Instead of prattling on for a couple of hundred words, I give you the equivalent of a thousand. And a reminder that the speed of time is not a constant.
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That’s a gorgeous picture. I was flipping through blogs when I saw it. I just had to say something though. Its tilty and stuff. Wish I had it when I was taking photography!
Thank you very much. Just a quick shot with the camera phone on the walk home. Feel free to check back, you may see some more you like.
So far I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog. I added it to my favorites to keep updated and sent it to a couple of friends. I hope you don’t mind and will do. Also, there’s another pic that was awesome of a desk in shadows. That was really cool! Heh.. I’m curious what you could do with a real camera. These are great!
I don’t mind at all. The more the merrier. Have you got a blog or site of your own?
The desk shot is one I’m particularly proud of.
My photo ability comes mainly from being something of an independent filmmaker. In fact I just discovered I’ve still got some pictures online from a recent film so you can get a glimpse of what I can do with a real camera:
http://www.wackoproductions.net/cldpix.html
I do have an LJ I had to recreate because I lost the password to my old one. Its http://www.livejournal.com/TheSimiKitty .I have to find my old discs but as soon as I do, I was planning on posting things for comments. I love critics! Heh, I have to. I’m an animation major and I’m online alot so my LJ is updated and I’m always looking at other people’s blogs. I didn’t know you were a cinematographer (I think I spelled that wrong). I just enjoy the fact that your blog has interesting stuff to read. Heh… Well, check out my LJ if you’d like.
The pics are really great, too. I know its important to have a good subject but these aren’t blurry and I really like the black and whites. Do you use photoshop? Oh, and do you know anything about storyboarding? I have to start soon and I wanted to get ahead. I’m shameless in asking for help!
K, this just hit me. The guy in all your pics (not the girl, the guy) looks like Jesus. Can’t remember his real name. I used to go to Rocky, long time ago, and Jesus was nice. That’s who he looks like though.
Funny story about that. I checked your livejournal and the info page and there was Rod (a.k.a splunge) in your friends list. And that is Jesus (a.k.a. Allen). I also used to go to Rocky (and performed on cast for a long time).Atlanta can be so f*cking small sometimes.
Thanks again for the compliments too. Especially the great comments on your lj. I would have blushed if I were so inclined. None of those shots have been touched by photoshop (though I do use it for other things) and I think most of them are just stills taken from the video footage (I tend to shoot with the idea that any frame can be taken and appreciated as a still). They were originally in color and I dropped the color out in iPhoto.
I do know a bit about storyboarding and would answer any questions you may have.
I consider myself a writer above all else and am taking a bit of a break from the filmmaking to get the writing muscles back into shape as they’ve been allowed to atrophy a bit over the past couple of years. Therefore there will be plenty more writing to come.
Atlanta is TOO small. Heh! I kinda feel like my life is made of circles. I keep bumping into someone from someplace from sometime that I had completely forgotten about. Sorry, even my thoughts go in circles. Speaking of Photoshop, I hate the fact its the only program I’m comfortable in. I’m glad you’ll keep writing too. What’s scary, and don’t scream, I used to have a crush on Leo. That’s whats scary. When I saw his name on your site, my first thought was, “Oh goddess, here we go again!” LOL.
Rod’s a good friend and soon I’m making him watchn Death to Smoochie. He’s never seen it. Nor the Man Who Knew Too Little. Drives me nuts when good movies go unwatched. Though, that’s completely opinion. Before Nini went back to Missi, I was told to read your apocolypse thing… kinda intense but at least you had stuff to prove your point.
Anyhoo, I talk alot and sorry for that. About storyboarding, how do you even begin to lay out a script? I can come up with all these great ideas and amazing characters but then it happens. you know, IT! That big wall between writing and brainstorming. I’m too short to climb over it. >.
Well, if you had a knew Leo, we’ve likely seen/met each other at some point then as I’m the one that first got him into it.
The apocalypse stuff is not something I’ve discussed much publicly, not in such clear terms anyway. It’s thanks to the person I mentioned in that post and an author I read that made me decide to go ahead and talk about it even if I do expect people might see it all as just nuttiness.
Ah. Well yes, writing a script does come before storyboarding. I learned how just by doing. It’s different from just writing prose though the core is the same. The only book on screenwriting (heck, about the only book on any kind of writing) that I can recommend is The Complete Book of Screenwriting by J. Michael Straczynski. It covers not only the form of a script but also the content and the difference between screenwriting and prose. I just checked my copy and, as I remembered, he even has a whole section devoted to writing for animation. It’s back in print so it’s available through real book stores too (not thaqt I’m saying you should rush out and buy a copy, but if you’re looking for a book to help, that’s the one).
I have been planning a post on my pre-writing process and how I go from that to writing so I’ll actually have some words here soon about it. (The next post will either be on that or enviromental issues. The coin is still spinning.) In the meantime, kung fu monkey is the blog of screenwriter John Rogers who has posted several entries on writing and is also a hell of a writer and blogger (so worth a read regardless of your interest in screenwriting).
Anyway, time for me to do some writing myself.
We probably have met. Though, to be perfectly honest, I don’t remember everybody from the period in my life. Leo I remember because I used to gawk at him at AWA. Heh.. school girl crush. I was suck a dork! I barely knew him but he’s always been a sweetie. In fact, I was living with my bestfriend Jaimie at the time we started going to Rocky so you may have met her. She went by Dragon I think. I was just me.
With the apocalypse stuff, you don’t sound like a conspiracy freak. LOL. My dad knows quite a few of those. Which author did you read? Its funny because one of my favorite books is Hitchhiker’s Guide (I wish I could go see the movie) and this friend of his claims its actually the rest of the DaVinci code. I won’t say who but this guy treats that book like its the bible, the truth. Heh… I guess whatever you believe, neh?
I finally finished a short and I want to script it so this will be of major help! The book you mentioned will actually be our new textbook next quarter. Of course, it will change again. I have this little book from the first time I was supposed to take the class and it doesn’t really help.
Enviromental-heads and writing-tails. I’ll check out the blog, too. Thanks! Maybe I’ll get the nerve to post some of my horrible writing. Heee….bwhahaha! Makes some people’s heads spin.