Piling up and directing a third time

So I'm going to be up all night tonight. I have a couple of essays to write and an entire book to read. Since being up late isn't an issue, I thought I'd spend a few minutes and drop a few lines about my recent happenings.

In my previous post I mentioned staying up to study for a French exam. I got a 96 percent. Très bien! I took another one last week, but I don't think I did as well on that one. School is hitting a really rough patch in general. A lot of my late semester projects have been piling up on me. It's part of the reason I'm staying up late tonight. It's entirely my fault for letting it all catch up on me instead of working steadily throughout the semester. But we all know that's just not the way I work.

I have been doing a lot of film work recently. In particular, there's a group of filmmakers that have been working together on a few projects and I'm glad for it. Chronologically, we worked on Brett Dellandre's Without a Cure: The Tony Novak Story, which I mentioned briefly in my last post. The film is a spiritual sequel to an old film we made called Homophobic Homosexuals. It is a mockumentary about a guy that discovers he's contracted a disease called "The Gay". Now, it may seem the film would be offensive, but I assure you it is not. The entire premise of the film is to show that homophobia is lame, and I think we did a great job of getting that across. We screened it in class and folks loved it. We're showing it at this year's ASU Filmmaker's Association Film Fesitval. Speaking of... shamless plug!



As DP (that's Director of Photography for you non-film geeks) for Brett's film, I used two camera operators because we were using two cameras and I wanted to see what was on each of them at all times. One of them is Wasef El-Kharouf and his was the next project I worked on. This guy is a visionary and a great filmmaker. I had a blast working on his film which is difficult to even describe. I'll try to get him to put it online for sharing with you all when he's done editing. But I want to thank him first for his excellent work as my camera operator, and secondly for letting me work on his interesting project.

This weekend, I shoot my third directorial effort, a slapstick comedy titled For Hire. I'll post a synopsis and update on my next post. I'm really nervous because I'm not comically inclined as a filmmaker so this will be a challenge to complete. Okay, the sleepiness is kicking in so I'm going to go back to writing my essays. Will check back in soon.

P.S. Since Twitter seems to be all the rage now, and I've been a user since very early in it's lifetime, I'll whore my page out a bit.