Video Blog Episode 2

Here's my next blog episode, from April 4th. This sat on my computer for a very long time. Next week we'll see Episode 3, a behind the scenes on the short film "Behind Closed Doors"

I present to you a video blog for... March 21st.



My video blogs have been delayed by a software slowdown, so I'm a bit backed up. Over the next two-three weeks, a bunch of these will be released, to bring me up to date. From there I will post a new video blog every two weeks.

The blogs are about whatever I feel like making them about. They are generally just an observation of what I'm up to. A little slice of life. Many of them so far have been about behind the scenes on movies, so that might be interesting to you guys. They all end with jams.

Enjoy a two month old blog!

The Cheddar Connection

I threw up two old Cheddar Connection trailers onto my Confused Director youtube account. The second I finished high school I wanted to make a movie. A big movie. I had a concept for a movie: A cheesy-addicted junky hallucinates a giant cheesie who convinces him to perform evil deeds. I contacted Max Goodis to co-write it with me, and after many nights of writing sessions downtown Burlington (including getting kicked out of a parking garage) we had a movie.

Making The Cheddar Connection was wicked. We got a good chunk of BCHS theater students and alumni (Tom Hart, Myke Dukich, Simon Livingstone, Martha Sachs, Danny Difiore, Kirsten Hess and Roy) to act and help us out. These guys were of extremely high caliber. Maybe it was the school, maybe it was Helen, but everybody was so professional and dedicated to the project that it most likely wouldn't have been able to come together if I wasn't working with them.

Over the next 8 months in college, I worked on cutting The Cheddar Conenction whenever I had the time. When classes ended I spent a good two weeks working full-time at the shool on The Cheddar Connection. Finalizing the edit, doing the sound mix (which sounds atrocious now) and assembling a very in depth DVD, took so long that I was still in Oakville when my lease ran out and I ended up sleeping on a couch at my friend's place for a couple days.

In Burlington, there were a surprising number of people waiting to see the film. I knew nearly half of the staff at a nearby Block Buster, so I would go in every day, asking a different friend who worked there, if they could spare me some empty cases, and after about a week or so I had thirty or thirty five.

I just got bored of writing. Watch the damn videos.