‘A Drive by Shooting’ or ‘Monkeys at Your Heels’
For today it’s not lo-fi equipment I’ll be talking about. Today I’m going to tell you about Lo-fi talent. And luck. And the masses. And cheap accessible technology. Yesterday’s experiment was based on this lo-fi kick I’m on. (Illustration of how I held my camera to shoot through my car window) I asked myself what [...]
Teaching film making at the University of Washington
For the last week I have been teaching a course in documentary film making for a program called Climate Quest at the University of Washington. The goal is to take groups of high school students from all over Washington State through the process of preproduction, filming and post production, and help them make compelling short [...]
The forgotten parts
As we traveled to New Orleans we limited ourselves to secondary roads. On our way back after filming we would return using only Interstate roads. The contrast in personal experience with each set of rules would eventually be part of the film. Moving silently through the back roads of the country through towns such as [...]
