Action director, Screen-Fighting, action direction, editing, fight choreography, stunt coordination, stunt-fighting
Avatar is everything I expected from a James Cameron big-budget action-packed sci-fi epic — and more.
I’m most pleased that he’s maintained his own directing style. Rather than adopt the most annoying trend of vomit-inducing handheld camerawork and seizure-sparking rapid-fire editing, Cameron sticks with what made him the most successful action-movie filmmaker on the planet: imaginative [...]
My screen-fighting demo reel will be posted shortly.
I’ve finished editing it and just awaiting my highly-talented music composer friend to record a score for it. Once that’s done, you’ll get to view it right here at ScreenWarrior.com.
I just watched Watchmen and I’m glad to see that director Zack Snyder and the stunt crew went with a style that allowed the audience to actually see the action (i.e. not the epilepsy-inducing, shaky-camera fight scenes of The Dark Knight or The Bourne Ultimatum.)
Snyder also didn’t overplay the slow-motion editing too much as he [...]
Good news: me and my director, Leo, finished a rough cut of The Price of Fighting.
It is far from perfect (as it’s a rough cut), but our 5-minute action comedy got decent play among the cast. We did an impromptu screening for two of my co-stars and they laughed at the appropriate parts and said, [...]
One of the most enlightening things I’ve ever heard about filmmaking came from George Lucas:
There are three stages of writing: the first comes when you write the script; the second is when you’re filming; and the third is when you’re editing.
He probably wasn’t the first to say that. I mean, William Goldman said basically the [...]
Welcome to the blog of PATRICK VUONG: a stuntman specializing in film fighting and fight choreography. Here, you will find his blog about the pleasures and pains of fake fighting, get the latest news about his projects, and have access to his various demo reels.
