the Work

Cinematography. My chosen path. Lately been doing a fair amount of it, thankfully. Or...? The kind of things I've been shooting have been ultra-low budget bottom of the barrel kinds of things. You might think that in the absence of many of the resources that constitute "production value", your creative process might be freed up to innovate in some ways. That would only hold true if the project you were on was not trying to simulate the high production value of everything we see on tv and all that.

I like being the DP. It's a buzz for sure- taking pictures to tell a story, with some people to help you do it. You tell everyone what to do. It's all up to you. spotlight focus. Yes I like it. But it's exhausting. Especially on little tiny shoot like the one I did this weekend, called, "The Bird Tribes." I was the only professional on the set. The director assembled a group of quite talented people really, great costumes, art direction, all that, but not tons of pro set experience. On jobs like that, you have to think for everyone! It's pretty brutal. A totality.

In america, anyone can make a movie. And so many people want to. And because people need training on their way up to the majors, anyone can get semi-pros or better to work long hours for free. IT's a little kooky.