Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Monday, August 11, 2014

Friend's Pics

Shooting the Guinness World Record for Most People Dressed As A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle 1,394---Swany Swan

Friday, August 8, 2014

Quotes


Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply", but not in those words.
Woody Allen, Director/Actor

Film Crew Slang


Ritter Fan- A specialty fan for big wind effects. It is absolutely HUGE. Large wooden propeller blades set on a frame & trailer with an auto or airplane engine to run it. Imagine having an airboat as a fan.

Break the Bubble: Tilting the camera off of it's axis. Tripods have a level bubble that is usually set to balance the camera so that it is straight and upright. Breaking the bubble makes it uneven. Also called a Dutch Angle or Canted Angle.

 

Friday, August 1, 2014

Friend's Pics

Went through 3 years of film school. Met this fool @fletchpowerfilms_com the last month before graduating. You a thought we was in every class together the way we work.--Petey Pete

Friday, July 25, 2014

On set of the Music video production. Director Rob Tuscani

Friend's Pics

Take me to bed or lose me forever.--Cinematographer Leo Jaramillo -Meddlesome Films

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Dialogue Greatness

"The Jerk" (1979)- Comedian Steve Martin as Navin "The Jerk" in a film directed by the brilliant Carl Reiner.

 Navin (Martin) works at a gas station. A crazed man is hiding on a hill across from
 the gas station. The shooter is "secretly" sniping at Navin with a hunting rifle. Shots hit oilcans that are stacked in a pyramid between the gas pumps next to Navin. The bullets smack into the cans with a popping sound and oil is squirting out of the holes. After multiple cans are hit Navin innocently says:
"Hey, I think these cans of oil are defective."

Fancy film words

Mis En Scene (miz-en-scen)- Translated as "Placing on stage". It is the arrangement of all of the visual elements of a theatrical production within the scene or stage. There are generally 4 elements:
1. Physical setting and decor
2. Staging of the action
3. The way in which the elements are framed
4. The way in which the elements are photographed

Film Crew Slang

Tentpole- A film designed to be a top grossing blockbuster (usually in the summer) to make up for a studio's financial flops. The Tentpole is usually part of a franchise series of films. Holy Tentpole Batman!

Monday, June 30, 2014

Friend's Pics


The shoot for the Kickstarter video went well today. Thank you to Stage 1 Studios, Robert Tuscani, John Peter Walsh, David White, Frank Geremia, Lisa Grant Walsh, Nori Mays, and Terry Mosley for all your help. #wallofpong #ochepong #beerpong

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Pick of the Week

Pick of the Week

"The Re-Animator"(1985) Directed by Stuart Gordon
Med school student Herbert West experiments with re-animating dead tissue. His professor dies in the lab under weird circumstances and Herbert is forced to continue his "re-agent"work at a new university. Gore and humor propel us through a Frankenstein/Jekyle & Hyde/Zombie hybrid flick based on an original story by master of horror H.P. Lovecraft. On a relatively low budget this picture provides excellent production value, performances and direction. It is deftly designed for hardcore horror fans who revel in the absurdly gross. Popularity led to a series of re-animator films. If you enjoy "The Evil Dead","Dead Alive" and the "Living Dead" films, "The Re-Animator" belongs in your Netflix cue.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Friend's Pics

Filming a piece for the NRA in the Texas heat.--FBS Grad Tim Yoder

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Fancy Film Words

Mis En Scene (miz-en-scen)- Translated as "Placing on stage". It is the arrangement of all of the visual elements of a theatrical production within the scene or stage. There are generally 4 elements:
1. Physical setting and decor
2. Staging of the action
3. The way in which the elements are framed
4. The way in which the elements are photographed

Dialogue Greatness

“Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.”
 
-----Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) in Dumb & Dumber, 1994

Freind's Pics

My daughter Lilah's first light signing. (Yes TB handheld on the fly)---Rob Tuscani, Cinematographer