August 14, 2008
It’s official, I’ve completed and screened my film for the 48HOUR FILM PROJECT here in Miami. Let me say that it was an exhausting experience, but a great experience. It’s been a truly test of skills and creativity to see whether or not I was able to pull off such a task within 48 hours. If you want to know more about the festival and contest, check out: 48HOUR FILM PROJECT.
But honestly, this is a great lesson in developing and really thinking things through to get the proper quality footage’s. Organization is the key. And it’s really hard when you have to depend on yourself.
What was really interesting was that I ended up doing the Robert Rodriguez thing. Being the one man - do it all thing. Not only did I have to write the script, organize the production, manned the camera, edit the footages, I even had to score the tracks.
While the end product sounded fairly simple, just tinkering on the piano for hours drove me nuts. Oh btw, editing footages and doing post production on a laptop is definitely a suck. I need to upgrade… but then again, I did the best that I could with what I had.
More importantly, regardless of what some people might think or say of the finished product - I’m actually quite proud of the short film I made. Considering the limited resources and time I had. And in a way, it was nice to prove that I can make a film from start to finish. Let’s just hope I can apply that to a featured film.
You are welcome watch the clip, along with the Behind The Scenes. » No James Dean
(If you would, leave a comment about the film!)
Filed under: Film and Television, News — Nick @ 10:03 pm
April 2, 2008
Just launched recently, I’m pretty impressed with the WordPress Blog CMS. What’s really unique about this - is that it’s really just another CMS system with skinnable templates and custom built plugins.
The challenge for me, of course, was being able to handle PHP coding. I’m Microsoft - classic ASP and .NET baby! Boo all you want. That’s where I started and that’s probably where I’ll keep going.
But working inside of WordPress and seeing the intricate coding that has been developed and written over the years, I was really quite impressed with it. So much impressed, I’m wondering why isn’t there one for Microsoft guys like myself. Ok, I know - but lets not go there.
Anyway, I was hired by this company to re-design their blog system. Namely, from Blogger.com and take it over to the WordPress platform. Orignially they were looking at SquareSpace.com.
Even though SquareSpace was well developed - I felt that it was in the same sense, like Blogger. It didn’t give the client (users) total control over their entire site - namely, not a true CMS.
So after researching their company, or rather trying to identify what they are, I was able to come up with 2 designs for their liking.
Afterwards, my feelings are that I’m totally hooked on WordPress. This wasn’t my first encounter working with WordPress. This was however, my first indepth understanding of how the components of WordPress functioned.
Yeah, I’m definitely hooked. And I’ll be making my own site migration over sooner or later.
Filed under: Tech, News — Nick @ 2:26 am
Let’s Get Ready to RUUUUUUM… BUM!
March 22, 2008
With the successful launch party for RUM BUM at the Gryphon Night Club for Bacardi’s latest endeavour to sponsor a Daytona Prototype at the Miami Grand Prix - I was quite surprise by the liking of many people for the initial “teaser” site that I had created.
Here’s the kicker, I spent nearly 65 hours in a course of 4 days to put this temp site together - with no content. So it was kind of hard to design something when there’s nothing. But luckily I pushed hard enough to get what I need to get this up and running for the guys.
In addition, the media press coverage last night was quite overwhelming for the racing team and the unveiling of the new car. Of course, the temporary site was “secretly” launch just 2 days prior and it has already received 942 unique visitors - by word of mouth.
I’m curious to see what the result will be over the weekend, and once again after the media put their 2 cents in on the event. I could only imagine when I kick the real version of the site into full throttle. Can we say - NATIONAL COVERAGE!?
Filed under: Film and Television, News — Nick @ 11:08 pm
Search:
Categories:
Archives:
- August 2009
- May 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- November 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
Bookmarks:
