Monday, August 12, 2013

"For The Greater Good" -a short dark comedy



"For The Greater Good"  


IMDB LINK
Portland Film Festival 
What a long break between filming jobs. No wonder I have been feeling so insane lately. This shoot was brought to me by the Erik Forssell. We shot on the Sony CineAlta. Nice fine little camera. I really love being able to go onto sets, even if it takes over my weekend. Obviously, I couldn’t do it all the time unless I quit my “day job”. I have come to realize that there are quite a bit of Orange County filmmakers I have been meeting and working with. Everyone heads up to LA to shoot. I wish I knew what to do with this knowledge, I would like to utilize it in some way to gather everyone up in OC and make something great like start our own studio and production house in OC. I have seen a lot more studios in OC, but I hardly see the amount of work flow run through them. But, the talent and hard work I have seen from some of the people who have worked with me seem like a different breed from what I have seen in the existing OC studios. I’ll just leave that alone for now… I do want to have some sort of OC film making contact circle where everyone can connect with.

Anyway…This shoot was a short dark comedy. It was for the most part an easy fun shoot all in one location. The room was glass all around which was difficult to shoot and worry about reflections. Erik did a great job. Great Crew I have worked with most of them before on "Mandoula".
  

Nice little update: the film has gotten into at least one film festival!!!


 

 

Friday, January 25, 2013

Sundance Utah trip 2013





Went to Sundance for the Premier of "Sound City" Documentary. Here is a link for the trailer: Sound City Trailer that my friend Hillary Hanak was the Gaffer on and was interviewed :  Hillary's interview and what a cute pic of her....and I sat in front of Stevie Nicks.
Next we went to the Sound City Players Concert with all the rock legends from the Documentary all wrote original new songs with Dave and played a handful of their old songs. Here this explains it better then I can, all I know was I was in heaven. Sound City Concert "Bucket list, check," said the Foo Fighters frontman of his all-star band, which included John Fogerty, Stevie Nicks, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk, among others. They went non-stop for 5 hours.
The next day we slept in (naturally) before we headed out to salt lake city. We saw the Shorts program (which included a short of "Whiplash" and Emanuel and the Truth about Fish" Very good movie. The next day we did some relaxing in a crater with hot mineral water...then saw the movie "Mud" Another great movie...does Sundance ever show duds?  Oh yes, we saw Crystal Fairy. Very inspiring to see all these great movies.
Ogden Forever!! LOL

 
Studio Pictures, Concert Pictures, Scenic by Clara Sedona