film festival submissions

i sent off my submission to slamdance yesterday. so far i’ve only submitted to sundance and slamdance. i’m also considering submitting to these festivals which all have submission deadlines before the end of the year : clermont ferrand, sxsw, tribeca, hbo comedy festival. there are other festivals that have later deadlines sometime in 2007 :…

short film budget so far

i’m not going to disclose how much the actual dollar amount of my budget was, but i spent 70% of my budget to shoot it. i’m pretty happy with that, because that leaves me with 30% for post production and marketing. POST PRODUCTION – i’m editing it myself so that’s free. – my friend might…

storyboards vs shot list

so looking over my footage, i realized i missed some shots. i should have had a more detailed shot list. i made one for some of the scenes, but not all of them. my teacher at the usc directing intensive class said he never storyboards, and said a shot list is much more important. i…

floorplans

a student from chaminade offered to help me with production (actually, that’s the only reason why they’re letting me shoot there), but it turns out she’s going to be out of town during the actual shoot.  i asked if she’d like to help with some preproduction, and asked her if she could draw floorplans for…

shooting schedule

i’m shooting on 2 days, saturday 7/29 and sunday 7/30.  the first day will be at the warehouse, and it’ll be much harder than the second day at the school.  i have more script pages to shoot at the warehouse, and there’s all the fight choreograpy to worry about. another constraint is that the warehouse…

my animation

here’s my first ever flash animation i made back in the day using flash 3. i want to remake this as a live action short using green screen and 3d animation. i’ve also been thinking of ways of making this into an animated series. my friend works at cartoon network as a character designer, so…

Atomfilms contract

Atomfilms Studio is funding my short film. I signed the contract and sent it back today. Basically, they give me a modest budget to make my short, and in exchange, they get nonexclusive internet rights and nonexclusive mobile rights for a year. I keep the copyright, I can submit to film festivals, I keep dvd…