Fire-Wired Blog

I am a man who takes pride in his efficiency. In August when I edited my Farm Crawl video together, it took me about 7 hours. I sat down at 9 am and started picking out my soundbites, put it all together, wrote a couple songs for score music, and by the time I finalized it the clock said 4pm. This month the same thing deal happened when I put together my BfBl Harvest Party video , only it took me 5 hours. When I have a vision, and know my footage, I crush my projects.Yesterday I set my sights on a much loftier goal. Every morning when I'm eating breakfast and getting ready to start my day I think through what projects I'm working on. This week I've got two big projects to produce and a tight window to get them done. The travel show I co-produce, One Day Getaway , has an episode due on Nov 8, and the community interest show I occasionally produce, Oskaloosa Today , has an episode due on Nov 9. Well both projects have been shot and digitized, and all that remains is putt...

This past weekend I took part in an annual event I've been dying to do for years now; the 48 Hour Film Project . The premise is pretty simple. You form a team of filmmakers, Friday you pull a genre out of a hat, the 48 Hour organizers give you a line of dialogue, a character, and a prop and you have the next  48 hours to make your film.  I've been missing the boat on this deal for years and considering I have an unhealthy obsession with movies and multimedia... that's not cool. So the team I was so kindly invited to join, Team Mystery Box, pulled "Superhero" for our genre. Friday was sputtering brainstorm session and late night blitzkrieg writing session, Saturday was nonstop filming, and Sunday was putting it altogether. My roles were brainstorming , writing , music composition and minor production work and editing .  I don't want to spoil the film for you incase you see it but I will tell you it's called Side Effects  and it's about a guy...