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 [...]

It’s awards time! For the second year, NewTeeVee and Tubefilter are sponsoring the Streamy Awards. This is the year of EXIT: Stage Left. There are several categories that I think would fit very well with the streamy awards. Take a moment to watch all of season 1: To vote please visit the Public Submissions Page [...]

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.

July 25th, 2009.  On a warm July night, EXIT: Stage Left, a web series featuring the story of an off-Broadway theater company and their struggle to put on a play, streamed live to the world.  While many Television shows in the past such as ER, Cheers, and others have done a live episodes, this is [...]

EXIT Stage Left will be performed live in front of a studio audience and over the internet. The event will be followed by a live Q and A with the cast and crew. COUNTDOWN BEGINS AT 6:00PM, LIVE SHOW BEGINS AT 7:00PM

The Season 1 Finale of EXIT Stage Left will be streamed LIVE on the internet with a live studio audience. The Scripted show, which I am a producer and Director of Photography, will stream live on the internet at 7:00PM on Thursday June 25th. See Tubefilter for their writeup! Below is the official press release: [...]

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 [...]

We at EXIT Stage Left are now using Prompter People LED lights on our shoots. These LED lights come in 2 main sizes, which put out light similar to 1K and 500watt lights at a fraction of the power. We also use the on-board light for our documentary filmmaker. I highly recommend you go and [...]

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 [...]

This post was originally posted at Backstage at the Lowry Theater Company. Backstage. What really does that mean? Will we share all of our secrets? Will we offer just a glimpse? Or will it be somewhere in between? I suspect there are certain things that we just cannot tell you about during the run of [...]