ITS A WRAP!!

Today marks the completion of my first debut as a director.

It is a short written and directed by yours truely about a man remembering his untamed childhood imagination.

It has been a stressful, time consuming, wild ride but it has been good.

The first night of shooting went awesome. We basically had everything we had hoped/planned on and it went like butter. The footage turned out pretty nice too i think.

The second shoot was a little rockier but having improvised the entire second that of shooting the day of shooting, id say it turned out alright.

And today, the third and final day of the short time we had to shoot was STRESSFUL. All day from the moment i woke up i had been stressing like crazy. Are we gonna have all the props we need? are the people gonna turn up? will it come out decent enough to put my name on?

After some disappointment with rain, and not having a suitable backup plan i was through the roof. Then after getting hope by a larger soundstage opening up for us, a little hope was restored.

But then the weather cleared up.. a little!!

We scraped the soundstage idea and went back to plan B which was to shoot in the woods behind the backlot.

After 30 minutes of setting up the lighting was too bad and we had to go inside to plan A, which was actually plan B. We continued to set up and shoot inside. After about an hour of increasingly stressful situations we began to shoot.

I think we got everything we needed to shoot, given the circumstances.

Now i just have to edit and hope for the best!



Here are a few stills from the footage.








Keep posted for the full thing coming to a computer screen near you!

I WANNA GO

itchin for adventure

so i just watched "long way round." a mini series about ewan mcgregor and his mate charley boorman that decide to take a trip from london uk to new york city usa the long way around... meaning east through europe and russia to alaska and north america.

it was quite exciting and inspiring to watch. OH did i mention they did this on motorcycles!

through the rugged non existing roads of mongolia and eastern russia to the open highways for the U S of A.

it just makes me want to get out on the road and have an adventure.

it also reminds me of the good old trip we had from lincoln NE to Whistler British Columbia. That was a lot of fun.

I think that we should continue to do trips like these every few years where we can all come together where ever we are at in life and be able to have an adventure together.

i think we can take on the andes of south america. then the alps of europe and then the japan... who knows.

what do you all think?

does anyone still read or check this anymore?

if your are in say "ay" or "i" or "eye"