Category: Filmmaking

Fine Arts Film Festival 2023

June 8, 2023

My film, Photo Center, will be shown online at the Fine Arts Film Festival in Venice, CA on June 15-22. I am so honored to be selected for this prestigious festival! Entry to the festival is $15. You can browse the selection of films in the festival catalog: [...]

Documentary

Kubrick vs Lynch: A ChatGPT Perspective

April 17, 2023

I’m letting ChatGPT have a swing at today’s blog post. I decided to give the technology a crack at comparing my two favorite directors.(I also found a Midjourney image of a theater designed by Kubrick and Lynch.) My request to ChatGPT: “Write a blog post comparing the films of Stanley Kubrick to the films of [...]

Filmmaking

Good Article About a Dumb Idea

January 3, 2023

I am a super-fan of 24fps filmmaking. For the life of me, I cannot understand why filmmakers such as Ang Lee and James Cameron keep trying to push higher frame rates on the viewing public. Or why high end television manufacturers sell screens with high frame rate turned on by default. (I don’t know how [...]

Filmmaking

Santa Cruz

August 7, 2022

Earlier this summer, Aaron and I traveled to Santa Cruz to capture some drone shots at golden hour. I brought along my Sigma fp and gimbal to film some 4K footage. I was also eager to try out the stereo microphone that I own to add to the verisimilitude of the scene. I made a [...]

I’m Certifiably Certified!

August 6, 2022

Well, it took about six months, many emails, and a lot of phone calls with my advisor but I’ve finally received the three certificates in filmmaking that I’ve earned at CCSF. I’m especially proud of the Directing and Cinematography certificates. I have one final required class which I’m taking in the upcoming semester and I’ll [...]

Filmmaking

Embarcadero

May 24, 2022

(2022) Here is a short film I made to test the capabilities of my new Sigma fp camera. I took my camera and my 28mm and 85mm Pentax lenses down to the San Francisco waterfront for a walk. I filmed whatever looked interesting with an eye toward testing the Sigma fp’s ability to capture color [...]

Photo Center

May 18, 2022

(2022) A profile of the film photographer Rey Cayetano Jr. and the Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco, California. As a lifelong lover of film photography, I was eager to capture the process in my documentary. I am fortunate that San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department provides the Harvey Milk Photo Center for San [...]

Overlord Is Watching You

December 5, 2021

Another throwback video from early film school. I wrote and lensed this sci-fi scene for one of my first film classes. Classic! [...]

Narrative

Moon Man

November 6, 2021

For my advanced cinematography class, my film crew and I created and homage to the original science fiction film. [...]

The Photo Album

June 17, 2021

(1986) A mother shares a special time with her daughters. [...]