Archive for May, 2007

Totally random find

Posted: 24th May 2007 by Travis Thomsen in DDP, Joined

My friend Dar from SAL was goggling info on the Bijou when she found this link. My co-worker Angela posted an article about Joined winning first place at SEP. She also talks about Texas Motion Picture Alliance. Thanks for the kind words Angela.

JGB Episode 1 almost done!

Posted: 23rd May 2007 by Travis Thomsen in JGB

There is one more shoot day to go and I’m done with principle photography. Sunday was another good shoot day and things are beginning to fall into place. For the past few days I’ve been editing like a machine. Thing are beginning to come together. I showed a rough cut to Adam my co-worker and [...]

Unlucky 13

Posted: 18th May 2007 by Travis Thomsen in New Projects

The past couple of weeks work and not getting enough has been killing me. However, I’m getting my energy back. I haven’t posted much lately because of this, even though I’ve been doing a few things in the background. I’ve decided that I am going to venture down the path of a feature length film. [...]

Pain, suffering annoyance, but everything turned out just fine.

Posted: 18th May 2007 by Travis Thomsen in JGB

Sunday the 6th we start reshooting JGB. From the most part it was a very ruff shoot. Matt’s new place didn’t A/C, Moses showed up drunk. For the most part everyone was a bit on the rowdy side. I left that night rather pissed off and discouraged. As always Cindy and Jenn out do themselves. [...]

To feature or not to feature?

Posted: 2nd May 2007 by Travis Thomsen in DDP, New Projects

This week I started reading Bret Stern’s How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000 (And Not Go to Jail) Great book, funny as hell. If you ever had the desire to become filmmaker it’s a good book to pick up and thumb through. A few of my film making friends decided to stop [...]