The function of a “One-Man-Band” (sometimes) has it’s benefits!
I just wrapped up a new project with recording artist John Garrett (front man for 24HR Watch). John made this project such a joy to work on - he was so awesome to work with, flexible, and was able to re-take a line near verbatim. But I don’t know that it would have gone down so easy if I was a bloated media company! (If you own a bloated media company - I’m kind of sorry, but not really!)
I received a call from John (who’s an old friend of mine - he was on a lighting crew that I was the LD for the ballet company.) We met there and then he started to attend the same church that I was very active at. When I received the call I could immediately scene the urgency in his voice asking if I’d be able to shoot his EPK, but it needed to be done - yesterday. I think that most clients face projects like this (in a crisis mode) but in John’s case - it really was a genuine deal. He’s needed to have one done, and a new opportunity opened and he needed it in hand ASAP!
Continue Reading ->
July 31st marked the day when Red came forward to announce that CS3 would have native R3D 4k support - two full months have come and gone, a new version of the Creative Suite began to ship and we have still yet to see this in action! What does this mean? We have to wait - will it ever happen? Eventually… Continue Reading ->
After my recent rant on Solid State Media altering the work flows and how we archive our footage from here till eternity I came across a post on Oliver Peters blog. I’m not going to shamelessly re:blog his very articulate post, but I really recommend that you check it out as it will cause some serious thought! He points out a few of the caveat’s that we as creators need to be aware of. He also points out 5 great tips that we should all be aware of as well…
Also, with drive space expanding and prices rapidly decreasing - I went back to John Flowers post on LifeZero.org “Super Fast 4TB RAID for under $2k” and with the new 1.5TB drives available from Seagate I built (on paper for now) a 8x 1.5 TB RAID 5 Array for a cost of $2400 but with a capacity of 10 TB!!!
What does this mean for the average guy - you can now afford more reliable drives in very fast configurations that were unreachable for media pros in the past. I still have a working JMR Fortra SCSI Raid enclosure that was $10k (7 years ago - but it’s nearly without point as I carry 3 TB in my backpack now!)
One of the precepts that I wanted to build this site upon is the “Democratizing of Film-making”, but what the heck does that phrase really mean - really?! To me it’s the process of opening the door for others and empowering them to make films as good (or better) than the “Corporate Film Industry.”
I’ve come across another community of people in an open round table discussion around “The Art of the Edit.” This open dialogue among three people really is eye opening to the process and methods that editors take to present a visual dialogue. Hosted by John Flowers ( @lifezero on twitter ) and with guests Paul Del Vecchio ( @pauldv on twitter) and guest Mike J Nichols (@TheEditDoctor on twitter). This is going to be a show to keep tabs on as it develops, so be sure to subscribe to their mp3 rss feed in your respective application!!!
Continue Reading ->
This site is a collection of who I am, what I do, and what I love. I'm a father of three, a one-man-band production workforce, and an Internet marketing, blogging coach, web designer as well.
