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Last week I finished shooting my first feature length film. My role in the project was Director of Photography, but I was essentially the DP, the Gaffer, the Key Grip and G&E. The name of the film is “Hunt the Maguffin” which was Written and Directed by Luke Federoff. It was a very low budget film [...]

Get a good producer. Confidential to the film student who doesn’t feel like reading this whole post: I ask you at least take this lesson to heart- NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A LOADED GUN ON SET JUST BECAUSE THOSE KEWL GUYS IN NEW YORK DID IT. Get a good producer. Just do it. I know [...]

2/10/12 If you haven’t read anything else about it yet, Leprechauns & Lies is our latest produced project, and first official run at a live show for the superfreakos. This is a passion project for Chad- something he’s been working on for 20 years and with the encouragement of his incredible acting teacher Gary Imhoff, [...]

This Sunday I had an opportunity to shoot a little behind the scenes footage on a music video for Lior Molcho. Lior is a very talented director and VFX artist who directed two music videos for our mutual friend Kyle Puccia. The first video, ‘Message’, was shot just before I shot my first music video [...]

Yesterday I completed a project for a client that was basically a series of hand drawn images on a sketch pad. The final product would be a stop-motion video that would watch the arm of the illustrator as he draws a series of text and pictures. It would start with the full sketch pad in [...]

Project Management A huge piece of producing, especially independent producing, is seeing a project through the process from points A to Z in as efficient a manner as possible. This can be a challenge when you’re working on a project in a medium you’ve never used before such as, oh I don’t know, animation? And [...]

My friend Keith Turner (no relation to Ike) recently forwarded this video and KickStarter link to me.  It is a cool little gadget designed by an MIT graduate and fellow filmmaker.  It’s actually hard for me to call this a KickStarter Campaign because the rewards that backers get are actually far cheaper than buying anything [...]

After my 6th 48 hour film competition I swore to myself that I would never subject myself to that kind of abuse again.  If you have never been involved in one of these, the only thing that can I equate it to would be, being the 1 surviving character in a horror movie.  You are [...]