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Encouraging Words from John August
I happened to shoot an email to “Big Fish” screenwriter John August’s website last week regarding my recent obsession with machinima. To my surprise, he responded on his blog. You can read his post by clicking here. The replies contained many interesting links to great machinima work. My favorite was the one below. I only watched about [...]
Continue reading...Witness For The Prosecution
5. August 2010
Hulu’s putting up some pretty cool movies this summer! One gem you don’t wanna miss– if you’re in to old films–is Billy Wilder’s underseen Witness for the Prosecution. Marlene Deitrich. Charles Laughton. Tyrone Power. Agatha Christie. Billy Wilder. Movies don’t get any better than this. Particularly awesome is the screenplay (as [...]
Continue reading...Filmmaking Via Click-Click-Click
3. August 2010
About a year ago, I discovered a neat little site called xtranormal that allows you to make movies just by typing words and dragging icons into a little box. I was addicted to it for a couple days, then realized all you could do with it is make cartoons of people talking. It [...]
Continue reading...For All Mankind
23. July 2010
You need to watch this film. It’s called “For All Mankind,” and it’s a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking. It’s also an exhilarating retelling of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The film is constructed from about 6 million feet of footage (I took that from wikipedia, who said it was quoting the DVD commentary) filmed by NASA and [...]
Continue reading...The Outline
22. July 2010
In my last post, I updated you on the progress of my documentary “Razorwire,” which was recently pulled from “pipe dream” status back into “hopefully I can get this done before I retire” status. I’ve been reading through the transcript of the Me/Chadwick interview (this interview forms the narrative spine [...]
Continue reading...GO!
20. June 2010
Way, way, way back, I started blogging to keep you all posted on a documentary film that I’ve been directing in my spare time since… forever. It’s called Razorwire. Some of you may remember that. The film’s been on hiatus for over a year. A LOT has happened during that time. I’ve started and finished a [...]
Continue reading...Because God Can
17. November 2009
Below is a new short, a documentary I cut last week for Canyon Ridge Baptist Church’s seventh anniversary. I got tired of making the same church video over and over again… so I decided to cut out all the music and all the interviews! Since this film is way outside the norm for me, I’d love [...]
Continue reading...Sea Of Change
5. November 2009
Two things: 1) I got a full-time job. I am quitting two of my other jobs, and then focusing on work, church, and Razorwire. This happened REALLY fast, and I’ll be kind of working all four jobs for the next two weeks, but God is good and I am really excited. 2) It looks like Canyon Ridge [...]
Continue reading...Nice Knowing You
28. October 2009
I’ve discovered Xtranormal. Dear me, this is the end. Xtranormal’s a site where you can do everything that I’ve ever dreamed of doing–quickly, easily, poorly, and entertainingly. It’s like QuickBASIC for filmmakers. It makes movies. All you do is type and click, and it makes you a movie. Here’s how it works: you log in. You pick “actors,” these [...]
Continue reading...Leverage
20. October 2009
Hello again! First off, lemme give a real quick thank you to you guys for supporting The Shrub Whisperer. You guys rock! Interestingly enough, a week before The Shrub Whisperer was filmed, actor Jeff McGullion starred in my friend’s first “experimental” feature film Leverage. The film’s director, Doug Winningham, just released the film on youtube, and it’s [...]
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8. August 2010
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