It's the end of the day, I'm sitting in the airport and freshmen year is coming to a close. It's that time of day where everything is perfect, the light shooting across the floor, clouds scattering the sky, and-- wow is that guy actually walking like that? The airport is never short of unstable 40-year-old drug addicted men. This is what happens when you leave the bubble that is a college campus. At this point, one might be tempted to make a joke stating how the only difference between being on campus and off campus is the age of the drug addicted individual, but I would rather focus on what is to come.
Right now, my only solid plan for the summer is to return to TIC summer camp for the fourth time to teach video production. Much of the summer will be spent doing research for the production company that I am trying to start. This means more trips to New York, film festival research, and production house research! Expect the next post to be the video of the concert that I shot.
Last week I got to do something that I've always wanted to do: shoot a concert. It was really spur of the moment, I came up with the whole camera setup the night before and then ran in with a Sony GL2 (a.k.a. a nice camera), my little camcorder, and two more camcorders that my friends brought. A four camera set up isn't bad, especially when I get to run around in front of the stage just shooting whomever I like. The concert itself was my friend Tonga's senior thesis for his major in music at Wheaton College. I hope the actual video was as good as the concert. As soon as this is edited I will post it. But for now, I'm sick!
The official intermission video for the Wheaton College Gentlemen Callers for their spring 2008 jam, brought to you by yours truely:
Monday, April 7, 2008
Politics.
Here's a video I created for a candidate running for SGA President at Wheaton College (enjoy!):
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Excitement for the Future
Now that Home is Nowhere is finished there is a lot of projects that I am quite excited about that I am going to be turning out. Before I talk about the future, I quickly want to talk about the feedback regarding Home is Nowhere.
Overall the response to the film has been quite positive and I just wanted to take some time to post some of my favorite comments:
"Well done, I rather enjoyed it. For some reason, I really liked the suitcase full of water bottles. Also, abandoned/rotting locations are beautiful. And I'm now tempted to try my hand at a car chase."
"The driver is the best actor of the lot, methinks; he's like a cross between Lukas Haas and Eric Balfour. Was the guy who ran wearing a wig, or does he just have weird-ass hair?"
"And yes, cool short... I like the scene on the sidewalk. It reminded me of Midnight Cowboy, complete with Ratso Rizzo cough."
"The stories good, it's straightforward, but it also makes me think. You know what I'm talking about?"
Now, I've never seen Midnight Cowboy, but it seems like I should go and pick it up. I think that Home is Nowhere will be the first film that I try to get in some major festivals. But that's enough of that, I want to address the future.
I feel like it's time I graduated to buying myself a new camera, and the approach will be that this will be an investment into Lonely Tree Films. A production company that Timothy Adams and I have started. So far our only two films are The Gym and Home is Nowhere. But this summer we are changing that. We are turning out three different films, two shorts, and one experimental short. Personally I am very excited for the experimental shorts, I recently aquired Adobe After Effects and I am dying to play with this. So, I am thinking that we will set up a green-screen stage in my basement and see how it goes.
Speaking of my basement. A while ago I posted a photo from a film called That Color Red. It was probably one of the biggest productions I ever attempted; we built a soundstage in my basement, we rented equipment, etc. Unfortunately the size of the production was the issue, it was too much for me to take on at the time and the entire thing fell through. We only shot 4 scenes. My next plan is to edit together those 4 scenes and present them on a page dedicated to That Color Red. So look for that in the next month. Until then, I bid you all ado.
