Madman's Mutterings

Hello again! I’ve been so busy these past few weeks that I’ve completely neglected to get back here to spread the good word! Normally, I’d try to split these subjects into their own posts, but who has the time? Not me, that’s for sure!
First of all, we got the results from the Miami 48-Hour Film [...]

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It’s not like anything else, I can tell you that. I’ve been on deadline for magazines before, for writing assignments, for art submissions, but to write, produce, direct, edit and score a film in 48 hours is a bit beyond the pale.
It started in Miami at 7PM on Friday, August 6th. The Miami 48-Hour Film [...]

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I have these strange feelings of inadequacy when it comes to filmmaking. I keep looking at college programs, dreaming of attending lectures by profound and Yoda-like cinematographers, of riding in one of those elevated crane rigs to get that oh-so-epic shot, of sitting huddled in a tent with my Assistant Director and a crew of [...]

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It happened in the span of two days. Six people, all of them unrelated, all of them from different parts of the world. Each of them individually sent me a message or left a comment asking me to write something. To update the blog. And while I normally observe a policy of “don’t write unless [...]

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On the other hand, if you think I came half-way around the world to curl up into fetal position and cry myself to sleep, you’ve got another think coming.
It was important to look the realities of the situation and visualize the prospects of failure. That being said, I didn’t come here to fail. I came [...]

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