Well I’m back home in Edmonton now. I miss NYC. The city had so much energy, and I’m going to miss that a lot. Edmonton is great, but it is so quiet. There just isn’t that much going on here. But I’m glad to get back to my businesses, and I am happy to be able to really get some good work done, and hopefully start making some real progress towards my goals. My business partners are certainly happy to have me back and contributing more again.
Our two companies are really starting to get busy right now, and we’re at the point where we are going to need to get into a real office. Our first company Vigor Media is busy filming and editing weddings still, as well as some other miscellaneous projects. We deposited our first cheques into the account for our second company Hype Advertising just a few days ago, so it’s a good sign that things are headed in the right direction. I might not be in New York City, and it may take a while to get our business into the film industry, but it’s still on the radar, and hopefully we’ll make some money still on the way there.
For all you with film ambitions, I am going to start doing some more book reviews of books I have read and suggest for you guys to buy. I can’t stress enough how useful it is to read a lot of film books. Any film book is good, but I’ll suggest some specific ones that I own.
Right now I’m ripping through: Cinematography: Image Making for Cinematographers, Directors, and Videographers (Paperback)
by Blain Brown (available on Amazon and probably a million other places.) It talks alot about the hows and more importantly the whys of lighting, framing, etc. The best part is the tons of color photographs and stills from films most of us have seen that demonstrate the principles explained in the book.
Left by John on October 19th, 2006
hye, just read your blog and wanted to let you know that I had exactly the same experiece at nyfa. I signed up for the 8 week course, there were 14 of us. after 4 weeks, I had completed the first 3 films, but only 3 others had completed theirs… I couldn’t believe it. These wern’t 20 year old kids either, everyone was over 26 and lots of mid 30s. It made me realise that filmaking is hard and I respect anyone who has the drive to complete anything, whether it’s crap or not. I had imagined that I would meet lots of cool driven young cats who could work on future stuff together with, but that didn’t pan out! The last 4 weeks of my course was for us to just go shoot, no tuition… I already owned a dv camera and it diidn’t look that different to me so I dropped out and got half my money back. Looking back I made the right decision.
Left by Nigel on October 20th, 2006