Watchmen Have Style … That is, One Fighting Style

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 [...]

Rough Cut

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, [...]

Rewriting Times Three

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 [...]

The Aftermath

It’s about 20 hours later. Not quite a full day after filming The Price of Fighting, and I was wrong yesterday about feeling like I got hit by a truck. I feel like I got hit by a 747.
Everything aches like a mofo and I can barely get out of bed and in front of [...]

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