My friend, Derrick "One Man Studio" Fong, has just wrapped filming a behind-the-scenes documentary on Josie Ho's new horror flick, Dream Home. He's been working pretty much non-stop for the last few months, so seeing him out and about at the I Shot Hong Kong Networking Party was just awesome!
When we were talking about his upcoming mountain of editing work
(with which I can wholeheartedly sympathise), I remembered that there
was a famous director who got his start with a documentary on someone
else's film but I couldn't for the life of me remember who it was.
I found it this morning: it was George Lucas who did a behind-the-scenes documentary for Francis Ford Coppola's Rain People. The documentary, called Filmmaker, is just mindblowing. I have embedded the first of the four clips below.
Some cool notes: Coppola is only 29 years old in the film. The
glimpses that Lucas got in some of the tenser moments of the shoot are
dead on - it was ostensibly an argument about the use of a purse in a
scene, but it was so tinged with nervousness and insecurity and
internal conflict - brilliant. And for those indie filmmakers, take
inspiration : there's someone (not Coppola, but Coppola laughs about
it) who talks about doing a bit of guerilla filmmaking too. Sneaking
in shots seems to be a universal phenomena.
Barry Malkin, editor: "It doesn't matter what you thought you
wrote, and it doesn't matter what you thought you planned, all you got
is what you really got."
The LUMINA Web Series Official Trailer is online! And in glorious HD on YouTube, too. To make it easier for people with slower connections, I have embedded the normal quality version below but if you go into YouTube and click the HD button in the lower right corner of their player, you'll get the shiny widescreen HD version.
We are really THIS close to posting the trailer for LUMINA. While I was researching optimal compression methods for YouTube, I came across this hilarious video:
I came across this link to a great animated short called Kyle and Rosemary on Wil Wheaton's blog (yes... Wil Wheaton of Wesley Crusher fame, but I SWEAR I AM NOT A TREKKIE!) and I think it's beyond adorable.
P.S. In case you think I am slacking off, I am indeed working on the trailer!! Two more things to clean up and then I'll play with compression formats, then it'll be available. :D
I haven't been this excited about a Trek anything (TV show or movie) since The Search for Spock. No joke! And for those of you who haven't seen the latest trailer...
I WANT TO BLOW UP A PLANET!!! Next project, next project...
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