Photo Credit: Chance Crail, who was on set with me as cinematographer. These are some pictures from my dance shoot in Cossitt that helped tie together all three of my film’s characters. Using the camera equipment we had was incredible. We are finally finished with our blocks at this point, and get to enjoy a …
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Hell Week
Image by Mackenzie Ross I was going to title this post something cute like “The 12 Days of Editing”, but I think this is a more deserving title. The editing room resembles my room more so than my actual room. I think I have more food around the desktop computer than I do in …
Focusing On What Goes Right
I feel that this quotation sums up shooting week very well. This post was actually from before this week began. I really love having an audience, but I hate getting on stage. This whole week we have been preparing and revising our pitches for Rocky Mountain PBS last Wednesday. I should have written last Wednesday, …
I’m trying to love suffering
MICHAEL BRADLEY, US midfielder “This will be a World Cup where teams that do well will suffer. We want to be the team that can suffer the most” It is so seductively easy to fail in filmmaking. I mean, it’s practically like the process begs you to fail …
Baby do you love me?
Yesterday was my longest day at InsideOut. I came in at 11am and Eric gave me a ton of random tasks to do. One of the tasks involved putting bills into envelopes and when I looked at the costs for running and managing InsideOut, it was interesting to see what most people don’t take into …
The Fly on the wall and the Artists that are very much present
Filmmaking classes are the best opportunity to play lots of foosball. It’s funny– so many creative powerhouse studios provide game rooms to employees, because when you are involved in Film, you’re living there. In that, if you’re editing a film, you live in the editing room. Every day at break, whether I was tired, frustrated, …
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Movies on Movies and BACA
Hello all CC blog readers, whether seasoned or new, thanks for tuning in. My name is Tom and I am a fellow student with Angela Kong in the Documentary Film Institute class. Angela already has told quite a bit alluding to our externship experiences, but I just want to extend a quick background about the …
An Outside Look into InsideOut
Yesterday was my first day for my externship at InsideOut, a LGBT youth services center in downtown Colorado Springs. I met Eric Pizana and Ashley and in their office they were writing grants to local organizations, asking them if they would be able to provide any food or money for InsideOut. Eric gave me a …
Ecological Restoration Week 1
Well, the first week of Ecological Restoration just ended! We have two professors, Marion Hourdequin, a philosophy professor from Colorado College, and David Havlick, her husband, a geography professor from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. We’ve already read a lot of material, from ecological articles trying to pin down a technical definition of “ecological …
GS 554 — Contemporary Issues: Personal Experiences of Ascent and Immersion
Here are some resources that came up in class today: www.amazwi-voicesofwomen.com — Go to Archive www.cas.org.za — Go to Gallery, Pick Theme www.lesleenelson.com — Go to Memory Cloths www.artisthelp.wisc.edu www.veteranprintproject.com
