The Boxing Lesson Music Video

I had an awesome experience this past Friday night. My buddy, Victor, was shooting a music video for a local band, The Boxing Lesson. The shoot was taking place at an old cemetery on the east side of Austin from 7PM to the wee hours of the morning. Vic had invited me to come check it out and possibly lend a hand when needed. I was about to tell him No, when he mentioned the video was going to be all stop motion! YES! Stop motion is something I’m really interested in and have dabbed in a tiny bit. Plus, Victor is a bad ass with his camera. Seriously, this guy is an arteest. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to look over Vic’s shoulder while he worked. I ended up going and watching for awhile. After it got dark, I ended up helping with lighting some grave scenes. The whole thing ended up being really cool. I was able to share some ideas I had on scenes with Victor. He being the cool guy he is would listen with open ears.

Awesome Night with a badass photographer.

Go check out Victor’s Rockpark site for some of his work. The Italy travel album is full of some great pictures.

Here are some pictures taken by me. They are pretty bad as I suck at taking pictures.

Pictures from the Socially set

I haven’t spent too much time on the blog talking about the short film I directed. It has come and gone so I won’t talk about it now. I do want to share some pictures from the set.

Enjoy.

G.I. Joe The Movie

AHHHHHHH!!! I’m so excited! I can’t stop creaming my shorts. Oh my god I wish it would stop gushing out, but it feels so gooood. I feel like a girl waiting to get into a Hannah Montana show.

Mindblowing

Mindblowing! That’s my new thing. We watched a documentary at SXSW called ‘Shot in Bombay‘. The jist about it, is it follows the making of a Bollywood movie with a bunch of other crap going on. Doesn’t make sense? Perfect, it’s like you have already seen it. The best thing about the movie was the director of the film, not the documentary. Every time he yelled cut he would follow it up with “Mindblowing!” or “Mindblasting”. I can’t wait to direct again because I have adopted this as my new “thing”. Cut. Mindblowing.

Moving on. I took some footage from the Socially short and put together a quick edit. I posted it on YouTube for everyones viewing pleasure. Take in mind that no color correction has been done. So things a little dark and what not.

Have a great day! I should be picking up my new (to me) dirt bike tomorrow. I will post some pictures when I get them.

Mindblowing.

Socially

So for the time being I have given up on producing the SNAFU script. In turn I am directing Socially, the script Andrea wrote for Kat Candler’s From Script to Screen workshop. I thought not producing my own script would take some of the stress away. Boy, was I wrong! This past weekend marked the beginning of shooting and it went good, I think. Directing felt like a natural thing for me. Problem is, I let stress kind of blind me the first time doing something like this. So it ends up taking away from the experience. After this wraps I will start studying up a little more on the art of direction and maybe get my own style going on.