the oneyear plan

hey guys.

so, this is big news. I'm about to start working on my first full length feature, "the oneyear plan," and I need your help. All the help I can get.

the oneyear plan is the story of jeremy, a man on a journey to find love within the span of one year. It's a comedy/drama, but its not a romantic comedy, more a self discovery/personal journey story.

Here's where you come in. I will need help funding the project. You can help fund in two ways, one is through kickstarter, and the other is through my newly made zazzle store. At kickstarter, you can give more money and and can get varying degrees of thanks, be it an executive producer credit and lots of cool free stuff, depending on how much you give. At zazzle, you buy various items, t shirts, mugs, etc. anyone who gives in anyway, be it zazzle or kickstarter will receive a special thanks credit, as well as anything promised by the amount of money given.

All of this will be done through the central hub, oneyearplanmovie.com, which is where all further updates will be given.

thanks for reading.

peace. love.
matt

timespace.

so, the first part of the lifemotion project is online now. the link is at the bottom, so you're forced to read the whole post. aha.

anyway, its called timespace, instead of spacetime, because spacetime kept making me think of space jam, which isn't a problem, but I like timespace better for this. we shot it over two days around atlanta and the georgia state campus, and along the way met some very interesting people while filming. That's pretty much all I can really say about that. We shot in full 1080p, hd, with a panasonic hmc40. got some pretty fantastic shots.

Editing was really fun. It took a long time and lots of patience. Especially for one 20 second shot, which took nine hours. you'll see. It was done in premiere pro, and after effects and all that. Took about 4 days straight working to get it done. Then the uploading.

So, we originally uploaded last night, and waited hours for it to upload to youtube. while doing this, I joined vimeo, because then cool people could watch our videos. Then I realized that vimeo has limits on everything, unless you pay for vimeo, so I decided vimeo is stupid, and didn't upload. Mainly because it wouldn't let me upload. Finally after about an hour, our video was on youtube. Without sound. So, I went back in, and reencoded it, think it would have better sound. Uploaded, this time taking about 3 hours (I watched Iron Man 2 waiting, which didn't suck anywhere near the amount it did in theatres. In fact, I very much enjoed it this time, bolstering the tiny amoutn of hope I had for thor to a fair sized chunk of thor hope. thrope. seriously though, iron man 2. orignally a d, now a solid b) I was too tired to stay up for the rest of the upload, so I fell alseep. Woke up, checked video, no sound. Turns out, I wasencoding my audio in dolby digital 5.1 surround. and youtube can't process that. So, I encoded everything to a good solid hd youtube format. And now here you see the finished product.

enjoy timespace. best if viewed at 720p.

peace. love.
matt.

the lifemotion project: part one: spacetime.

so today was a long fantastic day of shooting on my new project, which is currently titled the lifemotion project. It will be a series of shorts, showing life in motion. ahaa. cleverly titled. ahaa.

Anyway, I have to say that the energy was awesome as we went about shooting around places. I'm definitely finding a great shooting partner in Tyler McClain, and I can't wait to see what endeavors we achieve in the coming months. I'm really excited about this project. We didn't finish filming it, but we did get a lot of work done today on things, dodging rain. I have to say, G-d was so good to let us film around the time it was supposed to be worst, but the sun was out and awesome. Got some pretty sweet shots in, and some eh shots, but that's what you deal with. We're going to finish shooting wednesday, hopefully. I hope the energy is at even half of what it was today, because man we were flowing. I feel like such a geek when I talk like that. Write like that. Whatever.

Anyway. So. Background on the lifemotion project. This will be an ongoing project through the summer. The plan is to create short films that show life being lived through motion. The first part is a very (very, very, very, very, very, very) loose narrative which was called mirrors, but now has evolved into the currently titled spacetime. I've always wanted to do sci-fi, and we're touching on it, I'm a sci-fi junkie, and time travel and space-time are things I probably throw around in my mind a few times a day. I can't exactly elaborate on what it is beyond that, hopefully this will give you a clue. I dunno. Probably not. That's alright. That's also how loose the narrative is. Ha.

We continue shooting wednesday. Hopefully we throw into post wednesday night. hopefully it'll be uploaded by the end of the weekend.

peace. love.
matt.

big things.

are coming soon.

very, very big things.

peace. love.
matt.