Beach Town officially complete

sign courtesy of Sweet Art Attack

Send in the tourists -- I've hung up my shingle. BEACH TOWN is finally finished!

The skies are blue and the air is warm, and film festival application has begun in earnest.

Who's up for a rock and roll beach movie of the mind? Let's find out.

Many many thanks to my good friend Kevin Tone for his work on the audio mastering!

What's next? 

From now on, I'll only be posting here about festival screenings and related news.

Of course, the festival application process happens many months before the festival itself 

... so stay tuned.

And hey -- if you personally happen to know of any film festivals that'd like a rock and roll beach movie of the mind on their plate, let's talk!

In the meantime, I'd be delighted to share your photographic company! I'm on Instagram.

Related news: There's lots of cool stuff coming up here in Seattle in the next few weeks:

Sarah Winsor is currently in Blood Countess, the Elizabeth Bathory bio-play that's showing at the mighty Annex theater. She plays The Victims (plural). The show runs through Nov 22.

Steven Stern is appearing in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, opening this Friday (Oct 31) at the Ballard Underground. He plays Nagg. There's a singular name for you. The show runs through Nov 12.

Steven is also directing two short plays this coming weekend! Corn King (written by Jennifer Dice) and Open Carry (written by Scot Auguston), and they're playing back-to-back at Seattle Public Theater starting Nov. 8th at noon. They will be a guaranteed laugh-riot.

Personally, I'll be seeing all of these shows. Hope to see you there!

Color correction complete

Uncorrected still photo by E. Hammen

Ahren Buhmann and I recently finished a several-day stint of color correction for Beach Town (a rock and roll beach movie of the mind). Ahren doing the correcting, me saying "yeah, that looks a million times better" over and over.

What is color correction? (or, "What would possibly need "correcting" about all those beautiful images?")

Color Correction is the process of balancing slight discrepancies in the hue, brightness, or whatever, of each shot -- and at the same time making sure the individual shots look good side by side with all the other shots in a scene, which may have been taken in different light, on different days, with different filmstock, and so on.

The result is that the film as whole flows well visually. It's movie magic. The illusion!

Anyway, Ahren did an awesome job and color correction is officially finished 

Next up: the final sound mix -- so that the audio flows nicely.

Then we're done.

Social hour: I ran into Kenna Kettrick and Amanda Keogh at the theater and talked to them for a bit. Great to see them both!  Also worked a bit more with David Thomas to tweak some music.