Thursday, June 2, 2016

Southern California Rail Road Museum Commercial

Orange Empire Railroad Museum  The commercial is here

UPDATED: Silver Award Winner

http://www.oerm.org
This place was so cool to shoot at. We got to play around and check out Trains and Trolleys.
Worked with David D., David H., and Robert P.

Here is a little news article the Museum wrote about us:



Wednesday, January 13, 2016

48 Hour Film Festival Team Odds and Evens in Las Vegas

I almost forgot about this adventure, happened way back in 2006.
I did the 48 Hour Film Festival with fellow filmmakers, Dave, Rich, Samson, Joel, me and what was his name? Jason? We woke up before dawn, brought a bunch of equipment up, stayed in a motel outside of North Las Vegas, and began.

We showed up to the contest and got the information we needed.
1) Genre: Thriller
2) Object: Hairspray
3) Line: "Looks like we'll have to do that over again"

Then we went out drinking and eating while we thought of a concept. There was tequila and Rich mentioned a werewolf idea. We shot it down and came up with a billion more ideas that just didn't work. Rich got sick went to bed as the rest of the team stayed up and tried to think of an idea. When Rich woke up, he mentioned the werewolf idea again and this time, we were all on board. Wasted a bunch of time that night.

The next morning by afternoon the script was developed, I went to pick up props and Joel did a time lapse of the sun as it moved across the desert sky. We started shooting that night through to the next day. The shooting went very well. We started to work on sound and editing through that night as well. The day crept up and our deadline was 5pm.

Once it was turned in we relaxed a bit and started to go out and see Vegas until the next morning. We all seemed a bit insane by this time. If you haven't counted that's 5 sunrises I saw without sleep. That went for most of the crew. We were crazy people. Well worth the experience.

The short was called Social Cravings.
"When your firends start going missing and you think you may be the reason"

A man (Rich) wakes up with dirt under his nails and sick. Thinking he's partied too hard and can't remember much.  His friend (Sam) shows up with a sandwich and asks if he saw Jack. Jack drinks Jack and last anyone heard he hung out last night with Rich, and there is a bottle of Jack on the counter but Rich doesn't remember. Sam goes to the bathroom and noticed strange items like lipstick and hairspray. Rich and Sam hang out until night falls, they are walking about and suddenly Rich starts "morphing" into a creature and goes after Sam. Next morning and not remembering much, he wakes up to a knock at his door. It's a girl asking if he has seen Sam. The next victim has arrived. End.