The Alex ad

About a month ago, Alex Bond, the son of a good friend, asked for some help making a video.  He was applying to a scholarship competition run by Dr Pepper and one of the requirements was to make a short video showing what he would do with the scholarship money.  The...

The Corey Mandell Professional Screenwriting Workshop

In June/July of this year, I took the Corey Mandell Professional Screenwriting Workshop. This was an online workshop for learning screenwriting skills. The class met for a three hour live online session once a week for eight weeks. It included weekly homework...

A new website

Welcome to the new Crimes of the Art website. This is now the online home for Crimes of the Art productions, which is the umbrella under which several of us are making movies. The goal of this project is education: we’ve got a long way to go to improve our...

A new movie

After all the fun I’ve had doing 48 Hour Film Festivals, I decided I really wanted to try doing one by myself.  Do the writing, the directing, the camera work, the sound, and even all the acting.  And by myself, of course I mean with Julie’s help. Looking...

Fighting with myself, or more experiments

I’m working on a video project that requires one actor to play multiple roles.  Those roles interact with each other, and there’s going to be times when we’re going to want multiple versions of the actor on screen at the same time. I’ve been...