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"

commercial

hey all (slash josh)

finished the commercial

view it here


love peace patience

the death of a good friend

Long story short..... i was in a boat and we were pushing out of the dock. i leaned to push and the chair i was sitting on gave out on me and i fell right in the water... clothing, phone and all. i jumped out of the water faster than.. fast but unfortunatly it was already to late. my phone was dead :(

i tried many things to revive him but it didnt work.



it sucks. i have never had a phone in water before and of course the time it happens its with my good friend iphone.

i donno. its just a possession i guess so its not that big of a deal but man.... ive been having terrible nightmares of the accident ever since!!

Second B - almost half way done

Mustachio Bashio

So this month, some of the guys at school thought it would be a good idea to grow mustaches for the month of July.

The rules were the following:

Grow a mustache

Dont Cut It/trim it/shave it


I made it about 23 days and i finally shaved.

what i learned during my process?

i cannot grow a mustache..

disappointing? yes. i was really looking forward to rocking a nice solid stache for a while.

more to come. peace

At The Drive In

Tonight i went to the drive in theater for the first time!

Let me tell you it was quite the experience. I saw the Dark Knight and it was dirt cheap.
4 dollars for a double feature {Dark Knight and Hancock}

although we didnt stay for hancock, it was still quite enjoyable.

It was fun sitting on top of the car under the cool nights' sky with the smell of fresh movie popcorn in the air.

i would recommend the drive in.

Florida... you and your heat!!!

SERIOUSLY!?!

Film. plus or minus??

I decided it has been a long time since i shot on film. i thought i would take this vintage nikon f and put it to the test.

this camera is all metal, completely manual, including the film advance lever. the light meter is hardly a meter. it has a needle that bounces from over exposed to under and a prime 1.4 lens. but the truth is i love it.

i just got my photos developed and after eager anticipation. they turned out sour. 1 roll was completely ruined. and the other is obviously my first roll on film in a while.

so.

film is tough
film is raw

good or bad?




this was a photo shot before i got the light meter working. i metered with a digital camera and then tweaked from there.
what do you think?

Commercial

We shot a commercial, finally after a ridiculous amount of confusion and rejection.

here are a few shots from the commercial. i think it came out pretty good.

production

Twilight Zone came and went.

all that preproduction; hours of planning lighting schemes and shot lists, waking up at 4 am with an idea, stressing about locations. over

i want more. production went well, or well enough for a "first time" doing a production. Things were learned and i want to do it again.

12 hours overnight seemed like nothing.

i will post some production stills soon.

{ciao}

Twilight Zone

So i havnt posted anything for a long time either. I am in Digital Cinematography and Directing this month. For our DC project we are to shoot a Twilight Zone episode.

Here is the first page of our script. I am directing scene 1.

there will be more from the Twilight Zone to be posted soon.

let me just say pre-production is a bia...

Fighting Silence

Final project for Lighting.

click............HERE

product lighting

these are a few shots from my product in its environment shoot.

i guess i was going for kind of a print ad in a magazine or something.

these are a few of em


wide shot- also had a soft light on this one in addition to the other lights which is why its brighter


behind the scenes of the shoot
in the "bar" of the candyland (the soundstage)
using a baby 1k with a 4x4 silk mounted in front
practical lamp on dimmer behind the couch
in betweenie light with reflector board for fill
and soft light aswell


99 bananas

dont especially care for it. bad shadows.


doesnt make sense
do you know why?









i got to have some words with one of my lighting instructors about my shots. Ralph happens to be a fashion photographer that has worked in japan, europe and miami.
He criticized my shots and tore me down.
in a good way of course. i was more than appreciative for his advice. he brought up good points. it was great getting his professional advice. i am going to try to take advantage of his experience and hopefully learn alot from him

but i would also like your comments, opinions, advice, criticism

for real, be honest. i know i am not a professional and i never will be if i dont learn as much as i can from everybody and accept peoples criticism so..

until later
-lance-

inhale

so upon shooting this i didnt think about using it for the off camera flash assignment. but i will go ahead and officially submit it on fact that i didnt shoot anything else.

well here it is



[50mm 1/20 sec f/7.1 ISO 1600]

beach in february!! (pics coming soon)

This weekend past was one of the most fun that i have had since being down here. We had the weekend off from class which was awesome. it always feels good to get a wee break from class. so what did we do you ask. WENT TO THE BEACH!!

Friday we headed out to cocoa for some fun in the sun!


we hung out there all day surfing (or trying to), skim boarding, playing football, soccer, Frisbee on the beach, flipping off the little ledge.

it was some good ol fun.

then saturday we had to keep up the momentum,

so we hit the lake with the boat. did some wakeskating and such. after we depleted the sunshine we grilled some burgers and dogs in the backyard and relaxed.

but we werent done yet!!

we then headed over to Sun Key to play some late night sand volleyball (which i havnt played since the termination of VBS)
needless to say. my team got rocked. i dont know what was going on but we just couldnt pull it together.

oh well. next time!!

so by the time sunday came around i was SO tired. my body was sore and ached in every area. i am not used to this much physical activity. but it felt good. i really enjoyed being out in the sun and doing physical activites with some friends.. good times.

rocky mountain beefy baby triple riser

This month i started my beginning lighting class. I LOVE IT. i finally feel like i am in film school. we get to play with the lights all day and set up cool scenes. there is so much to learn about lighting. its funny because everything in lighting is code. like they have code names for everything, and they are the most ridiculous names around.

here are some pics from my labs so far.



behind the scenes shot of one of our three point lighting shoots.



one of our shots



another shot taken in the bar. we had the light coming through the window with the blinds. we used a alot of contrast. like a 16:1.

so thats what ive been doing. I have another lighting lab here in a few hours so i will be learning so more.
peace

shoot me

self explanatory. on that note. im going to bed...

intro to lighting

behind the scenes at "candyland"



more on this topic at a later time.

enjoy