We have finally agreed on a concept…thank god, and It’s good! But how can we make it better? Tik tok tik tok…

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Genre: Holiday Film
Character Name: James Switzer
Profession: Electrician
Prop: a Plate
Line of dialogue: Just remember, you didn’t here it from me.

So this is what we are working with. We have been brain storming for the last 4 hours and have a handful of good ideas but not agreed on a single one yet. Fun times. Who ever said this was easy? More to come.

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Never thought I would want to do another one of these insane 48 hour films competitions but I have this little problem where I tend to say “Yes” to just about every oportunity that comes a knocken.  Director Tommaso Cardile from Milano Italy has decided to wrangle a crew from LA and NY to meet up and compete in the in Las Vegas (of all places) 48 hour film competition.  I just got here, and so far so good.  We have DP (yours truley) we are shooting on a EX1 with Letus Extreme 35mm adaptor (thanks to Daniel Dacian) and a set of my Zeiss ZF master primes…I am doing some test now and I really like what I am seeing.  I decided to not shoot on RED this go around due loss of time in Post production and time is the name of the game.  With the EX1 I can shoot native 1080 and Tomasso can cut native and we deliver online in 1080…wonderful.  Locations…check.  We rented pretty impressive penthouse looking condo that over looks the strip, and for cheap too! We are waiting now on the talent to come in from LA and in about 30 minutes we are heading to the 48 HQ to pick up our assignment.  I probably wont have any time to blog along the way but I will share our results as of this sunday we will have a completed film.  Over and out.

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My friend Patrick Sarni came to visit New York City a few weeks ago and with a mission to write and produce a sketch in 48 hours.  As a result, I present to you “The Borough”, a comedic spoof on reality TV show S@&!  This script was originally written for an all girl cast but when that fell through, Sarni made a re write the evening before and ended up casting the crew.  Enjoy.

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Gotham Guerrilla has officially had 5,000 visitors, thanks for stopping in and come back soon cause we have lots of big monumental announcements to make and new developments cooking in the oven that I plan to announce here 1st.

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Spoke with Viktor Björk, the managing director from Ikonoskop today in regards to the status of their new creation, the a-cam dII. Viktor sounded quite positive about the progress and has reported over 28 people working tightly around the clock to meet the new deadlines, now slated for April.  I have witnessed a variety of different technological developments over the years and usually they tend to suffer the most time in the home stretch dealing with all the countless final details, one of which they are working out now is power management. For my guerrilla film making purposes, I need this rig to boot within seconds. Viktor continued to report an overwhelming amount of pre-orders since the announcement at IBC last September and If you order one today you are looking at a June/July delivery. This all sounds too familiar. (read: RED launch) Good luck wrapping things up Ikonoskop. Hit the jump for the latest specs and images on the Ikonoskop a-cam dII.  UPDATE: the 1st deliver of this camera series Zero is in question at the moment although reports on the IKONOSKOP forum suggest February.  I will update soon.  Read more

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I have been working on some concepts for a PSA that I would like to do and through my research I came across this really beautiful public service announcement to promote awareness in Burma.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main

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My neighbor Ion Bloom, known for his “Crimson Workflow” just returned from his last “Shot on RED” gig that he was technician on and shared some his experience over at reduser.net.

We shot over 30 interviews and countless re-enactment scenes in six different cities. Awesome crew, producers, dp, and director. First commercial I’ve done where the crew bonded like a feature. In any case, you can check out the docs here: http://dreams.honda.com/videos/failure-the-secret-to-success/

Its refreshing to see a big name like Honda spend their money funding something inspirational beyond just selling cars. I felt the series was well produced across the board from direction to the cinematography, nice music choices as well. You decide for youself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/business/media/12adcol.html?_r=2

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Joe Herbert for his spot “Free Doritos”? Not exactly who I thought it would be. I am not going to waste time talking about this spot but I will say keep your eyes peeled for commercial competitions if your trying to get your foot in that door, chances are you can do better then this.

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