John Q. Phats Entertainment

Gabe was able to work on Stuck a little bit and make it better.  I’m starting to get the ball rolling on Nice Guys Finish Last.  I’m going to try and get together with Chris and Caine sometime this week to film something for you guys.  But no more of this split screen shit.  Seriously, I’m tired of editing like that, I’m also tired of Chris moving the God damned beer right before the last freaking shot.
Gabe says that my audio sounds like a porno.  I’m glad he sees the direction I’m going with this.  When it comes to audio, I have absolutely no clue what the hell I’m doing.  I put the thingy on the end of the thingy, plug it in to the thingy, and then hang the thingy over the scene and pray that it works.  The main problem is, is that I’m picking up more then the audio from the actor or actors on screen.  I’m getting a lot of background noise.  I think I record with the levels to high. 
“Yeah, fuck it, red bars means it’s working……Right?”
Anyway, it needs some work.  I’ll probably film some tests this weekend.

I posted a new short.  I named it Stuck.  It didn’t have a title until like 30 seconds ago when I posted it.  Actually it’s just an experiment with some split screen stuff that we are working on.  It’s a fun concept.  As long as you keep the camera steady and nothing moves in the background, you can make two shots look like one.  I’m about to get a bit techy here, I apologize in advace.  All you have to do is lay one shot over the other and mask out the half of the shot on top that you don’t want.  And you can set keyframes to all of the points of the mask.  That’s all this is.  I actually think we screwed up a little bit on this one.  That light in the mirror flickers which leads to irregularities when you switch from one shot to the other.  You live and you learn I suppose.  I’m looking forward to doing something normal.  I’m tired of this not moving the camera bullshit.

Ever since I figured out that you can make two shots look like one, I’ve had sort of a hard on about the idea.  This short actually consists of 4 shots total.  This is just something we thought up on the spot.  I like stories that don’t really have an explanation because they don’t need one.  This is the shoot where God damn Chris moved the beer and made us shoot the entire thing all over again.  Bastard.  It actually wasn’t that bad.  Everyone knew what to do at this point, so all the shots went extremely fast.  We shot a little extra where Caine is screaming at Chris about moving the beer while doing an impression of Christian Bale yelling at that DP on the set of the new Terminator flick.  I might post that a little bit later.