Mike King

I love making movies

February 11, 2005 on 1:00 pm | In Life in General, Movies and TV | Comments Off

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.