Just wanted to update everyone that the quickly growing phenomenon known as “Hipster! The Musical” presented by Big Vision Industries is now in association with Perplexity Pictures! ‘Hipster! The Musical’ is an up-and-coming musical-comedy all about fixed gear bikes, horn-rimmed glasses, and embracing who you really are…through song!
Recently I slammed my very first poem. For years I’ve written my own poetry, but before now I’ve never had the guts to step into the spotlight. Why? Because I’m not a performer. I’m a steadfast behind-the-scenes kind of guy. What actors do terrifies me.
I finally approached my rough reality: graduating college with an art degree. For all those who can relate, aren’t you tired of the questions, “So…what do you want to do with that degree? What’s next?” I hate these questions and I’m exhausted from trying to wiggle my way around answering them (after all, I do have a degree in the creative field).
You never think it could happen to you. I didn’t think so either. After a great week of countless happy circumstance (one of which was getting hired by Apple, ironically enough) I found myself being rid of the device, gifted to me by my father, that was going to make my professional filmmaking career, and I had no choice about it. Read on to find out how to avoid what happened to me.
Last week, UCD hosted it’s bi-annual Cinefest, a film festival showcasing all of the student work from the corresponding semester. Perplexity Pictures screened two films and Perplexity members worked on many others, so I thought it would only be fitting to write about the event.
I just saw The Avengers. Two words: “Oh boy.”
I fancy myself a true connoisseur of Story, and I am simply delighted when a big-scale movie like The Avengers embraces the craft.
Too many tentpole films ignore the basic elements of character development and plot structure, opting for a tired formula that’s painfully adjusted to fit the studio’s fancy visual effect department and bill of superstar actors (I’m looking at you Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Shrek the Third, Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and pretty much every Michael Bay film of the last decade).
Today I present you with a tutorial where I show you an easy way to create a shotlist template for your films with amazing collaboration capabilities on Google Docs. I have looked around the internet for ages to find a suitable shotlist template for my needs. Eventually, I gave up and decided to create my own. I used Google Documents because it allowed for great collaboration capabilities with my Director of Photography and First Assistant Director.
My philosophy for every project is that no matter how great or how awful the process or the final product turn out, if I didn’t learn a single thing – then I’m doing something wrong. I set goals for each project in the beginning and access my success to how well I was able to achieve those goals.
