Patience and focus. Patience and focus are not my greatest strengths.

Patience

As I continue down the road of developing my next film I find myself becoming impatient to get the story together. It’s looking like this will be a close to if not a feature length film. I’ve never done anything like that before. I’m used to working on short pieces around 2-10 minutes in length. So pulling together a film that could potentially be 100 to 120 minutes is daunting. I remember looking at “The Making Of” on the special features of DVD’s. I always thought to myself “Man, if I could just have whole year to focus on a film and nothing else, that would be awesome.” That sentiment is still true it’s just that I want to spend time with my beautiful wife, work my full time job, do outside work, a flashmob group etc at the same time.

“Man, if I could just have whole year to focus on a film and nothing else, that would be awesome.”

I feel that the story I want to tell deserves my patient attention. It’s going to Read the rest of this entry »

I am in the process of developing my next film. As I move forward with the project I started reflecting on some things I learned from my previous two films. I’d like to share these lessons with you.

Lesson #1: Don’t put your story in a box.

The second film I worked on with my good friend, Clay Banks “Graves Method” was a fine example of this principle. We had, I believe, a really touching story to tell. The problem was we had to write the script to fit our short shooting schedule and run time. We tried to jam in a mental problem, marriage issues, a deep psychiatrist character and much more into a 10-15 min run time. In the end it was rushed and confusing. There was too much going on “under the surface” stuff that didn’t get a chance to pop it’s head above the water and character relationships that were shallow, to say the least.

The current film I am working on was a promise I made to myself. I told myself the next film festival DVXUser put on I would enter. I checked the website periodically until they announced the next fest: “Loss”. This was a perfect fit as I had seen a video on YouTube recently that really touched me. I won’t be sharing the exact details of the story since it’s still in development but suffice to say it fit perfectly for the festival. The problem was as I began to research the story and develop the concept I realized the 6 minute limit would be very difficult to work with. Bottom line, don’t sacrifice story for time limit. If you have to, extend the production and do another fest.

Lesson #2: Keep it to yourself.

I have the bad habit of giving too many people too much information or access to Read the rest of this entry »

“Fatal Illusion” was produced in 2004 for the 168 Hour Film Festival. It was written and pre-produced in one week then shot, edited and delivered the next for the festival. In over 150 films entered we ended up in the top 10. I won a gold merit award for “Production Design“.

I’m very proud of this film and am happy to share it. Read the rest of this entry »

“Massify, the online collaboration site for film makers, recently reached its goal of creating the first ever fan-created film with the completion of Perkin’s 14, a horror flick scheduled to premier January 9 - 15 during Horrorfest III.” http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/first_feature_film_created_via.php

Looks like Massify, the website dedicated to democratizing film making has come out with their first feature! Way to go, guys! Trailer below:

I’ve been working on the “40 Days Of Purpose” DVD for the Spanish ministry at Lakewood Church. It is a six week series that will go out to over 300 home group leaders. I’m going to do a full post on the process in a week or two. In the mean time, I’ve uploaded week 3 of the DVD here. Enjoy!

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I had the privilege of interviewing Frank Cowan, a crisis communications expert. Frank Cowan retired the first time in 2002 after 20 years as an Instructor/Public Information Officer with the CSTI, San Luis Obispo, specializing in Crisis Communications. Please take a minute to view his full bio here.

In this interview, we’ll cover private property rights, trespassing, dealing with authorities and the “new media”. I am very grateful to Frank for his time and hope he can join us again. Read the rest of this entry »

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A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.
you can find more about the making of at this link in Lascano’s page: http://carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html

This was shot by my friend and fellow media guy, Todd Barber. It’s of his daugther as he wakes her up to take her tot the pool. I don’t really want to post personal stuff on this site, but I think this video is adorable and a nice slice of life. Enjoy.