How to be a better director: 3 dead simple tips to make your life easier
Directing films is not a finite goal, it's a process and you never stop learning. Originally I had put these tips in my other article 4 and a half lessons I learned the hard way but I split them into two because there seemed to be two kinds of tips: The bigger picture...
The 5 Best Options for Rocío
I was talking to a friend of mine who is really bored with her job the other day and wants out. She told me that in her job she was mostly reading one of those BS lists like '10 reasons why Kanye West needs braces'. We joked that there should be a list for her best...
How to be a better director: 4 and a half lessons I learned the hard way
Directing films is not a finite goal, it's a process and you never stop learning. Here's four and a half lessons that I've learned the hard way over the years: 1 - Casting casting casting! I used to think something like... "I'm a good director, so I'll get a great...
Stuck? Figure out what you REALLY want to do with your life
Much of the advise you hear about success can be very useful to help you get what you want. But what if you don't know what you want? Maybe you have an idea like "I want to get more money" or "I want to work in entertainment". The problem is, vague goals produce vague...
Plans and Goals for 2014
I know, I know. We're almost in February. But my very first goal of the year was to set my other goals... mission accomplished! Here are my goals for this 2014: Professional goals: My professional goals are simple. I just finished my latest feature film script,...
Making an epic short film on a budget
Over the last year and a half I've been putting together an action packed sci-fi show for the web called 'Bionique', and we're doing it with a budget so low it's ridiculous. We made a Prologue Episode and a Trailer (that you can watch at the bottom of the article)....
Flagged as a spammer by Kickstarter
It was the third week of the Kickstarter Campaign for Bionique. We'd only raised around $900 and I was running out of ideas. I went again to the wildly successful VGHS Season 2 Kickstarter page to see if something jogged my mind... something did. I saw that they had...
Writing women, blacks or any other non ‘mainstream’ lead characters
In all of my scripts so far, my lead characters inevitably have all started as an ethnically ambiguous male in his mid twenties. You could attribute that to the fact that I am indeed, a 25 year old male and that I write from my own point of view. But maybe, just...
Why small Visual Effects houses are bankrupting giants like Rhythm & Hues and Digital Domain and why it’s a good thing
With all the fuss around the bankruptcies of Visual Effects giants Rhythm and Hues and Digital Domain in the last few months, the Visual Effects industry seems like a scary place right now. Yes, they did fire all those artists and yes, competition is raising and it...
How to organize your external drives automatically with File Atlas
Over the past six or seven months, I've been working a piece of software to make my life easier when I'm looking for an old file in my various external drives. It's very simple but it saves and incredible amount of time. The program is called File Atlas. I'm kind of a...