The Premiere of Haggling

Labor Day weekend was slightly more special for me this year. Not only did I get an extra day off (in commemoration for the workers unions and fair labor acts, not expectant mothers as many falsely think), I also got the opportunity to see my screenplay, “Haggling,” come to life on the big screen! It…

“One More Ride” – Short Film

While attending Full Sail, we went through a serious of interesting class assignments that challenged us to be creative in a restrictive environment. We had one such assignment where the instructor provided us with a string of dialogue and a total count of characters that we had to use in a short film of our…

Humbled

This morning, I sat down at my desk and committed myself to focus on my homework for class. This is the final project, the culmination of our studies on publishing and distribution. In case you haven’t been following the blog for the past few weeks, I had to come up with a new project and…

The Short Doc: Memoirs of a Yo-Yo Dieter

For those of you that follow both of my blogs, I apologize that you’re seeing this post twice. I promised myself that if I went through with it and created this documentary on my eating disorder, I’d share it with the world. If you’re going to do anything in life, do it well and do…

The editing is done… maybe?

So, I’ve spent three days and countless hours editing. I’ve gone from a silent film, to narrated [that’s a blog post all on it’s own, people], to deleting all of my narration and using title slides and background music. The more I look at this film, the more I edit it. In fact, if I…

The Green Light

Just a quick note — Even though I had planned to move forward with the filming of my doc tonight regardless, I was pretty thrilled to get a response back from my teacher this morning: “I am glad you are pushing out of your usual medium and also using your personal knowledge and life experiences. …