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Personal Post: I'm experiencing something new this time around, something I never had to deal with before - backlash from fans. First, it's crazy to think that there's actually fans of these low budget films, ($200 for the first, $2000 for the second), but lo and behold, they're out there. I...

Finally had some time today to buckle down and finish the rough cut! At this point, everything is in place, now it's just a matter of tuning the cut and making sure it's the best film that it can be. With end credits, the movie is sitting at 85 minutes. I can't complain about that! I wasn't...

Well, my rough cut is sitting around an hour eighteen right now and I still have about ten minutes left to cut, so I really shouldn't have to worry about length, even if I cut it down a bit. Hoping to have a test screening with my wife soon to see how it all flows. Then I can take a few passes...

Awesome! Happy birthday!

Had a busy week with client work, but sat down today and cranked out another ten minutes of movie in about three hours. My brain hurts. Also, I was curious how much footage I actually shot on this project, so I threw all of the footage into one timeline and was pleasantly surprised to see that...

Checking back in! Today we shot the news reporter stuff. Annalise is new to the area, but has done a lot of modeling and some acting before. She helped out behind the scenes a bit and also was an extra during the funeral scene. I cast her as the news reporter and we shot it in my living room...

Dude, this is genius

Thirty minutes cut. Overall, this first pass is flowing pretty well, so that's good. I'm maybe missing a few insert shots here and there, so I'll need to get those at some point. I attribute it to having a large camera that's a pain to move, but overall I'm impressed. At the rate I'm going...

Start cutting the movie today. I wasn't able to keep up with cutting as I shot, so I'm starting at the beginning of the film and working my way through. I've got 13 minutes of rough cut so far and it's playing better than I expected, especially for a first pass. Also, McKenna wanted to take...

Same. Use my custom PC for editing and VFX and a Macbook to run the business and plan the films. It might already be installed on your iPad. Curious to hear yours and Mara's thoughts on it.

I just got a new M2 MacBook Air from Costco for $900, and it came preinstalled with an app called "Freeform". I had seen this app on my iPhone 14 Pro as well and decided to see what it was all about. As I started using it, I realized that this could maybe be used to brainstorm a movie. You...

I was motivated to get something done that would keep me excited in the months ahead. Plus I have a little version of the film now that I can use to refine the workflow. I'm using ACES and having problems with the grading and exporting on this one, so I can use it to work out the bugs. Even...

Thanks Mara! The dock shot is by far my favorite. Also the one of the two kids where she looks at him and says "Just like Elijah". I'm just really happy with how those two came out.

Finished the teaser! There's a YouTube premiere for it tomorrow at noon MST but I've got a Vimeo version (that looks a million times better) that I'm posting to Facebook, and of course here! Leap - Official Teaser

Day 16 It's a wrap on principal! We shot the few inserts that I needed, as well as the final scene, which I don't want to spoil, but lets just say that this was a very cold night shoot that saw us filming from sundown until after midnight. I acted as well and had to really trust the other...