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At last I can finally announce my good news. If you’re a friend on my Facebook account or if you follow my Twitter feed you’ve already seen this. The Scorpion & The Frog, a film I directed this past February, is an official selection of the Chicago Filipino American Film Festival! If you’re in the [...]

Just got a sample of the music for The Scorpion and the Frog, a short film I directed in February. The composer is Daniel Vendt based out in L.A. and all I can say is that it’s amazing. I love it. But it’s not the final version yet. We still have to do some tweaking [...]

Some good news. I just heard from the composer that the music is going well for the short film The Scorpion and the Frog. Might be another week or two before it’s finished. I’ve been slacking on the sound sweetening due to other things like the mystery project, but I’m tweaking the audio now, hoping [...]

Sorry for the delay. Quick update. We reshot a quick scene this weekend with Aimee. Everything went great and the shot looks wonderful. Above is a picture from the tail end of the shot. I built the poor man’s steadycam and it work perfectly for what we needed. It was a little difficult to handle [...]

Ahhh yes. The cheapest Steadicam in the world (or should that be called the cheapest Steadycam?) I managed to follow the instructions well enough. The real problem was the drilling, but it turned out great! I can’t believe I’m geeking out over something so small, but I can’t stop smiling. The strange things I’ll go [...]

A lot of things going on these past few days. For The Scorpion and the Frog, we’ve decided to reshoot one of the hand held shots of Sarah walking down the street. The original footage is just way too shaky. It’s effective, but too shaky. This is a shot I came up with on the [...]

Bah. Blogging is tougher than I thought. Hard to keep posting when the only “exciting” things I do are business plan stuff and meetings. Think I’m going to start including articles on filmmaking and the few movies and books I’ve read. In ScorpFrog news, things are good. Giau says he’s color corrected the first scene [...]

Ah, once again, another meeting for the mystery project. I’ve gotten some great news, but because it’s all hush hush, I can’t say anything at the moment. The business plan is coming along nicely and we’re about to work on the PPM. (If you know what a PPM is, then you’ll have a good idea [...]

Hoping to get all the footage color corrected today. Going to bring out the nice, lush color Adri the Art Director, put into the scene. Until then, here are more photos to tide you over: Oooo, this would be a fun poster or DVD cover.   Mike Simmer in costume and 40s make up.   [...]

Now we enter all the footage into the computer and sort, sort, sort. Things are looking good so far. I might even be able to have a rough cut together in two weeks. I’ve been talking with the composer about the mood and tone of the piece and it looks like we’re off to a [...]