The six minute film is now over. We have completed our 7 week Thursday-Sunday rotation through all 7 positions: Director Boom Operator Assistant Director 1st Assistant Camera Gaffer Director of Photography Sound Mixer All seven people in my group (6 directors and 1 DP) went through this rotation sta[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Acting’
March 25th, 2010 - 11:03 pm § in Filmmaking, UCLA Film School
10 Things I Learned On the 6-Minute Shoots
July 8th, 2009 - 5:43 pm § in Filmmaking
Isabelle Huppert on Acting
Isabelle Huppert, best known to me for her appearance in Michael Haneke films such as the Piano Teacher and the Time of the Wolf, gave an interesting interview at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this week. She received the festival’s Crystal Globe this year, an annual award given [...]
February 4th, 2009 - 4:31 pm § in Off Topic
Christian Bale, Quentin Tarantino and the Italian Intern
I recently returned from a five day shoot in Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin. It was a low budget science fiction film and an amazing experience. As second assistant director my main job was watching out for the cast and extras, and making sure they made out of makeup on time. The makeup was very s[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 10:10 am § in Reviews
Great Movies: Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)
“Nobody has the time to be vulnerable to each other.” I’m sick for the first time in two years, so I have an opportunity to be a little lazy and watch a lot of movies. I finally got a chance to watch John Cassavetes’s Faces, which is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The [...]