My brother has been visiting for the past week so I haven’t had a chance to update my blog. What’s cool though, is that he willingly acted as my PA, grip, AD, and script supervisor on the short film I shot on Saturday. “Crab-Aid” is the first ever short film that I’ve written and directed. It’s also the first short film I’ve ever attempted to shoot using pro-sumer gear such as my Sony PDX-10 with Tiffen filters and my new Britek 500w lighting kit. My brother Chris and I stayed up till 5am creating and preparing props for the movie and creating a shot list. The next day we showed up at my friend Jeff’s apartment at 9am to begin production. I had Chris setup the lights while I prepared the set and setup the shots. Then I attempted to light the scene for shooting. The results are pretty good! I was impressed with some of the shots that I was able to get but some of the shots are not properly lit because we had problems with the lights. For some reason the halogen light bulbs wouldn’t “snap” into the place and would turn off at the slightest bump. It also didn’t help that the lights get extremely hot and cannot be touched for at least 15min after they are switched off. But for the most part the experience was great and I can’t wait to finish editing the piece!
In the meantime I’m suppose to be finishing editing the other short film I’m in and uploading all my new headshots to the online casting systems and printing out new 8×10’s for both my agencies.
Sometimes there doesn’t seem enough hours in the day.
BTW I need to get back to the gym. If I could just get in top physical shape I know I could model more and get more opportunities as a leading male actor…
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