Thank you for not smoquing

Who knew there were so many types of filters. I spent the better part of an hour trying to understand all of the different camera filters.

so cranking up the gain makes everything look ultra-realistic and serious...i tried it out in my 'run n gun' (that's right i said gun) shoot but i don't think it quite worked out for me like i hoped.... "it did not have the effect Longshanks desired".

so i've been watching movies with this new 'eye', like i'm looking for how scenes are shot and lit and stuff like that and i just can't get over how much i like the look of James Cameron's the Terminator. Adam Greenberg was DP on the first and the second movies, but i think the look has a lot to do with James Cameron. It's got the same low angles; stuff getting crushed; realism; that Aliens has and Adam Greenberg wasn't DP on that one. I don't know if there's a name for that sort of conceptual look but i need to figure it out

GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

My goals...my goals...man I would love nothing more than to be a screenwriter. I mean, I am a screenwriter, but a successful one. James Cameron said that as soon as you shoot something and put your name on it, you're a director and the rest is just negotiating contracts. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jamescamer360500.html
So I guess, I kind of agree with that. I write movies, put my names on them, and now I'm just negotiating contracts (with zero success).

Sometimes, there are things in a movie that you just can't write. Sometimes there's not words for the way you know you want it to look and that's when I want to be behind the camera. I want to know how to take a script and translate it onto the screen in at least something similar to the way I saw it in my head. So, in short, this is my goal.
Christopher Nolan but with better hair.

Visual Compulsion

This is a promo picture from the first Terminator movie. I just think this picture is so perfect for what the movie is-the movie is uber 80s, ultra violent, and those sunglasses hide his eyes so you never quite know what's happening in that machine brain. A near-perfect film.



some inside art from The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King. I don't even know why I find this one compelling. After 7 books, something like 4200 pages (roughly), it's just awesome to see the Gunslinger so close.



An iranian woman protesting the despotic government in Iran. They don't quite know that their cause is hopeless and that's what gives me hope it might work. Onward muslim soldiers!