the treatment, on kcrw

for those of you who don’t live in LA, or do but don’t know, check out the show The Treatment on the radio at kcrw, 89.9, or online as podcasts here. film critic elvis mitchell interview filmmakers, including recent guests brad bird, danny boyle, judd apatow, robert rodriguez, etc. and best of all, it’s free!

frame by frame

there are a couple of shots where the boom mic dips into frame. to fix that, i’ve been exporting the frames as an image sequence and then fixing them frame by frame in photoshop. when you first import a frame in photoshop, the aspect ratio is off. it looks like this, at 1280 x 1080….

2 weeks left to edit

i have 5 scenes in my movie. 3 scenes are fully edited, 1 scene just needs some tweaking, and 1 scene is still pretty rough. once i finish the cut, there’s still a lot of work left to do. my life is consumed by never ending to do lists, so here’s another one.

editing blues

after the initial joy of having finished production wore off, i was in a state of depression while editing. i always go through it, where all i see are the mistakes. i actually yell at my monitor, like how people yell at the tv when they watch sports. i’ll say, why are you out of…

rough cut

it’s been just over a week since i finished shooting my movie, and i have a rough cut done. i have to refine it and lock the picture by next week, and then i have to hand it over to the sound mixer who will be doing the audio mixing for the dialogue. that will…

screenplay finalist!

the short horror script i wrote a couple months ago, “Camera Obscura”, has been selected as one of the finalists in the dc shorts screenplay competition. all of the finalists will have staged readings of their scripts, and based on the scores from the judges and the audience, the winner will be selected. the prize…