Sinohui Hinojosa and I have worked on a lot of projects together, from “The Last Job” to the critically acclaimed web series, “EXIT: Stage Left” It’s with great excitement that I am working with Sinohui again, and this time on a feature film, “Dark Harvest”. I will be providing DIT (Digital Imaging Tech) services for [...]

I recently worked on a short film by Amy Puzia called, “The Gift”.   The shoot was actually just an editing exercise for class at De Anza College, but in order to edit something, you have to shoot something, so we ended up doing this piece.  We had a very minimal crew, and did very minimal [...]

On the 9th of January at 10:46AM PST a red user noticed a very interesting lens at B and H Photo (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/665583-REG/DigiOptical_DO_18_50F_DO1850F_18_50mm_T3_PL.html)  This lens was labeled DigiOptical, and in every way, this was an identical lens to the RED 18-50 zoom lens.   Only it was $3999.95 compared to $6500 for the original RED 18-50 Zoom. [...]

Tilzy.tv, a website dedicated to web content highlights EXIT: Stage Left in a recent article about Live events on the web. Sinohui and I discuss the live episode in episode 15 of the Bay Area Filmmakers Podcast.

In this previous entry, I talked about our simple lighting setup. We used Lowel Rifa lights for the actors and some fresnels for enhancing the background. Since I wrote that post, we have added locations to the show and have run into new challenges. When shooting in our original location we were challenged due to [...]

Panasonic has introduced new E-Series P2 cards. The cards are cheaper and faster than previous generations. The prices are several times lower than their equivalent A-series cards. http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prModelDetail?storeId=11301&catalogId=13251&itemId=342748&modelNo=Content04162009020504436&surfModel=Content04162009020504436 Maxell has also announced that it will be creating P2 cards. http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20090420/NY0091020042009-1.html I remember a new NAB’s ago that Hoodman also made such an announcement which never [...]

Hello bay area filmmakers.  I’ve spent the last week catching up on the web series “Break a Leg.” Check it out at Breakaleg.tv The first thing to note, is that this series was produced and stars a lot of top bay area talent.  I am extremely impressed with the writing of the series as well [...]

We’ve run the Bay Area Filmmakers site on a rough system based on a forum database. Now we are going to run it through a real blog engine. We will let anyone post comments, although they will be moderated to keep spam off. You user names and passwords will still work in the forum.