Creativity

Have you ever thought about creativity, and how it comes about? I've been trying to come up with an idea for a short film, but story telling has never been my strong suit. I know that there are people from whom stories and strains simply emanate, but that's not me. So I got to thinking, is that sort of creativity always a gift, or a talent, that you either have or don't? Or is it a skill that can be developed like math or writing? If so, how does one go about said daunting task?

Movie Survey

Over at the Botkin sister's blog: Visionary Daughters (which I would highly recommend), they have a Movie Survey going right now. I just finished taking it, and the results are pretty interesting. It just says that they're gathering intel for a project they are working on, so the more people that answer it, the better!

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

SteadiCam and My Absence

Sorry all that I've been gone for so long. I'm spending all my spare time working on my steadicam, which I hope to sell small scale, and I want to have prototype V2 ready by this friday, because my brother Ross and I will be driving to CO for Generations with Vision's Shepherding Conference. I know that there will be some people there more involved with the Christian Independent film market (like Kevin Swanson), so hopefully I'll be able to get some advice, and maybe even some exposure!
We will be leaving this friday, and It's a twenty hour drive from here to there, and we're pretty much going to do it all at once, so maybe I'll have some time then to get some photos up.

The Box! (several months late)

So some how I forgot to post the video that Peter and I made for Christianfilmmakers.org 36 hour film contest.

Tell me what you think? What were it's strong points? Weak points?

International Duel (2011) Teaser Trailer

It's finished!!!!
we've finally finished the trailer for our first movie!!
Here's it is!!
(You might need to turn the music off in the side bar.)


Please comment on the youtube page, I check that more often.
Paul

Filming!

Well, I probably should have posted on this quite a while ago, but I didn't, so now I am! The main reason being that I'm being filmed, right at this very moment! There's a shot at the beginning of the film where I'm working on my computer, and I need to be typing to make it look more realistic, so I figured "Hey, why not do something productive while I'm just sitting here!" so that's what I'm doing!
Anyway, So we got everything we need in Akumal, so now we're filming the shots we need at my house. There aren't many, but they're still going to take some time because of our limited staff. Right now David is pulling the dolly, and Peter is running the camera. Fun fun! Hopefully I'll get some photos and maybe a commercial up soon!
Until then!
Paul