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New Semester of School

James Heyward — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:42:08 +0000

Well apparently a two year Associates can take three years, haha. This semester I’m taking the following: RTV 280 (Media Arts Exit Review), FLM 265 (Documentary Filmmaking), FLM 261 (Professional Experience In Film II), FLM 250 (Film Production Senior Project), and RTV 150 (Scriptwriting). All that’s left after this is my English class. Then who knows what I’ll be doing. Probably still taking classes at trident until I get work. Maybe I’ll take real classes and get my AA.

At least I’m doing something i love.

Ladies Please

James Heyward — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:35:18 +0000

This one goes out to all the ladies. Don’t make plans then bail on them, especially when I’m waiting on you at 2 am. I’m not down for one night stands, I’m sure plenty of other guys are so talk to them. Smoking is very un attractive, smells bad, is a waste of money, and it kills, don’t do it.
On a similar note the following are also not attractive: those script chest tattoos, monroe piercings, short hair, strippers, leaked sex tapes, babies and ex husbands when you are younger than 26, granny panties, high waisted shorts, when you wear a belt with the buckle on your hip, fatties, not in school and/or lacking a future, dirty cars, I have more but you can work on those for now.
I just had to make those points.

The real problem with video

James Heyward — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:58:11 +0000

Yes everyone knows about the war with film vs video. I’m going to throw in my two cents in about this issue. My biggest problem is Video as the source material. Video is great because it allows us to view a Film anywhere such as on our phones, TVs, computers, etc. But as displays get better the video looks worse, cameras and TV are always catching up to each other. Film as the source can be re scanned at a higher resolution. Video cannot cause the pixels weren’t there to begin with, yes i know you can up convert and it looks a little better but that does not compare to a Film with a really good scan.
I keep thinking of 4K TVs becoming the new standard in a few years and TV shows i love like the big bang theory looking like 480p video does on a 1080p tv. And as more and more films are being recorded digitally they wont be able to stand the test of time like Wizard of OZ has, which they took old negatives and restored it with an 8K scan and re released it on blu ray, it looks better than it did years ago when it came out. Right now the BEST digital cinema cameras shoot at 4K which is fine for the near future but wont do any good 71 years later (i picked 71 cause that’s how old wizard of oz is).
Think about this, during the time wizard of oz was released to theaters the TVs were less than half the resolution of a standard definition TV, most were less than a quarter that of what we call standard definition today.

the dry spell on my blog

James Heyward — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:13:32 +0000

I know I haven’t updated in a while, not because nothing has happened though. I’ve been busy with life. I have two more classes left for my associates, English and my Exit Review which I’ll see about finishing in the Fall. I needed this summer for myself. In other news iPhone 4 is coming out and I’m buying one. I’ve had my 3G since the Apple store here opened. Ariana (@ariscary) and I broke up and she moved back to Virginia, sucks I know. On the bright side I got a job on a film called Silence (@silencethemovie), Directed by Jewels Satterfield (@Jewels11) starring Dilana (@dilanarox). AND I have tickets to the sold out Modest Mouse show at the music farm, this will be the 4th time I’ve seen them.

ACCEPTED!

James Heyward — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:02:51 +0000

First things first. I got accepted to the Savannah College of Art and Design, AKA SCAD. If I go it will be for my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television. I’m almost done with my Associates in Film Production at Trident and now I’m moving up in the education world. If that wasn’t good enough I was accepted as a transfer student which means some of my classes transferred. I’m really excited. I plan on visiting/touring SCAD soon.

In other good news I’m still going to go to Universal Studios with Ariana, I got stuff taken off my credit report that wasn’t mine, and I finally replaced my drivers license which was separated into three pieces and held together by tape.

Also, I turn 22 next month on the 24th and I do expect presents.

free stuff? yes please.

James Heyward — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:17:26 +0000

Not only do I go to school for film and work on films I also sell computers at a national retail chain to pay my bills. Several websites are available for me to do training and get merchandise from manufacturers for free or cheap. Like http://retailedge.intel.com/ or http://expertzone.microsoft.com/ and even Symantec/Norton has one for me to get free legit codes for all Norton software, but thats only for people like me. Anyways, so I got enough points and order this $160 jacket for free from Intel, I also got a Intel branded aluminum water bottle. Its pretty sick. I may not get paid as much as I do working on films but its pretty cool to get free stuff.

On the more personal side of my life. Im still dating Ariana (@ariscary or ariscary.com).

AND I GOT ALL MY BRAKE PARTS IN. (which means i’m no longer a danger to others on the road)

2010

James Heyward — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:37:54 +0000

Its been a month since I last updated. Not much has happened. Christmas came and went. Ariana is visiting family in Virginia and we rescheduled our Florida trip to early march. After next semester ill be done with the Film Production Associates, I still plan on taking transfer classes and film classes though because its free. My schedule for next semester is: ART 105 (Film as Art), FLM 152 (Film Equipment), FLM 252 (Cinematography), and MAT 155 (Contemporary Mathematics) which happens to be the easiest math class that i could get away with. I still need my English and my exit review though, but ill take care of that after this coming semester cause I’m in no rush. I really wish there was an affordable 4 year film school somewhere around here though. If everything goes will ill be a camera intern on Army Wives which is what I’ve been trying to do since i started going to school.

i shot for “Swords: Life on the Line”

James Heyward — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:13 +0000

Wednesday I got a chance to work on the Original Productions/Discovery Channel show “Swords: Life on the Line“. I have Anthony and Marty at High Output to thank for that. I picked up all the equipment from High Output and loaded it in my car Tuesday for the shoot on Wednesday. On Wednesday I woke up and drove to where the boat Big Eye was coming in from its trip, then me and the rest of the crew waited. When it was about to arrive they handed me a camera and told me to shoot. I got a chance to shoot shots that I know they will use of the boat pulling in to dock. Then I helped take all the mounted cameras off the boat and helped them shoot the shots of the crew for the title sequence. It was a great day for great pay.

wrap on Angel Camouflaged

James Heyward — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:29 +0000

It was a blast being on set on Angel Camouflaged. I met a bunch of people and a few that are gonna hook me up with jobs in the camera department as a camera pa/intern (such as the 1st AC on Army Wives). One of which offered me some work with him in Wilmington, NC which is awesome. The director Michael Givens is an awesome guy and his kids are way lucky. I have a bunch of good behind the scenes pics here. There are also pics of the wrap party which involved tons of free alcohol and food. I’m glad I choose this as a career to pursue. Much better than paper pushing. It pays well too. I even got my first imdb credit. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3680177/

Angel Camouflaged

James Heyward — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:05:05 +0000

I got a job on my first feature film. It’s called Angel Camouflaged. It’s starring James Brolin, Dilana Robichaux, and Warrick Grier. Its directed and shot by Michael Givens. I’m a Set PA (but i’m not getting paid so on paper i’m an intern) which means I’m the ADs bitch but luckily they like me. The 1st AD is Jewels Satterfileld who is nice when she can be which is fine cause her job isn’t to be nice. I’ve worked with both the 2nd AD (Ben Hammock) and the 2nd 2nd AD (Jason Scott) on the Cannon Street Boys. So that’s how I got the job on this. I’m excited to see a finished product. It looks really good so far.

I’m also almost done with school. Ill probably continue to go just to earn credits if i want to transfer and get a 4 year degree later. as of now though im pretty happy being on set and 12 hour days aren’t bad when its what you want to do.