4 posts tagged “washington heights”

"It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic
failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and
would-haves."

-- M.H Meng

"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything."

-- George Lucas

I got another internship. This one is with a small company that just started up which has a few cons and pros. Con being once again there is no money and pro being that it won't be very time consuming. Another pro is that it won't be doing bitch work. I'll be the go to video guy.

I have another interview tomorrow I don't know if it is paid(I'm applying to at least 20 job a day, it is hard to keep em straight) but it is to follow around a grammy nominated artist, Katia Cadet, while she finished her debut cd and it drops sometime this summer.

Also I made a new video, just shot around the neighborhood just to pass the time and ended up with this

also my final screening is tonight and I have another one on friday. I have some Canadian tv show that has asked to play my short film also. I applied for a few jobs as camera op. and have a few projects with some other students after graduation too. More on that stuff later

here is a quick run around tour of my new resting place in New York.

that is right my final film is shot and the 6 hours of shooting spread over two days went smooth. I looked at the footage for the first time the other day and I feel pretty good about it. There are a few shoots that are messed up and they are some pretty important shoots. One of the problems is that we can see a big reflection of the lights in a picture frame, I think I'm either going to zoom in and crop out most of the reflection or blur the edges enough where you can't make out the perfect reflection or maybe get crazy and try to mask it to make it match the rest of the wall...but likely it will be some sort of combination of all three.
The bigger problem is that when our hero stops time.  It is done in several shots and one of them is when the street light turned on and everything is looking very RED. I don't know how much color correcting can be done to it or it the entire 'time frozen' sequence will have to have some kind of special color effect on it so it matches, that is going to be the key is making it all look like one shot, normally it would have been pretty simple minus this one that is really really RED.
The story if I haven't shared it yet; A simple man has a cubical job by day and is pretending to be a superhero by night. He is picking up litter and recycling, etc. He is serious about superheroing and once he has a chance to fight some real crime he doesn't disappoint.  Inspired somewhat by
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_life_superheros
http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/

I also am moving this week, from Harlem to Washington Heights. Harlem, what can I say about you? I have had a good time and I'll miss Pee Dee's STEAK and had good times at the duck. I haven't seen the new place yet at all but I'm a simple guy and easy to please and I hear the place is really nice. I have had a good time sluming it in Harlem for a while but I guess I'm going to step my game up. I think I have met most of the roommates back during New Years Eve and Kevin played my superhero in my short film. I haven't been on that side of this island yet but I'm guessing it can't be much different.

School is almost out and I don't have much a plan to keep me here in NYC so I'll figure it out soon enough. I'm sticking to the plan of not having much of a plan I suppose. I'm just going to be a take the road and see where it takes me. I'm cool with that. I'm going to make an updated reel with all the work that I have done so far in my carrer and hopefully that can get me a job or at least some freelance stuff. I don't mind getting some lame job, selling hamburgers or something like that as long as I'm still working at making the dream happen, even if it is just making videos for the web with roommates or something. I just want to make sure I'm not a becoming a waiter/coffee boy/blockbuster rep/streetvendor/nurse/etc and not a filmmaker. I can be not a filmmaker in Reno or anywhere but I'm in NYC to make films or something similar something creative.