PRESENTATION DAY FOUR

I went over to Patrick’s to review footage today. Things look great, except Patrick and Ryan apparently failed to notice that the battery was dying on the wireless mic rec ... [read more]

3:38 am

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Everything is packed up and now in Adrian’s trunk. We left a few cables, my little crap monitor and a spattering of movie making paraphernalia laying on the floor, but the green screen is gone, the equipment is missing and the lights are no long ... [read more]

1:46 am

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PRESENTATION DAY THREE

The footage from yesterday looks like sh**! Nice. When we did the tests the other night we had the camera set to 4:3. Apparently, when you switch the camera to the fake-ass 16:9 mod ... [read more]

4:13 am

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Stop rocking. Stop rocking. Stop rocking. It was all I could say to myself, and there I am at 15 years old on the stage at Clay High School and guess what? I’m rocking. Later, when watching portions of the cast video that Joy and Naomi were  ... [read more]

1:17 am

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… and I don’t believe them.  I think they really want to kill me instead.  Regardless, we figured out the image problem.  It was the 16:9 mode which actually distorts the image by cutting off the pixels from the top and bottom, then stre ... [read more]

3:31 pm

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I am so fed up right now.  So done with this whole thing.  Adrian is really pissing me off.  I don’t care how stressed he is, and how much is going on in his life right now — but the guy has to get out of his little microcosm and realize ... [read more]

3:42 am

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PRESENTATION DAY TWO

Another perfect day…

I’m on two hours of sleep today after a long sleep-deprived day yesterday.

Ryan and I found ourselves waiting around for Patrick. He showed up 45 minutes late. read more]

3:42 am

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Adrian and I left the studio tonight feeling pretty good about things.  That’s even weird to say — the studio.  It makes this all feel real.  Matt has a great little place here and after moving everything around needed for his portraitur ... [read more]

4:14 am

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PRESENTATION DAY ONE

I’m unhappy right now.

The joyous events of my day:

- Got up ridiculously early to drive three and a half hours downstate with Ryan to pick up equipment to shoot.

- Drove thre ... [read more]

3:38 am

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