September Update

I’m happy to announce that yesterday was the last day of summer quarter at AiMIU and everything ended on a great note. Film III project “Mighty Mouse” was reshot and edited using Adobe products and Digital II film “Devil Thread” (working title Spinning Wheel) was finished. Those two projects will soon be featured on the blog in a few weeks’ time, as I am leaving some wiggle room for polishing the projects and uploading them online. It’s been one heck of a long summer in Miami, but now that the season is out, upcoming projects for the fall and early winter can now be focused on.

Fall quarter will commence the Monday after next, kicking off coursework in Directing Actors, Independent Producing, Scriptwriting II, and Anthropology. For the first time in about a year, I will be neither editing or shooting anything which leaves me time to work on some independent projects and fine tune the ol’ portfolio. More will be revealed on these ideas as they manifest themselves.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Talk about a lack of posts lately! I admit, I have been rather busy/distracted with school and the internship over at SFX-360 along with the ol’ job hunt, which is unfairly difficult these days. Just to glance over the many things I’ve done in the past few months:

• Wrap of “Wondersaurus” – The renamed project of Ryuiek and His Stella reached a wrap after a long and strenuous production cycle involving live-action shot entirely by myself (yeah thanks guys, sheesh) and then a couple minutes of claymation magic I captured by myself. I hope to have a few clips of the film online to show the world soon
• Film III production schedule – Worked as sound recordist, boom operator, assistant camera, director of photography, director, and grip on the Film III sets as part of the class over a period of five weeks while finishing Wondersaurus. Thank goodness that’s over! Whew!!
• Storied production of Film III project “Mighty Mouse” – What started off as “A Lost Hope” became “Mighty Mouse” after an overnight pre-production redo after circumstances prevented me from having a living cast and location. With money also being an obstacle, I penned a new script overnight to shoot the next day as planned about a mouse droid from the Star Wars universe who has been demoted to janitor after the Empire is torn down. After sending the 16mm film to the lab, the footage was lost and over the next few days I’ll have to redo the film on digital. Should be a treat when it’s done though
• Digital II pre-production – I’m filling the role of art director for the digital II project Spinning Wheel, a ten-minute short to be shot in high-definition. I’ve got a lot to do over the next couple of weeks before the shoot commences, including shopping for props and costumes, altering said costumes, and building a fake tree!

I hope to have some cool stuff to post over the next few days, including photos, clips, and new reviews. I aim to review the new iCarly movie as well that will be shown on Saturday on Nickelodeon.

May already?

Wow, I gotta say the month of April just flew by! Not a heck of a lot happened in that month to be honest, but I do know this month will be different… and very busy. Looking to be finishing the digital short up MOSTLY this month and then the Film III shoot is slated for the end of May. Also on the SFX-360 schedule is our big GameNARP event, a solid night of gaming in at Miami’s FIU south campus with free admission and $5 per person tournaments in Street Fighter IV, Gears of War 2, and others plus lots of gaming setups. That kicks off on May 15, which is this Friday!

So really all I’ve been doing is working on those things, have not had a lot of free time to watch and review much outside of my SFX writings. Coming up this week will be my review of Runner (which is finished) and also Plants vs. Zombies (almost finished), a game I highly recommend!