Film Fest Friday - Falling

For today, we feature short film "Falling" as part of Film Fest Friday! This is a random, but amusing film about two friends who find a magic wand while out on a hike. The results are, well, interesting.

AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central

Okay, that wraps up this week's film.

On a side note, I'll be at Disneyland all day tomorrow, my first official day as a cast member. Keep an eye out for any kind of reports or trip pics that may follow.
T.H. Excellence

Summer PhotoBlog!

Dang, it's been a really long time since I've done one of these. Too long, in fact. I'd better get started right away.


Here's a quick shot I took at Downtown Disney with my new polarizing filter.

These flowers were really hard to edit.


These next few were shot on a college retreat.


Why does this picture make me think of The Lion King?


Random water pipe shot.


Now for a few photographs from an overcast afternoon at the beach.


This shot of the lifeguard station didn't turn out as well as I thought, but it's not terrible.


Finally, a sunset shot of a lonely set of power lines, strung off into the distance.

Wow, it's been a really long time. I need to start doing these more. Hopefully I'll be taking more pics while I'm working at Disneyland this summer.
T.H. Excellence

Film Fest Friday - Kaylie

Today's feature in Film Fest Friday is quite special to me because, well, I worked on it earlier this semester. It was directed and produced by a couple friends of mine, and I was recruited to be the assistant director. I must say I think this film was very well done, and I'm pleased to have been a part of it. I'm also pleased that I've got at least three background cameos as an extra.



Stay tuned for a small PhotoBlog coming up in the next few days.
Ta ta for now!
T.H. Excellence

The Return of Great Adventure?

I just returned from the midnight premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I must say, it was WEIRD! Okay, not the whole thing, just the end. But let me start from the beginning: for the most part, I enjoyed the movie. It had plenty of action and adventure, true to the spirit of the original three films, with the epic chase through the jungle being my favorite part. Yet after the end, I kinda forgot about the jungle chase and the other segments of the movie. It was so weird, it was all I could think about afterwards.

On the plus side, "Temple of Doom" looks relatively normal now.

At any rate, I would still recommend seeing "Indy 4" at least once. You know you want to. Even if the end is weird, the rest of the movie is quite enjoyable in parts, and it's good to have Indiana Jones back for one more round.

And I'm pretty sure this is the only movie in which Harrison Ford escapes in a refrigerator.
T.H. Excellence

"Prince Caspian" Review and Film Fest Friday

On Friday, myself and a group of friends went down to the El Capitan theater in Hollywood for a viewing of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. My report: it's a decent film, but don't read the book or it will ruin the movie for you. For me, it was the other way around. While the movie wasn't bad on its own, I was too distracted from the huge discrepancies between book and movie to really enjoy it. While I have other complaints as well, I feel that these would have been remedied if Disney had tried to stay a little closer to the original story.
Again, the film isn't bad or anything, but it's going to get mixed reviews based on how well people remember the book.

At least the cinematography was pretty good.

Anyway, moving along. Today's Film Fest Friday (a day late - my apologies) features Mickey, Donald, and Goofy again in "Lonesome Ghosts". This time, the three friends have taken up jobs as ghost exterminators. However, when they reach their first client, the tables are slightly turned.



That's all for me, folks. I gotta get back to working towards finals.
T.H. Excellence

The End is Near!

Today marked the end of classes for the entire academic year, and I find the time to be quite bittersweet. While I will have so much more time on my hands once finals are completed, I will also be returning home, absent from all the good friends I have made at school for approximately three months.

But before that happens, I have several items to wrap up, paperwork and such, as well as a Disneyland wiki site to add material to. The next week is going to be rather intense. But it's going to be oh-so-wonderful as I complete my freshman year along with my fellow students.

I'm signing off for now. I've got to get back to work
T.H. Excellence

An Afternoon of Cinematography

Hi all. I promise that there will be a Film Fest Friday this week. It's currently residing at the end of this post. But before that, a little bit about my day:

Today I had a film shoot. I'm currently producing various video segments and faculty interviews for an orientation week here at school. But as fun (and insane) as producing is, I finally got to live according to my true calling: cinematography. Yes, for the entire afternoon I peered over the shoulder of my camera operator, setting up shots, arranging lighting and the like. And it was fantastic. I wasn't able to do quite everything I wanted with the scenes we were shooting, but I still had an excellent time and look forward to doing more work in the future.

So, anyway, that's what I spent my afternoon doing.

On to Film Fest Friday. Today I return to classic Walt Disney cartoons with "The Whalers", a short I discovered recently in which Mickey, Donald, and Goofy try their best to catch a whale. Do they succeed? Watch and find out:



Okay, I gotta go now. I've got a lot of film work to do tonight.
Thanks for stopping by,
T.H. Excellence

A Busy Life

Sometimes I'll see an item of considerable expense and say, "When I'm a rich and famous movie producer, I'll be sure to get (fill-in-the-blank)." Quite ironic, actually. For one, no one can tell if I'll become rich and famous over the course of my career. For another, I never gave much serious thought to becoming a movie producer, rich or otherwise. The thought never appealed to me. Yet for some reason or another, I'm having a great time being a producer right now.

Currently I'm coordinating all of the video work for an orientation week here at school. Essentially, the job is that of a producers. I've got to schedule faculty for video interviews, assign screenwriters to create scripts, reserve equipment, and so on and so forth. It's a crazy job, but I'm loving it. And I guess I'm pretty good at it. Or, at least, no one's complained so far.

So am I going to graduate and become a producer? Probably not. I still have my eye on cinematography, and I intend to thoroughly explore that field to see what it has to offer. Still, it's nice to know I have the capacity for something else in the film industry. Ya never know what could happen.

T.H. Excellence

Iron Man Review

Last night, I went with a group of friends to the local Regal Cinemas for the midnight showing of Marvel's newest comic book adaptation Iron Man. The general consensus: incredible! This film worked incredibly well. The story was good, the action/fights were good. Robert Downey Jr. played a solid Tony Stark. This definitely one of the best films Marvel has ever released, and I would definitely recommend going to see it.

In case that didn't pique your interest, here's a clip from Yahoo.com.


That's all for me today, folks. Go see Iron Man - I think you'll enjoy it.
T.H. Excellence