An Unexpected Study

Due to my religious background, and the resultant informed experience, I have had a suspicion that this has been true for quite some time.

It's exciting to see a scholarly approach and desire to analyze this phenomenon, and now to be able to show demonstrably that evidence exists to back up the belief.

A Reminder of Where Some of My Ideas Originated

This guy had a big influence on the design of my overall film company project. Over time there's a tendency to overlook where influences come from, and I don't want to forget.


WHERE IN THE WORLD IS PETER BRODERICK? from Peter Broderick on Vimeo.

Workin' for the man

Here I am again at the movie studio working on a few projects that are getting close to being completed.

One is a training video for missionaries. The other is training for employees for a specific department.

I've been adding music to one project. The other I'm adding what we call "b-roll" to the otherwise completed-for-content (or message).

Now, if I could just get regular access to a mac workstation...

"Register for the RootsTech Innovator Challenge" Video

Here's one of the most recent acting gigs I've done. It's short and required no lines, but I guess it doesn't matter, since I was still paid.

Teenage Dirtbag the Movie

A friend or two has randomly messaged me and asked me about this. Six years ago I had an unusual circumstance to have my mug show up in a modest indie film as a featured extra. I hadn't expected it, nor planned ahead for it. In fact, until this happened, I had never even considered the possibility of getting onscreen.

It was sort of my foray into being bit by the acting bug. Granted, this performance had like five minutes preparation. But considering my personal experience with the subject matter, I had plenty to draw on in the short period of time. Not to mention I had no lines.

This is actually the same project I did boom op on, but the sound is absolutely terrible. That wasn't my fault in the least though, as was confirmed by the director/producer who I worked with on another, later, project who I got the story from.

This film was distributed, but apparently its not exactly high profile inasmuch as there's a link to the entire film on youtube. Anyway, just in case it gets removed, I'll post the trailer and IMDB links. No, my credits are not on the IMDB page, though I guess I should look into correcting that.

My featured extra part is at the following point in the video: 1:23:53

Teenage Dirtbag IMDB page

Mess the Movie

This is a project I acted in five years ago. It was produced by my buddy and then roommate, Scotty Vorous. We met on set to a film where he was a second second assistant camera, and I was boom operator.  After I moved to LA post college, I kept in touch with Scotty, and when he made the leap south, he came to stay with us. This piece was both written and shot in the house where we lived on Kirkwood Ave. in Pasadena. That was the first of two years in CA. Now I've been living in Utah for more than four! My, how time flies.

Freelance

I just finished a freelance project that was relatively high-profile. It was for a company that was holding a conference down in Los Angeles. It involved cutting three videos that were used as openers in a humongous auditorium. They were projected on a giant screen that was hung from the ceiling, and then would drop in sections at distinct moments in the video. It's called a kabuki drop.

The video was little complicated inasmuch as getting the timing right. I worked with my two producers, as well as injected my own input and feedback based on the parameters they were giving me. I think they turned out pretty well.

The most significant thing that this project has done for me is to get me out of the mentality of relying on one particular source of work. Recently due to the Affordable Care Act, I as an oncall have been officially limited in my hours. Technically it hasn't changed how much I work, but it has got me considering what my options are. And that has led to me thinking more outside the "I work at one place" box.

I have always had the desire to move on to bigger and more emotionally satisfying things; it seems the time perhaps, is now. We shall see.

A New Direction for an Old Blog

Its been a while since I visited or posted to this blog. In fact, I never have really been consistent with it. 

I think I'm going to try something. For the last four years I've been working consistently, and had plenty of work to discuss. Not that the work I've been doing has been all that interesting, but I think it would be good to record my thoughts and process.

Initially this blog was a way for me to keep track of my creative process and behind the scenes of projects I'm involved with. It just so happened that there wasn't much going on the last few years to keep track of. That's not exactly true, or at least not as of late. I actually have quite a few things to talk about, and I realize this would be the place to do it. Moreover, due to some things within and without my control, I'm starting to have a more solid opportunities to pursue these ideas that I wanted before I got pulled off to this job I've been working at in the intervening years since I set it up.

Besides having a way to give details to those interested in the filmmaking process, I think it might be good to have a record of my professional life, as well a good way to keep me motivated and keep my eye on the ball as far as my professional goals are concerned.

Anyway, I'm gonna give it a shot and see where it leads.

Also, I'm going to start posting links to much of the work I've done this last run in the left-hand column. The other day I decided to make a list, and I was surprised how extensive it was.

Benji