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Guide To Making Short Films

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 22, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s a lot easier writing a bad short film script than a good one, and to act in a bad short film is something all aspiring actors do at one point in their lives, but it takes true talent to make something you consider brilliant, but is in actuality truly and incomprehensively bad. You’re in [...]

Singing Through Screenwriting

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 20, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Categories: screenplay, script, sing, singing, screenwriters, Kylie, Minogue, U2

The Audition

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 19, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Ah, the casting process. It’s kind of like waiting around in Hell’s foyer for an appointment with either Satan or one of his running mates. It’s warm, not hot, and you wait for longer than you anticipate. You think, well, it’s Satan, at the very least he’ll be punctual. Not so. Lucifer is neither punctual [...]

The Screening

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 17, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

The great screening took place last night at my apartment, with a select group of discreet individuals whose cinematic opinions are valued and rated among the highest in the world. Their feedback will be going toward changing the film from a caramel lump into a sculpture of sugary delight. Which, if you haven’t guessed by [...]

Sisyphean Subtitles

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 14, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

Subtitling a movie is pretty close, if not identical to, jabbing an ice pick repeatedly into your ocular cavity whilst listening to showtunes and eating your least favourite food. I say this without preamble because the last three days of my life has been devoted to the fine art of Dantean punishment. And as a [...]

I Love the Smell of Sundance In the Morning

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 25, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The natural thing happened: Everything that could go wrong, did. But somehow, we still have a film and we still have a shot at Sundance. All the cutting, subtitling, soundtrack…ing, and other sundry details amount to an insanely long time in the chair (I’ve been in mine now for going on twelve hours). My brain [...]

13 Months of Sunshine Trailer

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 4, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

The wait is over. I’m proud to offer you the trailer for 13 Months of Sunshine, the Ethiopian film I’ve been working on for about eight months. Everything in the trailer that you see was put together in just over a week, with pre-production and prep work to capture and collect necessary clips and talking [...]

Trailer Park Denizen

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 27, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

I’m on trailer duty for 13 Months of Sunshine, the Ethiopian film I’m editing. We’re actually much closer to a rough cut than I had suspected, though there’s still quite a bit of work ahead. Even though cutting this trailer is actually taking away from editing on the film itself, it’s to rekindle some excitement [...]

Red State At Progeny Festival

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 5, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

I just received news yesterday that Red State was accepted into the Progeny Festival of Motion Pictures, which is taking place on April 22 at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia. I will not be attending, however, anyone who can make it to support my film is welcome (it’s free!). If you haven’t seen [...]

Red State Soundtrack

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Since most of you probably don’t visit Red State too often, I wanted to make this announcement here as well. Due to legal wrangling, it has taken me a bit of time to get the Red State soundtrack uploaded, and by legal wrangling I mean procrastination. And by uploaded, I mean someone else has actually [...]

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