| Mfish 2009 production year-in-review! 2010 in like a lion! | January 27, 2010 |
This past year was so busy! But let's see, where did we leave off?
In April, I filmed scenes at Boston's historic Charles Street Inn for Laura Duggan's one-woman play "Mrs. Jack of Fenway Court" about the life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardener. That was very cool, I'll be posting some clips soon.
May started off right with my first ever 48 Hour Film Project where I met some very cool new collaborators. Our film Thief Jerky even got into the 48 Film Project's "Best of Boston" finals.
After helping on my last Cambridge Friends School theater production, the school asked me to film their first annual Music Festival and cut together a promotional video. I think it came out very well have a look! Since then I've been doing more promotional videos for the school's annual fundraiser. I expect to finish the third and final promo next month.
In June I finally got to work with two very cool local artists, filmmaker Chelsea Spear and actor Dennis Hurley. Chelsea and I had known each other only in passing for years, but now we actually got to collaborate on two shorts together, including shooting one on her old Fisher Price PXL-2000 which is freaking nifty.
Dennis Hurley made a crew call for Matt Martino's Drachen Recruitment Experiment and I had nothing to do that weekend, so I went for it and once again met some very cool collaborators! From there, Dennis put me in touch with Justin Fielding who was looking for a second DP for his indie Clerks-esque feature "Inventory". We filmed for 10 or 12 days over several weeks in the summer at Matress Warehouse in Norwell.
The fall of '09 got even cooler when I was hired to film a scavenger hunt for filmmaker Niq Brynolfson's bachelor party. While we were "scavenging" throughout Charlestown, we actually ran into the production of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's action comedy pic Knight and Day who had shut down a mile stretch of Rutherford Ave for an action sequence. But we didn't mind : )
Boston indie rockers Aloud were invited to play at the College Music Journal's annual CMJ fest in October and they asked me if we could do the multimedia Witness show that we did the November before. We rocked the Glasslands club in Brooklyn with a modified "Witness" show, and it was the first screening of my work in New York City ; )
October was also a return to Emerson College, for a weekend at least. Grad student Jim Lopezzo made a crew call for his masters' thesis, and I was feeling nostalgic so I offered my services as script supervisor. We filmed a short called "Fire Road" in the woods of Leominster, MA and Jim is in the process of submitting it to festivals. During that shoot, I met actor/writer Avi Love who told me about an animated film noir short he is directing and asked me if I could design the sound. Sure! Look for that later this year.
In November, Dennis Hurley contacted me saying he had written a script for a short film called "Once Again" and that he wanted me to direct. We filmed the first act just a week and a half ago and plan to resume filming in August after Dennis undergoes a major body-training regimen. This is a very cool project, and I'm thrilled to be at the helm.
Improv Asylum asked me to shoot their annual 24-hour No Rest for the Wicked Funny improv-a-thon fundraiser for Globe Santa which aired on TV38. Very neat.
Not to be out-done, the American Repertory Theater asked me to produce a master video of their highly popular Donkey Show which has been running since late August. I filmed four performances over New Year's weekend, the final four shows of the original cast, and I'm mixing in some additional footage shot by audience members and resident director Allegra Libonati. And even though I'm cutting three other projects right now, I plan to have the video done by the end of February.
Speaking of February, my brother CJ will be leaving for New Zealand soon and I'm trying to get him to finish the audio for his "Mountain Dew" experiment, and not to mention his new album for music I want to score the Walden Pond project we did in October -- a video I'll cut for him as a gift while he's away. I'm gonna miss him ) ;
Oh yeah, I'll also finish the FX stuff for Airestar but it'll have to wait till after February.
As for the future... well... let me sum up: a screenwriting merger, a couple radio dramas and in case you're wondering why my portfolio hasn't been updated since June, it's because I'm putting all my web resources and time into re-vamping the site. It will be worth the wait.
No rest for the wicked indeed.
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| A busy winter it was! Improv, theatre, film and the future! Looks to be an even busier Spring! | March 20, 2009 |
Hello folks! Lots of stuff to cover!
First off, Happy First Day of Spring! How was your Winter? Mine was good : ) I had another screening at this year's Doc Kountze Film Festival where I screened my Nine Inch Nails Ghosts 22 video as well as the Gabe Dixon Band's "Till You're Gone" human piano video. Both were well-received!
I've been taking improv classes at Boston's premiere comedy club Improv Asylum and it's freaking fantastic. I also shot a dry run of a game show pilot that the guys at IA are creating. We plan to film a real produced pilot sometime in the next couple months when new soundstages open in South Boston.
I designed and constructed a set for a production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Cambridge Friends School - the sixth show I've worked on at the school with my friend Arika, who then asked if I'd also do the sound design, so I obliged : )
I've been taking classes at the Harvard Extension School one of which is studying productions at the American Repertory Theatre so I've been hanging out there a lot : ) Cheryl Turski, a dance instructor at the A.R.T. Institute asked me to film her class performing a few dance numbers including "It's Oh So Quiet" and "Thriller" and it was awesome. Hopefully I can show you those videos later. In the meantime check out this holiday dance video I did for Cheryl at Christmas!
I also helped with production design on a senior thesis film at MassArt. We shot at a HoJo's in the Fenway (I didn't even know there was a HoJo's in the Fenway) and then the lighting studio at the school (the same place I AD'd this music video. Ah memories.)
Anywho... I'm prepping three shoots for the Spring, the long overdue "Steamhander", a new music video for Aloud's "Battle of Love", and dramatic film interludes for a one-woman play about Isabella Stewart Gardener.
And I know I've been saying this a while, but a lot more media and additions to the website are on the horizon... soon...
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| Aloud concert rocks the Back Bay! "Steam" train gaining speed! Mfish revving up for 2009! | December 1, 2008 |
Thanks to all who came and coughed up 12 bucks for the Aloud concert on November 18th! It was freaking awesome! The media projection went swimmingly. I put up screenshots from the films that I made for the show, so have a look! (images may take a second to load) And I'll have the complete films up in a few weeks. Also thanks to Mike Pecci, Kristin Osiecki, Timothy Scholl and Erin Bowser for contributing their work to the show. Great job everyone!
Next. Omar Robinson and I are ramping up production on Steamhander, shooting an hours d'oeuvre to the film; a parody 1950's commercial that will "sponsor" Steamhander. And barring an act of God, Olivia Rizzo and JP Sarro will be cast in this retro gem which we plan to shoot some time over the next week.
And what have we in store for the New Year? Oh, you'll be glad you asked. All kinds of never-before-webbed Mfish media including my drug documentary Candyflip as well as a crap load of my best shorts! (that didn't quite come out right). All will be available in Flash, Quicktime and not to mention... your iPod! And more stuff! So keep your eyes on the grindstone for the Mfish media overhaul this January...
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