a live possum in [...]
Editing for Dummies
The Morning After… After over a decade as a happy Final Cut Pro user, proponent, and propagandist, it’s been a terrible two weeks for me. When George Rizkallah and I went in on our first FCP v.2 system from Promax back in 2000, little did I know how accessible editing would grow to change my [...]
Putting the “F” into FCP
Confessions of a Final Cut Pro Apologist At 5:30 am this past Tuesday, Apple blew the minds of editors around the world. And not in a good way. Final Cut Pro, the professional nonlinear editing (NLE) suite released by Apple over a decade ago, never had it easy. When it first appeared on the scene, [...]
Summer Reading
10 Blogs Filmmakers Need to Read As I emerge from my NDA-driven rathole and rediscover the things I did before work consumed me, I’ve been catching up on some reading. Specifically blog reading (and a book or two as well). My friend Jenelle likes to make fun of me for being late to the Blog [...]
Fiction Abuse
Warning: Shameless Self-Promotion Ahead… Yes, yes. I know. It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been working more than usual, and I haven’t had the blogging time I would prefer. I take that back – I’d rather be working. But I could take more time to do this as well. I promise to [...]
