11.26.2013

BSI vs the War Doctor


We discuss The Day of the Doctor.

I think you can actually hear my opinion of the episode changing as we talk.

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11.24.2013

Tonight's Sky

The sky at sunset as we were leaving Scouts tonight:


Divine Mercy Church


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My WEBELOS

11.23.2013

Hollywood Reporter: 2013 Producers Roundtable

Movies in 2013

1. Young Adult
2. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
3. Gosford Park
4. The Guard
5. Battle Beyond the Stars
6. Almost Famous
7. Ice Age: Continental Drift
8. G.I. Joe The Movie
9. The Rundown
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
12. Oz, the Great and Powerful
13. The Avengers
14. Captain America: The First Avenger
15. Argo
16. The Hobbit
17. Stick
18. Heat
19. The Goonies
20. The Bay
21. Jurassic Park 3D
22. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
23. Iron Man Three
24. Zero Dark Thirty
25. Django Unchained
26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
27. White Lightning
  
28. Prince of the City  
29. 2012  
30. Dredd  
31. Man of Steel  
32. The American  
33. Pitch Perfect  
34. Monsters University  
35. Black Rain  
36. Gator
37. Centurion  
38. Down Terrace  
39. Kill List 
40.  The Thieves
41. The Puffy Chair 
42. The Do-Deca-Pentathalon 
43. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 
44. Godzilla Raids Again
45. Godzilla vs The Thing aka Mothra Vs. Godzilla
46. Ted
47. Peter Pan
48. Pacific Rim
49. Ghidorah The Three-Headed Monster
50. Godzilla vs Monster Zero aka Invasion of Astro-Monster
51. Chronicle
52. Moonrise Kingdom
53. The Spanish Prisoner
54. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
55. Gangster Squad
56. Seven Psychopaths
57. The Sweeney
58. Remember the Titans
59. X2
60. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
61. Smurfs 2
62. Killing Them Softly
63. Parker
64. The Lavender Hill Mob
65. Lincoln
66. X-Men
67. 42 
68. Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters
69. Batman: The Movie (1966) 
70. Ali 
71. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension
72. Skyfall 
73. In The Loop 
74. Safe House 
75. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 
76. Thor 
77. The Wizard of Oz (Imax - 3D) 
78. Dr. No 
79. The Last Stand 
80. Raffles 
81. It Came From Outer Space 
82. Horror of Dracula 
83. Smokey & The Bandit 
84. Ghostbusters 
85. Thor: The Dark World 
86. Thunderbolt & Lightfoot

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11.18.2013

BSI Comics Podcast: Thor 2 Discussion

White Rabbit Trailer

Trailers for the movie White Rabbit which I worked on last year:




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Hollywood Reporter: 2013 Cinematographers Roundtable

Weird Reward Sign In The French Quarter


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Bedtime Read

Last night's read with the monkey before bed:


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11.17.2013

Hollywood: A Celebration of American Silent Film


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Cinema Europe

Cinema Europe is a documentary series about the history of film in Europe.

Found through Cinephilia & Beyond:












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Moving Pieces: Sergio Leone's Duel

A video essay I found:

Moving Pieces - Sergio Leone's Duel from Matthias Stork on Vimeo.

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Editing: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Final Duel

BAFTA Guru: Ron Howard: A Life in Pictures

Jackson Square

We just went and chilled out in Jackson Square for awhile:


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Walking Through The French Quarter

Armstrong Park

11.16.2013

Point Blank

11.14.2013

Hollywood Reporter: Directors Roundtable 20134

11.11.2013

What Does The Production Office Do?

I get asked all the time what do I do. I tell them I work in Film & TV in the production office, and clearly there is no real understanding what we do. Lots of time, our own crew doesn't understand what we do. I always compare us to Logistics & Support in the military.

The office is usually made up of a Production Coordinator, APOC (Assistant Production Coordinator), Production Secretary, and an Office Production Assistant. There are variations on this of course. On larger shows and episodic TV there will usually be a Travel Coordinator whose only job is to handle travel and hotels for the cast and guest stars. And yes, it is a full time job.

The Production Coordinator is the boss when it comes to the office. He or she is the one who usually hires the rest of the office staff. The Coordinator is also usually someone who works regularly with the UPM (Unit Production Manager) or Production Supervisor. The coordinator will divide up who is doing what in the office. He or she also is usually brought in early to help find office and stage space.

The APOC (my current job) is second on the list. APOC duties overlap with the coordinators a lot of time. Between the Coordinator and the APOC they order the gear and equipment for the various departments. The two also handle getting contracts ready for actors and working on the Production Report which is a record of everything that happened on a each day of shooting.

The Production Secretary usually handles putting together the Crew List, Vendor List, and Files for a production office. Sometimes they will be the first one in and handle getting copies of all the nightly paperwork to Accounting and to others in the production office.

Production Assistants do all the work you might think they do. They do the runs to and from set and to vendors. They do all the shopping for the office. They handle the massive amount of mail and packages coming into and out of the office. The PA's will also usually handle putting together the sides each night for set in the morning (sides are the scenes that are just working the next next day - it is a way for cast and crew to have what they need script wise without carrying around a whole script all day).

Most of our jobs overlap. Depending on how long the crew has worked together, jobs might be spread out more. The office staff usually comes in to work right after the accounting crew starts. A PA or Production Secretary will usually be on until Accounting is done. I know as a PA and Production Secretary there were times I was the last person to leave the production.

We handle all the paperwork the crew needs to run on and the studio demands from us. All the emails sent out come from the production office. It is a paperwork heavy job, but it is also a job that allows you to learn what it takes to run a show and what each department does and needs.

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11.10.2013

Movies in 2013

1. Young Adult
2. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
3. Gosford Park
4. The Guard
5. Battle Beyond the Stars
6. Almost Famous
7. Ice Age: Continental Drift
8. G.I. Joe The Movie
9. The Rundown
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
12. Oz, the Great and Powerful
13. The Avengers
14. Captain America: The First Avenger
15. Argo
16. The Hobbit
17. Stick
18. Heat
19. The Goonies
20. The Bay
21. Jurassic Park 3D
22. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
23. Iron Man Three
24. Zero Dark Thirty
25. Django Unchained
26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
27. White Lightning
  
28. Prince of the City  
29. 2012  
30. Dredd  
31. Man of Steel  
32. The American  
33. Pitch Perfect  
34. Monsters University  
35. Black Rain  
36. Gator
37. Centurion  
38. Down Terrace  
39. Kill List 
40.  The Thieves
41. The Puffy Chair 
42. The Do-Deca-Pentathalon 
43. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 
44. Godzilla Raids Again
45. Godzilla vs The Thing aka Mothra Vs. Godzilla
46. Ted
47. Peter Pan
48. Pacific Rim
49. Ghidorah The Three-Headed Monster
50. Godzilla vs Monster Zero aka Invasion of Astro-Monster
51. Chronicle
52. Moonrise Kingdom
53. The Spanish Prisoner
54. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
55. Gangster Squad
56. Seven Psychopaths
57. The Sweeney
58. Remember the Titans
59. X2
60. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
61. Smurfs 2
62. Killing Them Softly
63. Parker
64. The Lavender Hill Mob
65. Lincoln
66. X-Men
67. 42 
68. Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters
69. Batman: The Movie (1966) 
70. Ali 
71. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension
72. Skyfall 
73. In The Loop 
74. Safe House 
75. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 
76. Thor 
77. The Wizard of Oz (Imax - 3D) 
78. Dr. No 
79. The Last Stand 
80. Raffles 
81. It Came From Outer Space 
82. Horror of Dracula 
83. Smokey & The Bandit 
84. Ghostbusters 
85. Thor: The Dark World

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Camping At Fontainbleau State Park

I had a great time camping. I am ready to go again.

Our home:






Compass:


Raccoon Track:



More Tracks:



Campfire:









Miscellaneous pics:












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11.06.2013

The Hollywood Reporter: Full Uncensored Writers Roundtable

September 1, 1930 by W.H. Auden

September 1, 1939
By W.H. Auden

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.

Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven the culture mad,
Find what occured at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

The windliest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and eachm an
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.

From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
"I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,"
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.


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Today's Fortune


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Books in 2013

1. L.A. Rex    
2. Doctor No    
3. A Stab in the Dark  
4. Eight Million Ways to Die
5. Screenwriters' Masterclass    
6. The Monuments Men  
7. Glitz
8. Barrier Island
9. The Brass Cupcake
10. The Mourner
11. When The Sacred Ginmill Closes
12. The Cuckoo's Calling
13. The Score
14. Out On The Cutting Edge

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11.04.2013

Christopher Doyle Masterclass

Leather Notebook

Awesome leather notebook my mom brought me back from her trip. She brought me two. I think she is trying to tell me something:


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Ava DuVernay - 2013 Film Independent Forum Keynote Address

Sometimes we need a kick in the butt. And I needed this one:



Found through Indiewire.

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From Out On The Cutting Edge

All Saints Day 2013

Got to take half a day with the monkey this past Friday and actually do what we are supposed to do in New Orleans on All Saints Day: visit and clean the graves of our loved ones.

I miss my Godfather. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him.

We also went tot he grave of the man who took over being my Godfather after Sig died, Fr. Des Crotty. For some reason someone put plastic flowers in his grave. I had to move those to another headstone.






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11.03.2013

David Lean

My love for David Lean comes from my mother and her love for Doctor Zhivago. I can't tell you how many times I watched that movie or parts of it growing up. And I always realized this was a great film.

I then remember her one day having me watch Bridge on the River Kwai. Another epic film. And this lead me to discovering Lawrence of Arabia on my own. I believe it was a day when my mom was asleep, and I realized this film was coming on TV. It sucked me in completely.

David Lean and His Dedicated Maniacs I found through Cinephilia & Beyond:



Other posts from Cinephilia & Beyond on David Lean.





Behind the Camera - Freddie Young from BSC on Vimeo.





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11.02.2013

Movies in 2013

1. Young Adult
2. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
3. Gosford Park
4. The Guard
5. Battle Beyond the Stars
6. Almost Famous
7. Ice Age: Continental Drift
8. G.I. Joe The Movie
9. The Rundown
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
12. Oz, the Great and Powerful
13. The Avengers
14. Captain America: The First Avenger
15. Argo
16. The Hobbit
17. Stick
18. Heat
19. The Goonies
20. The Bay
21. Jurassic Park 3D
22. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
23. Iron Man Three
24. Zero Dark Thirty
25. Django Unchained
26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
27. White Lightning
  
28. Prince of the City  
29. 2012  
30. Dredd  
31. Man of Steel  
32. The American  
33. Pitch Perfect  
34. Monsters University  
35. Black Rain  
36. Gator
37. Centurion  
38. Down Terrace  
39. Kill List 
40.  The Thieves
41. The Puffy Chair 
42. The Do-Deca-Pentathalon 
43. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 
44. Godzilla Raids Again
45. Godzilla vs The Thing aka Mothra Vs. Godzilla
46. Ted
47. Peter Pan
48. Pacific Rim
49. Ghidorah The Three-Headed Monster
50. Godzilla vs Monster Zero aka Invasion of Astro-Monster
51. Chronicle
52. Moonrise Kingdom
53. The Spanish Prisoner
54. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
55. Gangster Squad
56. Seven Psychopaths
57. The Sweeney
58. Remember the Titans
59. X2
60. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
61. Smurfs 2
62. Killing Them Softly
63. Parker
64. The Lavender Hill Mob
65. Lincoln
66. X-Men
67. 42 
68. Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters
69. Batman: The Movie (1966) 
70. Ali 
71. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension
72. Skyfall 
73. In The Loop 
74. Safe House 
75. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 
76. Thor 
77. The Wizard of Oz (Imax - 3D) 
78. Dr. No 
79. The Last Stand 
80. Raffles 
81. It Came From Outer Space 
82. Horror of Dracula 
83. Smokey & The Bandit 
84. Ghostbusters

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