New video from NYFA Grad David Lopez !! I enjoyed all of David’s work during the peer reviews. He was a great guy to talk with before – during – and after class. Here is a piece for a new restaurant in the Village called La Lucha Tacos and Boutique. This is an authentic Mexican style restaurant serving it up “Street Style”. This is the street vendor style we are all familiar with but here at La Lucha of course everything is consistently super tasty every time. Great job David !!!

So I’ll do blog posts on what we are studying and how I am making out. For now I have been using the onling stuff that comes with Final Cut Pro 7 and I bought the high end expensive subscription to Lynda.com for training videos. They are actually excellent vids if you can afford to subscribe to them.

(I have not been paid by any persons or firms for anything I’ve written in this blog post)

Ian David Aronson was an Associate Professor at Ramapo College in New Jersey – my Alma Mata. As I was looking for books on digital filmmaking I spotted this and I bought it. I’ve read 5 other books and this was my favorite for a number of reasons. The quality of the printing is outstanding. And the material from start to finish is well written and many of the major points I learned about digital filmmaking at the New York Film Academy are explained beautifully in this book. I was surprised we did not have a text book for Evening Digital Video at NYFA… and this became my textbook. I have found in life that if I read 3 to 5 books on a subject, I might know more than the so called “experts”. Usually “the experts” have a PhD and they ultimately reform life to look like their pet theories. Aronson is a straight shooter and he gives real life examples of everything he teaches in the book. Ian Aronson is a genuine expert with lots of experience and no illusions that get in the way of the content. I recommend “DV Filmmaking” to anyone considering taking or teaching a class in digital filmmaking.

Here is a link to the Google Books version of DV filmmaking: from start to finish
By Ian David Aronson

Because of the size of the room and the logistics, Mr. Rice is monitoring from the room adjacent to the room where the filming is taking place. There are advantages and disadvantages to monitoring in the next room. On the negative side, he has to get up and walk into the filming room a lot as he’s making corrections to the scene setup or working with actors or his crew. On the plus side, he can review and discuss what he see’s on monitor with his Director of Photography in a private area where the actors can’t hear what is going on behind the scenes. It’s hard enough for the actors to get into role emotionally for a scene… sometimes it’s better when they can’t hear the Director discussing problems he’s trying to correct.