I’m taking weekend classes this month on film production. This weekend was all about scriptwriting. I had a good time, though have kind of mixed feelings about what I learned. As part of the class, we had a short time to write a script. I put together the...
I love getting out the camera and experimenting with stuff. Today: what’s the effect on depth-of-field and apparent closeness of changing the focal length of the lens? There’s strong implications on filming here. First off, on apparent closeness....
Can’t believe I haven’t added this here. Anyway, this is a couple months old now, but back in November I participated in the National Film Challenge. In this, we made a movie in three days, including writing the script, doing all the filming, and doing...
I am proud to announce that here is the first movie by Crimes of the Art Productions. It’s called “Shutdown,” and it’s my satirical take on recent political events. It stars Donald R. Cook and Caitlin Williams. Amy Davis directed and...
As I mentioned, I’ve started working on some video projects. In preparing for this, I’ve read a lot of books lately about all aspects of making movies. Here’s a special edition of What I’ve Been Reading that covers those books. I...
My latest obsession these past few months has been making movies. It really started when I took the summer of 2011 off from work, in what I called my pretirement summer. Among the things that I did that summer was to get heavily into photography. I learned a lot,...
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