Film Editing: The Creative and The Technical
Getting your film in the can is a major accomplishment that gets you one step closer to a final product. What you’ve accumulated, however, is nothing more than a plethora…
Darkness Hunting: Preparing for the Shoot
Once you gain knowledge and experience from your first feature film, what should you do for your second one? The answer - go bigger! I learned a great deal from…
Writing Darkness Hunting and How the Story Came to Be
What's the best kind of place to visit and research before you write your screenplay about a notoriously haunted location? Well, a notoriously haunted location, of course. After the long…
Casting The Devil’s Instrument and What I Learned from It
Who is going to be your new best-friend when you go to cast your next independent feature film? Modeling and Talent Agencies. If you are ready to start casting for…
Those Pesky Ideas and All That I Know About Them
Why did I decide to write about ideas and everything that I know about them, even though this extremely ambiguous subject terrifies me? Because a whole lot of people, including…
How I Prepared the Set of The Devil’s Instrument for Success
Preparation is Everything. Period. I had a lot of time to prepare for The Devil’s Instrument and I was more than happy to have that time. The more you prepare…
The Pre-Production Process and How I Go About Doing It: Part 2
How does everyone know where to be and what to do on a film set? Because they have a schedule. I’m going to pick up where I left off in…
The Pre-Production Process and How I Go About Doing It: Part 1
What is the most important part of the filmmaking process? Hands down and without question, it would have to be pre-production. There are three main parts to filmmaking: pre-production, production,…
Why I Made The Devil’s Instrument and How the Story Came to Be
Why does a filmmaker reflect upon the processes that went into creating the story for a film that he has made? Because people ask him certain questions about it. I’ve…