7/07/09 Meeting With A Editor

I've got so many projects I want to have done by the end of the year that I'm getting the aid of another editor to help me out. Her name is Bren Allison-Pettingill and I've worked with her on several other projects most recently as a director of photographer on her feature film 6 DEGREES OF DESPERATION, a teen comedy. Since she edited that film I've decided to work with her to continue putting together episodes of the DIARY OF A FILMMAKER series while I focus on my short films ALONE... and MISS KITTY & ME with my other editor Daniel Hirsh.

Allison-Pettingill is a promising editor who has edited several of her own projects in addition to her feature film so I am confident that she will be able to jump right into the DIARY OF A FILMMAKER series with no problems. In addition to the DIARY OF A FILMMAKER series I hope to work with her on several of my smaller productions which have been sitting on a shelf for quite some time which includes the second episode of the CITY GARDEN series THE OLD WOMAN IN THE PARK and Safaa Sammander's short film MY SISTER MADGE to name a few.

I'll know more when the time comes and will report it here first when they are released for the public consumption.

6/11/09 Meeting the Music Supervisor

Met with my music supervisor Sacha Dzuba last night to go over some preliminaries for HOUSE OF SECRETS. Dzuba is part of the band The Julia Dream but he's also a very talented composer who contributed to the score for JACK O'LANTERN and some of my early photo gallery films. He's also composed music for several short films and even a full score for a children's theatre play.

For HOUSE OF SECRETS I need a variety of band music and original score and he's the one I trust to be able to bring me a variety of stuff to choice from (if not compose something original himself). Right now I have someone else on board to score the film (Kevin McKiney who has scored CITY GARDEN for me so far) but I wanted to work with Dzuba again and this was one of the best ways to do so.

Our meeting was very production in that we discussed the four songs by bands that I thing the film needs and we listened to a lot of different genres of music so that he could get a better feel of the types of songs that I'm looking for. I even came to the conclusion that I need to use one of The ulia Dream's song as my End Titles song.

Working on this just means I'm getting that much closer to finishing the film (even though I still have a very long ways to go).