March 2009

Something that’s been occupying my time lately is an amazing Swedish film called “Let the Right One In”. If you haven’t seen it or heard about it check out the trailer at the end of this post. It’s a film about a 12 year old boy who is picked on at school and has no [...]

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 [...]

What to expect: First, call and tell them what kind of project you are doing and they will forward you the correct agent. Then, they will ask you for lots of personal information including address, phone numbers, email address, and who this policy should be written under. This information is for the policy application, essentially, [...]

First, let’s go over some of the terms you’re going to hear when talking on the phone with an agent. It’s a good idea to get familiar with these terms because they’ll throw them around pretty fast. The types of insurance coverage you’ll be looking at are: Annual DICE (Documentary, Industrial, Commercial, & Educational) – [...]

I’ve written the next section on obtaining insurance as an independent filmmaker, but I’ve encountered some blog formatting issues. I’ll spend some time tonight and tomorrow on it and hope to have the post up as late as Friday.