Storme Wood

The white stuff started falling about 7am this morning. OKC has already had over 20 inches this year. If it snows like this all day, we might double that total.

Check out these behind the scenes photos from the set of Paradise Recovered (ask me about the cat):

I was gathering stills for the upcoming launch of the Paradise Recovered website and I wanted to share a few:

I took a long walk in the snow and ice today (one of my favorite things in the whole wide world to do). I had my iPhone Camera with me and I took some pictures. My moment of zen was finding myself in the middle of a field of frozen grass breakers.

When we started Pre Production on Paradise Recovered, I hadn’t heard of the new en vogue term to describe films made with virtually no money, Micro-Budget. At the time, I was calling it a no-budget film. Truth is, it has a small budget. If my math skills don’t fail me, the budget for Paradise Recovered is about two tenths of one percent of the budget for Avatar. Or, as one friend so eloquently put it, most films have more money allotted for cocaine and hookers than we had for our entire film. But we got to shoot a film and that’s awesome. It’s just not that kind of movie.

We didn’t have much in the way of Craft Services, Transportation or Catering. We didn’t even have much in the way of Boom Operators, Grips or PAs. We had a small crew. The DP was often his own Gaffer and always his own Focus Puller. The AC was also a Grip as well as the Data Wrangler for the Red Camera. The Location Sound Mixer was also the Boom Operator. The Producer and Director also taped windows. Everyone pitched in. And it was fun. And we got great stuff. And hopefully, in the end, we’ll have a great film. One that everyone who worked so hard on it, few as we may have been, can be proud of.

So what kind of film is it? It’s a film with a lot of heart. Made with love. Made because it was a story that needed to be told. And these days, thanks to advances in the ways and means of filmmaking, you don’t need a lot of money to make that kind of a movie.

I’m currently working really hard editing Paradise Recovered, which we shot and I Directed this past summer. I downloaded Timelapse to check out on the iPhone and wallah! Watch me do the same things over and over. In other words, edit .

My Life as a Film Editor on 12seconds.tv

Check out my new demo reel and let me know what you think!

We’re currently in post-production on the feature film Paradise Recovered and are excited to see our listing for the film on IMDB!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1523979/

My first IMDB credit for Directing, yay!

Shooting Test footage for the film Paradise Recovered on 12seconds.tv

We broke out the Red for the first time today. Too cool. We were checking out how it did with just the natural light at one of our locations. Big thanks to David J. Neff for the location and for standing in for us today. We begin full on production for Paradise Recovered on Monday!

I am Producing and Directing my first feature film this summer. We’ll be shooting in Austin Texas and Bloomington Indiana and we’re gearing up to shoot right now (starting July 6th).

Paradise Recovered is a modern-day retelling of the parable of the Good Samaritan and a coming of age story about a young woman’s discovery of what it means to have faith. It was written by the very talented Andie Redwine who is also Producing.

Here’s how you can keep to date with everything that’s happening as we embark on this adventure.

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