Filmmaking is all about telling stories visually. In order to tell a proper story, there are some prerequisites. No. Having a sweet HDSLR rig isn’t one of them. The first thing you need to make a film is a story. The next thing you need is to know that story inside out and upside down. Know your characters. Know their personalities, their habbits, their vices, their hobbies, their desires, their fears. You should know what a character...

I’m as much of a camera nut as the next filmmaker, and I am ecstatic about the giant leaps that camera technology has been making of late. Like so many others, I’m on the Amazon.com waiting list for two Canon 7D bodies, and they just can’t get here fast enough. But I have been noticing a trend in the independent film community lately. It seems that the most important thing to filmmakers theses days is the latest, greatest...

With the recent acting debut of my canine companion Bogey, I decided to revisit the script I wrote for her. It is quite amazing how different a script reads after you haven’t set eyes on it in over a year. Maybe it’s because I’m reading it with fresh eyes, or maybe it’s because I have learned more about writing since last July. Probably a bit of both. The biggest thing that I noticed when I reread the script was the...