KERBEROS - Hell Continues into 2009!
Been awhile.. and I still haven't finished filming. End of the year so production will spill into 2009.
Still, I've been working. The edit of all filmed scenes is done, have filmed a couple new scenes, put together a new crew for the final week of shooting coming up. Have worked out a half dozen different title sequences and finally settled on one that I am excited about. Also filmed and co-directed a music video for Speech, the lead singer of Arrested Development. I was brought into that project by my friend Future - very talented and very experienced at music videos, especially of this nature. So, certainly got to contribute as director and DP, and learn at the same time. Am excited to see what Future does with the edit so I can then add another layer of effects and color grading over it.
Since the American Film Market in November, my hands have been full fielding offers on my first film, BLOOD TIES, as well as both interest and offers for KERBEROS. Of course making a film is one thing, and selling it an entirely different endeavor. We are pretty well settled on a couple different options, and trying to determine not only which is best for each of these films, but what strategically helps my future films and my career. Lots of factors to take in, best guesses to make, and mistakes to be made and then made up for.
No matter which we end up going, I am spending time upgrading and finalizing trailers, the website (new version up soon), sell sheets and posters. A lot of work, not only for the designs and presentation to be worked out, but the sheer amount of information and files accessed to create the trailers. Even my Photoshop files for the posters are nearing 600 to 700 MB, so files move slowly.
In couple days, I get to help my friend Rob Pralgo by directing a scene on his Zombie movie, Zombie Invasion. Maybe I'll get bit... by the bug to make a horror film, or at least a Zombie flick! Already got the itch to make a couple music videos, and am planning on shooting at least two this spring for Katy J, the singer/song writer who is contributing so much to KERBEROS. If things go right, I'll then get to Brazil in late spring to write and direct another for my friend and her fabulous voice, Adriana Mezzadri.
Maybe the hardest part for most people in making a movie, at least at this level of very limited budgets, is the perseverance to finish it, to push through the set backs that are inevitable on any project that relies on so many other people's time and talents. Much of the glamour that is supposed by the world's perception of the life of a filmmaker, is spent in long hours alone; thinking, creating, struggling for meaning of images and words, and the joy - in these days of digital creation - of long, almost crippling hours in front of a computer. Whatever else gets said about me, no one will ever accuse me of giving in or giving up. I am really proud of the work everyone has done on it, and my ability to 'direct' them into something that will surprise a lot of people, even me sometimes!
So, a couple big holidays and a couple weeks away from bringing back my friend Tony Mennaci (Stan Harrington) from LA, so I can create some more cinematic violence and emotion...
For our latest short piece of action, check out jail flashback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4giPDf8oc
Don't forget to vote or comment if you are logged in, and of course if you like it, pass it on.
Still, I've been working. The edit of all filmed scenes is done, have filmed a couple new scenes, put together a new crew for the final week of shooting coming up. Have worked out a half dozen different title sequences and finally settled on one that I am excited about. Also filmed and co-directed a music video for Speech, the lead singer of Arrested Development. I was brought into that project by my friend Future - very talented and very experienced at music videos, especially of this nature. So, certainly got to contribute as director and DP, and learn at the same time. Am excited to see what Future does with the edit so I can then add another layer of effects and color grading over it.
Since the American Film Market in November, my hands have been full fielding offers on my first film, BLOOD TIES, as well as both interest and offers for KERBEROS. Of course making a film is one thing, and selling it an entirely different endeavor. We are pretty well settled on a couple different options, and trying to determine not only which is best for each of these films, but what strategically helps my future films and my career. Lots of factors to take in, best guesses to make, and mistakes to be made and then made up for.
No matter which we end up going, I am spending time upgrading and finalizing trailers, the website (new version up soon), sell sheets and posters. A lot of work, not only for the designs and presentation to be worked out, but the sheer amount of information and files accessed to create the trailers. Even my Photoshop files for the posters are nearing 600 to 700 MB, so files move slowly.
In couple days, I get to help my friend Rob Pralgo by directing a scene on his Zombie movie, Zombie Invasion. Maybe I'll get bit... by the bug to make a horror film, or at least a Zombie flick! Already got the itch to make a couple music videos, and am planning on shooting at least two this spring for Katy J, the singer/song writer who is contributing so much to KERBEROS. If things go right, I'll then get to Brazil in late spring to write and direct another for my friend and her fabulous voice, Adriana Mezzadri.
Maybe the hardest part for most people in making a movie, at least at this level of very limited budgets, is the perseverance to finish it, to push through the set backs that are inevitable on any project that relies on so many other people's time and talents. Much of the glamour that is supposed by the world's perception of the life of a filmmaker, is spent in long hours alone; thinking, creating, struggling for meaning of images and words, and the joy - in these days of digital creation - of long, almost crippling hours in front of a computer. Whatever else gets said about me, no one will ever accuse me of giving in or giving up. I am really proud of the work everyone has done on it, and my ability to 'direct' them into something that will surprise a lot of people, even me sometimes!
So, a couple big holidays and a couple weeks away from bringing back my friend Tony Mennaci (Stan Harrington) from LA, so I can create some more cinematic violence and emotion...
For our latest short piece of action, check out jail flashback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4giPDf8oc
Don't forget to vote or comment if you are logged in, and of course if you like it, pass it on.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
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