Mike King

I love making movies

I really feel lucky that I get to help make movies for a living. Today I got to attend a screening for one of our upcoming features. Just storyboards, temp music & dialog. I love getting these peeks behind the scenes of the creative process. It still gets me excited to see how these things evolve and inspires me to want to work more on my own projects.

Speaking of the creative process, I spent a couple of evenings this week giving feedback to my brother about the screenplay for his latest short film. I enjoyed that a lot. Though I always feel like I go too far with advice and steer things toward my aesthetic, which really isn’t fair to what he’s trying to accomplish as a writer and director.

Still wrapping up a few things for The Zit (animated short film). Rendered out some high resolution stills for publicity purposes and did some Photoshop work on them. We’ll probably visit Technicolor again next week for color timing the video version of the film. A few weeks back we went there to color time the release print. That was a lot of fun! I learned a lot and the guys there were really nice about mentoring us through the process.

Not much progress on my own projects, but I am a little stretched thin. Someday.

On a totally different note, my Tuesday night gaming group has ended its campaign in the Exalted universe. I haven’t gamed in like 5 years, so it was fun to get back into it. The rules were a little daunting at first. And I had an annoying tendency to freeze up when I got tense. I think I got too caught up in trying not to mess up. I was starting to loosen up a little, but now that game has finished.

So I’m really looking forward to our next campaign. Though nobody has suggested anything yet, and I’m not familiar enough with the various RPG systems out there to even know where to start. All I know is I can’t wait to play again, whatever world we decide upon.

Superbowl commercials

movieweb.com has every commercial from this year’s Superbowl online here.

Ouch

Cut my hand over the weekend and needed stitches. A totally preventable accident too, if I’d just been thinking instead of half asleepd and careless. I’m not supposed to let the wound get wet. So now I have the joy of taking showers with a plastic bag strapped over my left hand. Fun.

I also got to see Shaun of the Dead. Thank you, Netflix! One of the coolest movies I’ve seen in a while. If you like your zombies dished up with some great humor, this movie is for you.