Props to include in principal photography shoot Sunday for my upcoming AVIATORS short film. List subject to frequent updates:
1. Black feather or black downy feathers.
2. White scarf or handkerchief.
3. Leather gloves for cast.
4. Additional aviator sunglasses.
5. Fedora.
6. Overcoat.
7. White flowers or petals.
8. Fancy walking stick (cane).
9. Toy knives.
10. Toy guns.
11. Camera batteries.
12. Doily.
13. Digicam.
14. Binoculars.
15. Compass.
16. Toy katana.
17. New aviator glasses.
18. Pearly beaded necklace.
19. White feathers.
20. Silver or flowery ring.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Three Minutes After Midnight ;]
Yeah the title to this post is a wink to the Justice song One Minute to Midnight, which might be my favorite Justice song. BTW I can't wait for their sophomore album to drop.
Anyway. This post is about Scripped.com and writing.
So yeah I'm in a writing mood... maybe even a frenzy right now. I finalized the scripts for my teams group presentation, yes via Scripped.com. I thought I'd impress my friends that way, especially this one team mate who is into filmwriting and production like me lol. I don't know if she has heard of Scripped.com though so we'll see.
So those two school scripts are my first ever completed and copywritten screenplays on the site, better yet anywhere.
So excited!
Then after that I decided to finally go back to the saved portion of Serlyng and the Courtier, which I have renamed simply The Courtier, and get that decent. Well I did! I actually made that script look official. Its still got some more kinks to work out but after I was done I just had to download the PDF and its so cool. Its got my username, the date, "Copywrite" on it and the works ^_^
So even though I am not done-done with it, I feel like I'm very far along with it. And it was my first ever script in life so its very important to me to get it right.
So now I am about to catch some Zzzs but i am so proud and thnakful to have some work done filmwise. Now I have to return to another saved half of a script on the site I have been working on for a while. Only difference between that and The Courtier is that I was able to import my first script but this newer one I am writing on the site from scratch. That's fun but it's a a bit of a drag. But I'll get it done. Its a pretty brief story, written in my parrallel worlds style as usual haha.
And after that one is complete I can get to work on Aviators. Though that will take precidence over the other script, I wanna finsh it and then make sure I have enough dialogue to marry with the actiona I have in craploads.
But this is very encouraging and a small step to mastery and I can't wait to get more writting done on the site. Gotta work on a comicbook format too!
Ok I am yawning and stuff so I need to go. More on the way.
Thank God for creativity... and free script writing software!
FIN
Anyway. This post is about Scripped.com and writing.
So yeah I'm in a writing mood... maybe even a frenzy right now. I finalized the scripts for my teams group presentation, yes via Scripped.com. I thought I'd impress my friends that way, especially this one team mate who is into filmwriting and production like me lol. I don't know if she has heard of Scripped.com though so we'll see.
So those two school scripts are my first ever completed and copywritten screenplays on the site, better yet anywhere.
So excited!
Then after that I decided to finally go back to the saved portion of Serlyng and the Courtier, which I have renamed simply The Courtier, and get that decent. Well I did! I actually made that script look official. Its still got some more kinks to work out but after I was done I just had to download the PDF and its so cool. Its got my username, the date, "Copywrite" on it and the works ^_^
So even though I am not done-done with it, I feel like I'm very far along with it. And it was my first ever script in life so its very important to me to get it right.
So now I am about to catch some Zzzs but i am so proud and thnakful to have some work done filmwise. Now I have to return to another saved half of a script on the site I have been working on for a while. Only difference between that and The Courtier is that I was able to import my first script but this newer one I am writing on the site from scratch. That's fun but it's a a bit of a drag. But I'll get it done. Its a pretty brief story, written in my parrallel worlds style as usual haha.
And after that one is complete I can get to work on Aviators. Though that will take precidence over the other script, I wanna finsh it and then make sure I have enough dialogue to marry with the actiona I have in craploads.
But this is very encouraging and a small step to mastery and I can't wait to get more writting done on the site. Gotta work on a comicbook format too!
Ok I am yawning and stuff so I need to go. More on the way.
Thank God for creativity... and free script writing software!
FIN
Friday, August 13, 2010
Clouds Between My Knees
I was supposed to meet up with this dude I met at Borders who's really into filmmaking. But a family thing came for him so we gotta rescheduel.
Dag i just had this tune in my head and i wanted to try it out on the piano, but i lost it >_<
I've told others that flying means I can escape my problems, literally rise above them. Even though this doens't erase the problem(s)... I think what I want is a reminder that things aren't always what they seem. A reminder that with a new perspective on things I can beat the problem.
I figure a bird's eyeview is certainly better than a "nose-deep in trouble" perspective. Don't you?
And you know, displaying flight would be the least destructive way to stick it to your enemies, to those who look down on you, who think you're a loser or incompetent. Flying itsn't like superstrength or heatvision or lazers or turning into a monster. You try to intimidate your enemies with those powers and you're definitely going to be perceived as a villain. Think about it.
But if I were to just shoot up into the SKY, far over your head in the blink of an eye...
...you'd just be left there looking UP to me, head in clouds but with your feet on the ground. Heh.
Flying is my favorite superpower. It's infinity. It's inspirtaion. It's fear. It's love.
It's whatever, for some whomever, makes one feel weightless and insurmountable.
And it's the one dream that unifies us all, good and bad, poor and rich, bound and free...
...whether wide awake, or sound asleep.
"When you can FLY you can do ANYTHING."
-ICON: A Hero's Welcome.
... So that little piece I called Clouds Between My Knees, a wink to a line in Five For Fighting's song Superman (It's Not Easy). I uploaded those words to my hitRECord account as my 2nd contribution to the "Superheroes!Superpowers!" collab going on there, one of the MANY going on there lol. Nowadays I'm like saving the pages in my account so I can go back to them to join em at a later date. It's fantastic!
So on youtube all you can do is film stuff, which makes sense and I'm an aspiring filmmaker anyway. But on Joe Gordon-Levitt's site you have options. You can take pix. Film. Write. But best of all fuse these aspects together. And mostly I've uploaded pictures, mostly the lightthemed ones I uploaded to my facebook, but its a good start i think.
So i have an idea for a video, or rather a series of vids. I'm looking to how creative I can make it or need to while also looking into the style and how it'll fit on the site.
Superman movies my way ^_^
Yeah this week has been defined by flying and superman for me and some who know me. I'm not really sure why, just how the week has gone I guess. I wrote a Note on FB months back saying I was trying to get back in touch with Superman since after the Green Lantern Blackest Night event it hit me that for all the comicbooks I read, Superman isn't one of them
...and he's MY FAVORITE SUPERHERO O_O!
I mean he's the most iconic hero of them all, his shield is everywhere so he's great merchandise. But ya know if I didn't know about Supes' powers and his origiin and the fights he's been in and what he stands for... he'd just be a symbol that makes $$$. But since I do kno all that stuff about him, it makes the stuff I own from him that much more valuable =)
...hmmm listening to Art In Me by Jars Of Clay ;]
I hope I do actually find script writing fun and doable. Technically I've already written one, tho it was formatted maybe like a rough play, and it was intended to be a TV script for an anime. But you kno? I said to a friend of mine recently, and maybe I should think about this more, screenwriting was what I finally settled on since it merges both reading/writing/visualization all at the same time; well hopefully if the script is sold and used, and if the movie gets made, and if it gets seen lol.
But I'm honestly wondering if that's still what I think God was saying to me to do. The only thing that feels set in stone is media art specifically in filmmaking but idk if it's in solely screenwriting =/ If you want to read the script read this post:
http://diamondintherough101.blogspot.com/2009/01/serlyng-and-courtier.html
And for the inspirations and stuff behind the script read the following post:
http://diamondintherough101.blogspot.com/2009/02/making-of-serlyng-and-courtier.html
I wanna reproduce stories like this cuz writting like this is what really makes me feel weightless in life, like nothing can touch me, like I can do anything.
And I think that's God's best for me, definitely!
FIN
Dag i just had this tune in my head and i wanted to try it out on the piano, but i lost it >_<
I've told others that flying means I can escape my problems, literally rise above them. Even though this doens't erase the problem(s)... I think what I want is a reminder that things aren't always what they seem. A reminder that with a new perspective on things I can beat the problem.
I figure a bird's eyeview is certainly better than a "nose-deep in trouble" perspective. Don't you?
And you know, displaying flight would be the least destructive way to stick it to your enemies, to those who look down on you, who think you're a loser or incompetent. Flying itsn't like superstrength or heatvision or lazers or turning into a monster. You try to intimidate your enemies with those powers and you're definitely going to be perceived as a villain. Think about it.
But if I were to just shoot up into the SKY, far over your head in the blink of an eye...
...you'd just be left there looking UP to me, head in clouds but with your feet on the ground. Heh.
Flying is my favorite superpower. It's infinity. It's inspirtaion. It's fear. It's love.
It's whatever, for some whomever, makes one feel weightless and insurmountable.
And it's the one dream that unifies us all, good and bad, poor and rich, bound and free...
...whether wide awake, or sound asleep.
"When you can FLY you can do ANYTHING."
-ICON: A Hero's Welcome.
... So that little piece I called Clouds Between My Knees, a wink to a line in Five For Fighting's song Superman (It's Not Easy). I uploaded those words to my hitRECord account as my 2nd contribution to the "Superheroes!Superpowers!" collab going on there, one of the MANY going on there lol. Nowadays I'm like saving the pages in my account so I can go back to them to join em at a later date. It's fantastic!
So on youtube all you can do is film stuff, which makes sense and I'm an aspiring filmmaker anyway. But on Joe Gordon-Levitt's site you have options. You can take pix. Film. Write. But best of all fuse these aspects together. And mostly I've uploaded pictures, mostly the lightthemed ones I uploaded to my facebook, but its a good start i think.
So i have an idea for a video, or rather a series of vids. I'm looking to how creative I can make it or need to while also looking into the style and how it'll fit on the site.
Superman movies my way ^_^
Yeah this week has been defined by flying and superman for me and some who know me. I'm not really sure why, just how the week has gone I guess. I wrote a Note on FB months back saying I was trying to get back in touch with Superman since after the Green Lantern Blackest Night event it hit me that for all the comicbooks I read, Superman isn't one of them
...and he's MY FAVORITE SUPERHERO O_O!
I mean he's the most iconic hero of them all, his shield is everywhere so he's great merchandise. But ya know if I didn't know about Supes' powers and his origiin and the fights he's been in and what he stands for... he'd just be a symbol that makes $$$. But since I do kno all that stuff about him, it makes the stuff I own from him that much more valuable =)
...hmmm listening to Art In Me by Jars Of Clay ;]
I hope I do actually find script writing fun and doable. Technically I've already written one, tho it was formatted maybe like a rough play, and it was intended to be a TV script for an anime. But you kno? I said to a friend of mine recently, and maybe I should think about this more, screenwriting was what I finally settled on since it merges both reading/writing/visualization all at the same time; well hopefully if the script is sold and used, and if the movie gets made, and if it gets seen lol.
But I'm honestly wondering if that's still what I think God was saying to me to do. The only thing that feels set in stone is media art specifically in filmmaking but idk if it's in solely screenwriting =/ If you want to read the script read this post:
http://diamondintherough101.blogspot.com/2009/01/serlyng-and-courtier.html
And for the inspirations and stuff behind the script read the following post:
http://diamondintherough101.blogspot.com/2009/02/making-of-serlyng-and-courtier.html
I wanna reproduce stories like this cuz writting like this is what really makes me feel weightless in life, like nothing can touch me, like I can do anything.
And I think that's God's best for me, definitely!
FIN
Sunday, July 18, 2010
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger Darling."
INCEPTION
oh my gosh!
ok i'm hoping tonight i can put my review video together. its prob my favorite one and i almost watched other ppls videos on youtube but decided against it lol. i'll just plan out my video and then begin work on it.
i think this one will be cool bczu its different. i took a cue from Indymogul at youtube and this time i interviewed my friends and got their take on Inception ^_^
Which i think is great bcuz it was "guys night out". The brotherhood got together and after spending hours b4 the film just talking about comic books and upcoming movies, we hit up Chris Nolan's latest gem.
Here's what we thought of it.
oh my gosh!
ok i'm hoping tonight i can put my review video together. its prob my favorite one and i almost watched other ppls videos on youtube but decided against it lol. i'll just plan out my video and then begin work on it.
i think this one will be cool bczu its different. i took a cue from Indymogul at youtube and this time i interviewed my friends and got their take on Inception ^_^
Which i think is great bcuz it was "guys night out". The brotherhood got together and after spending hours b4 the film just talking about comic books and upcoming movies, we hit up Chris Nolan's latest gem.
Here's what we thought of it.
Sorry it too me so long to upload, the movie came out like a week or two ago by now, just work has kept me UBER BUSY. But yeah, its my favorite review video yet bcuz of my friends and i didn't need to talk all that much.
I'm glad Nolan got to make this movie of his dreams, pun intended lol. I thought of it as The Dark Knight2 as well haha its weird. But the movie is crazy good and you should go see it sappy-ASAP if u haven't yet.
There's so much more I would have said but its late, both specifically tonight and seeing as the movie has already come out and some of my excitement has diminished somewhat.
i'm just happy to have uploaded the video and seen the movie with my buds.
So go see it and always dream big!
FIN
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
=/ + ^_^ = NEW VIDEO!
So i'm back after a few weeks abscense(sp?)... thig is i didin't expect my latest blog to be slightly a downer lol =/ Ironically today was a good day at work. i wasn't over worked, tho not a lot of people showed up. Thing is a lady came thru today wearing a black T that had something to do with film production but i can't remember what it said now. Naturally that caught my attention. I was going to ask her about it but who could have guessed SHE HAD LEFT HER FREAKIN' $$$ IN HER CAR?!?!?!
So basically I couldn't talk to the lady about it and it bummed me out. So much so that I wrote A LOT MORE about it a few minutes ago but my connection got messed up or something and all that was left was the above part of the original blog!!!!!!!!! O_O Hah yeah, basically I was taking a moment to have a pity party and then when I began to write more about trusting God I switched gears and uploaded the latest video I had intended to post anyway, which I'm about to upload for the second time lol. I made it Sunday night and posted it on youtube but the music was muted cuz of a copyright issue. i'm hoping that will change soon. So here it is HELIOS featuring music by MUTEMATH!
I;m not sure what to do about the copyright thing at youtube so we'll see what happends. thank God for more outlets than what the tube can provide tho right?
I'm sure you recognize a lot of those photos from a previous post (Cellphone Pix!). But I was just listening to MuteMath Sunday and suddenly God gave me this idea to just do a montage of photos to "Stare At the Sun" and light and stuff is my favorite photographic subject anyway and I already had these pix so it all just worked out lol.
I hope to do another one, but untill then enjoy this video and I'll talk to you later.
Peace out!
FIN
So basically I couldn't talk to the lady about it and it bummed me out. So much so that I wrote A LOT MORE about it a few minutes ago but my connection got messed up or something and all that was left was the above part of the original blog!!!!!!!!! O_O Hah yeah, basically I was taking a moment to have a pity party and then when I began to write more about trusting God I switched gears and uploaded the latest video I had intended to post anyway, which I'm about to upload for the second time lol. I made it Sunday night and posted it on youtube but the music was muted cuz of a copyright issue. i'm hoping that will change soon. So here it is HELIOS featuring music by MUTEMATH!
I;m not sure what to do about the copyright thing at youtube so we'll see what happends. thank God for more outlets than what the tube can provide tho right?
I'm sure you recognize a lot of those photos from a previous post (Cellphone Pix!). But I was just listening to MuteMath Sunday and suddenly God gave me this idea to just do a montage of photos to "Stare At the Sun" and light and stuff is my favorite photographic subject anyway and I already had these pix so it all just worked out lol.
I hope to do another one, but untill then enjoy this video and I'll talk to you later.
Peace out!
FIN
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Experiencing greater things.
*SAVED TO MY DRAFTS LIKE A YEAR AGO MAYBE TWO*
April 3, a film making friend of mine showed his movie Rivers of My Fathers at an independent film festival. It was my first time seeing the finished product, since filming concluded Thanksgiving fo last year. All I could say was wow! The film was shot when it was bitter cold, but the movie looks like springtime! There are insect sounds, and sunshine, wildlife... everything, I'm like "Was I there?!" The film is 18 minutes and is about a father and his college kid son on a bonding fishing trip before the son goes off to college at Howard University. My job on the prject was boom-operator, the guy who gathers all of the sound while the actors do their thing, I basically hold the big microphone lol.
But it was awesome working with Faraday, the director, and the other crew members and actors. It was a double priviledge to see other short films at the festival as well, a lot of down to earth people. One in particular I just up and met, even got her film free and everything, because the festival lasted two days and I was only able to make day 1. Her film Reverie, is about a young girl "[trying] to make sense of her father's acitons and her brother's death". It was only 7 minutes long, but I hung on every minute. I thought it was that good and it rmeinded me of a dream, the way Paula (the director) shot the film, it looked like a dream; I also liked how "thoughtful" and innocent the movie seems, even though in a sense, innocence is lost by film's end.
Paula is a very nice girl and we seem to have hit it off well, corresponding over email nealry everyday about her film. I've been able to offer help on her upcoming film due to shoot latter in the month. Some odd things on set really, but hey, I'm willing to help in any way that I can, and I'm gratful for the exposure to how film is made. Her new film is called, Order My Steps.
Thank you for doing the same with me God!
*NOW*
Order My Steps trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6UrpuKN70Here is Paula's first finished film Reverie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bckeaA2UmiU&feature=related
The Official blue Light City music video by Paula (as of this year):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCCbpyD2w0
As soon as Faraday Okoro puts on more via youtube or something i will post links and info. This weekend I'm hoping to work with Paula again on the 48 HOUR PROJECT. Teams basically spend 2days doing nothing but making and editting a short film. It should be awesome!
Later
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