I’m a seasoned problem-solver with a lot of opinions about the way we work in the entertainment industry. With 15 years of award-winning experience in media, and hundreds of television and film credits, I want to use my well-honed sense of user empathy and my well-earned technical knowledge to bridge the gap between creative and technology.
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A short film I served as a production assistant on last summer, “Leah not Leia”, will be premiering at the Hamilton 16 IMAX on Friday July 1st! The festivities start just before midnight on Friday evening, starting with some short films and trailers from other local filmmakers, including one I co-edited and production managed for […]
Throughout the first half of this year, I’d been working on editing a short video essay/book trailer with ex-prof/friend Richard Edwards. The video is based on the forthcoming book “The Maltese Touch of Evil” by Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards, and that book is based on their podcast series “Out of the Past: Investigating Film […]
I saw Tree of Life this weekend. I’ve never really been a die-hard fan of Terrence Malick’s work particularly, but the beauty of the trailer paired with the buzz (both positive and negative) at Cannes intrigued me greatly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie like this before. I had absolutely no idea what […]
I don’t commonly talk about books on this blog, as it is after all a video editor blog. The only ones I’ve mentioned in the past have been technical books. But recently I read a book based on a blog I’ve been connected to for a long time, and I wanted to talk a little […]
I did a photo shoot for a friend this weekend. She’s getting married early next year and wanted to do some engagement photos in the spring, so I volunteered to do them in order to continue to build my portfolio. Here are a few shots I particularly liked:
I’ve ranted about my annoyance with lazy people doing tutorials instead of actually learning software. Last night I had to do an effect in After Effects where some letters needed to sort of appear on screen like smoke. Probably over a year ago now, I did a Video Copilot tutorial where I blew someone up. […]
11 Things that make you edit more efficiently (and therefore more professionally) that most new users don’t know (because it isn’t that intuitive and they don’t read the manual.) Here’s another installment in my on-going blog series about Things I Didn’t Learn in School, which is basically a series where I half-complain about the lack […]
My Yoga for Video Editors post got retweeted by Art of the Guillotine and subsequently cycled into a number of RSS feeds. Cool! Speaking of yoga, I designed an Ashtanga Primary Series cheat sheet for Amanda Markland, pictured in the yoga post. Just in case any of you should be wanting to try to learn […]
Last week, I got an email letting me know that the 2011 48 Hour Film Project tour was kicking off this month. Is it really that time already? I still haven’t recovered from last time. We’re signed up to officially participate this year. Indy’s dates are the last weekend in July again. I was thinking […]
Demo reels for editors have always confounded me. If you go to a forum and ask for advice, you’ll get 10 responses and they’ll all be contradictory. What the eff, man? Don’t do a montage! Do a montage! Don’t show clips! Just show some clips! Don’t do a reel, just link full samples! No one […]