Author Archives: drdzoe

Another 48 Hour Film Project.  Here’s “Quietus”, made on the weekend of May 2-4, 2014: The required elements: Silent movie, an event planner named Sam or Samuel Canterbury, an envelope, the line “You can trust me.” I directed, but I … Continue reading →

Julie and I watched “The Haunting” the other night.  This is an excellent haunted house movie made in the late 60’s.  One thing that caught my eye was the interesting distortions in the movie and the way that everything seems … Continue reading →

This post includes information from my previous post on what I’m reading, the Movie Edition.  But this one organizes books by topic.  It also includes only my favorites of the books I’ve read on making movies.  Consider this my recommended … Continue reading →

I’m taking weekend classes this month on film production.  This weekend was all about scriptwriting.  I had a good time, though have kind of mixed feelings about what I learned. As part of the class, we had a short time … Continue reading →

I love getting out the camera and experimenting with stuff.  Today: what’s the effect on depth-of-field and apparent closeness of changing the focal length of the lens?  There’s strong implications on filming here. First off, on apparent closeness.  I’ve been … Continue reading →

Can’t believe I haven’t added this here.  Anyway, this is a couple months old now, but back in November I participated in the National Film Challenge.  In this, we made a movie in three days, including writing the script, doing … Continue reading →

I am proud to announce that here is the first movie by Crimes of the Art Productions.  It’s called “Shutdown,” and it’s my satirical take on recent political events. It stars Donald R. Cook and Caitlin Williams.  Amy Davis directed and … Continue reading →

As I mentioned, I’ve started working on some video projects.  In preparing for this, I’ve read a lot of books lately about all aspects of making movies.  Here’s a special edition of What I’ve Been Reading that covers those books. … Continue reading →

My latest obsession these past few months has been making movies. It really started when I took the summer of 2011 off from work, in what I called my pretirement summer.  Among the things that I did that summer was … Continue reading →

Sheesh, it’s been almost a year since I’ve updated the reading list.  Let’s see what I can do… Ebooks on iPad: - The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.  If you paid much attention to the election, you’ve heard of … Continue reading →