Author Archives: drdzoe

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 →

For our last stop, we drove through South Carolina to North Carolina where we stopped for the night at Raleigh, visiting our last special guest star, Kate. I surprised her by showing up at her door in full-cowboy: We visited … Continue reading →

From New Orleans, our road trip took us across several of the Confederate states.  Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama to Florida to Alabama to Georgia. Wait – did you say Florida?  That’s not on the route. Well, yes.  But I … Continue reading →