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Friday, October 2, 2009 - 8:40 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
A New Start, And A New Format, For The Tampa Film Blog
It is a new era for the Tampa
Film Blog. The old Tampa Film
Blog is now archived, and this is the beginning of a new
chapter. I have added a few of the latest Tampa Film Blog posts, but the
rest will stay in the archive. I also will not be adjusting the archives
of the archive (if that makes any sense), but will leave the old Tampa
Film Blog site content active for research purposes.
This new Tampa Film Blog has a lot to offer. As for myself, I intend to
get away from stating the obvious, as Tampa filmmakers should be smart
enough to see things as they really are, and work together to improve
the Tampa indie film scene. Also, when I state the obvious, it comes of
as negative, and some in the Tampa indie film scene may think that I am
attacking them (or, in a few cases, that I set up this Tampa Film Blog
and the Tampa Bay Film sites to slam others, which is NOT the case at
all). This said, I will attempt to refrain from sharing any negative opinions
about Tampa film festivals, indie films, filmmakers, and other blog writers,
although I will continue to review them. Rest assured that my reviews
will be fair, and objective.
What if I get out of line? Well, now there are checks and balances in
place. You see, the Tampa Film Blog is no longer my own to do with as
I please. It is a blog for all Tampa filmmakers, and anyone, with something
to say about indie film and indie filmmaking. I will no longer be the
only one posting on this blog (although, since I will be using it, I will
post on it a lot). If I post something that you disagree with, you certainly
have the option to submit a blog post of your own disagreeing with what
my post said. The new Tampa Film Blog is for everyone, and it will be
a healthy forum of expression, promotion, and debate. I look forward to
the debates that will rage on here. The Tampa Film Blog will become an
online gathering spot for the exchange of ideas and opinions. This will
be a great way to help the Tampa indie film scene.
Of course, we won't allow anonymous authors. There is too much of that
on other web sites, and things get out of hand when people attack each
other anonymously. This is also not a message board. It is a film blog,
and is completely moderated. All posts will be read and reviewed before
posting. I do not believe in censorship, although there will be certain
types of posts that we will not post. If you want to debate, even with
me, go ahead and debate. Just refrain from personal attacks and credibility
attacks. If you are debating with someone, stick to the topic and don't
make it a personal attack. This is not a school playground. We are adults,
and professionals in the indie film industry, and we can debate without
going below the belt.
I will be pretty open with who will be able to post here. If Joe Davison
or Paul Guzzo wanted to post here disagreeing with me, or debating with
me, they are more than welcome to. Just keep the profanity out of your
e-mails (you don't need it to get your point across, and our readers would
rather not see it), don't make any slanderous allegations, and don't make
any violent threats like Joe has in the past. Keep it civil, professional,
and mature. If debating, stay on-topic. I'd rather not be accused of being
a psycho and a liar, especially when it is not true, and the people doing
the accusing are the only ones who are behaving that way. That's all that
I will say on that subject, as what was in the past shall remain there,
much like a lot of the older posts on the Tampa Film Blog will remain
in the original Tampa Film Blog archives (and that content stays; I am
not editing it or removing it). See, we can get along, after all!
When anyone posts on the Tampa Film Blog, they need to identify themselves.
We need to know who you are before posting your material. One their first
post is added, the person is added to our Author section. Their post will
be published on the main Tampa Film Blog page, and will have its own web
page in our site database. Their post can be referenced either by going
to the Blog Posts section, navigating from post to post using the “Previous
Blog Post” and the “Next Blog Post” links (all blog
posts will be arranged in chronological order. There is an Author link
in all posts which will enable you to return to the Author’s main
index to continue reading posts only from the Author if you wish), by
going to the Author section, or referenced by subject. Of course, we will
also be adding a shorter list of blog index links to the main page of
the Tampa Film Blog.
You may have noticed a lot of links and navigation menu buttons that lead
to other Tampa Bay Film sites, too. That’s not a problem, because
you can easily navigate back to the Tampa Film Blog from any of those
sites. With the expanded menus, the Tampa Bay Film sites become, essentially,
a huge super site composed of individual stand-alone web sites.
For now, I am working on adding new content to the Tampa Film Blog. For
the time being, I will be keeping some of the more recent posts on the
main page. Once properly indexed, of course, they will drop off, replaced
by a short text menu linking to each post individually. I have no current
plans to import older blog posts into the new Tampa Film Blog directories
than the ones presently on this page.
As of now, the Tampa Film Blog is the top Tampa indie film blog. We have
more content, more readers, more influence, and now, more indie film-relevant
features, than any other Tampa blog. Do you want to settle for some biased,
poorly-designed Word press formatted blog, or do you want a blog with
more readers, which is a professionally designed web site, and where you
can contribute if you wish. The era of amateurs is over. We are not going
to say that our Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is not really a film
festival, and nit pick, when it really is a film festival (and a great
one at that. Our online film festival is more effective, and has more
traffic, than all of the Tampa film festival events combined!).
Our lead will dramatically increase in the rest of 2009 and throughout
2010.
I have news, too. Great news.
I now have all of the equipment that I need to begin my filmmaking career.
I will be shooting a short film on November 29, 2009. This film,
tentatively titled friendship, will put my equipment,
and my skills, to the test. I will be using minimal equipment, such as
a standard-definition Canon FS 100/ 200 DV camera (it's no HD camera,
but it will do the job. Chris Woods once used a standard-definition DV
camera to create his Bleed feature film, and I can point out
countless more films that were filmed with such cameras. The Canon FS
100 / 200 is a single CCD camera, and although standard-definition cameras
used in filmmaking should, ideally, have 3 CCD's, I've tested this camera
and it is satisfactory for indie filmmaking. Indeed, with this camera
going for $300.00, and the rest of the gear going for another $400.00,
I will be making a series of excellent short films for a grand total of
less than $700.00 in equipment. Indie filmmaking, and making good films,
no longer has to be expensive. Don't laugh at my set-up, either. I know
what I am doing. Back when I first got into digital photography, I was
able to outshoot photographers who were using expensive cameras by using
a consumer digital camera. The same will go with indie filmmaking, and
after I build a portfolio of short films, I will be able to get investors
for professional equipment. I will eventually be doing larger budget,
feature indie films). The production will be small, too, with a crew of
two (I will be the director and the director of photography. An assistant
will help out with things such as the boom), and a cast of two. Friendship
will be my first solo film (I’ve worked on films in just about every
crew and cast role since 1993), and will start my indie film portfolio
and prove that good films can be done with small teams and budgets. Chris
Woods demonstrated this, also, earlier this year with his short film Spaventare.
With a crew of three, and a cast of two, Chris Woods created a film which
could very well be the best short film in the history of Tampa indie film.
Chris Woods is also one of the few Tampa filmmakers who can do just about
anything in the film production process. He is, in my opinion, the best
editor in the Tampa Bay film market. He also is able to do professional-level
work as a director of photography, director, writer, and just about anything
else. Many Tampa filmmakers are not nearly as talented, or skilled, and
have to surround themselves with talented people in order to produce indie
films half as good as the ones that Chris Woods does.
My first indie film, friendship, is about a man who is emotionally
devastated.
I discussed the story of friendship with Chris Woods, and he
didn’t care that much about the premise, although I did tell him
something that eased his concerns. I told him that the cardinal rule of
conflict driving the plot does not necessarily mean that it has to be
action. The conflict can be within the character, and if the audience
relates to the character, and what they are going through, the film works.
How else do you explain great films such as The Notebook? Of
course, any character-driven film is going to need one hell of an exposition
(set up) in the first few minutes. Otherwise, the premise will fail, and
the film won’t be that good.
Chris Woods was much more excited about my second planned short film,
scheduled for early 2010. That film will be Reverence,
and I have the screenplay pretty far along (it will not be the bloated
monster that the original Reverence
feature film script was at 120 dialogue-filled pages, which would
have made a planned two hour film a three hour film). The Reverence
short film will have a 20 to 30 page script, and will not run longer than
30 minutes. Reverence will have a cast of four, and a crew of
three; another film, possibly a great film, done with minimal cast and
crew. I told Chris Woods the story, and he really liked it. He thought
that it was good. Now, it will be good, but it all depends upon the production
and the execution of the script.
There are more short films in the works, too. I plan on doing my short
film, The Point, which is also a published,
award-winning story written by myself that you can read online. If you
read my story, The
Point, which the short film will be derived from, you
will easily be able to see how it will translate well to a great, highly
effective short film done with few resources. I will also be dusting off
my script for a short film titled Composure,
which is a romantic drama. I have another short film script, too, which
is a secret project about survival (I can’t say anything about it
right now, but it is going to be excellent!). I have a dramatic short
film script coming along, too, titled She wants to be a reporter.
There’s more, too, but nothing that I am at liberty to disclose
For now, it’s back to work. I need to get this Tampa Film Blog up
to spec.
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