Oranges and White Chocolate 3 minute scene First Edit

I shot this scene to practice shooting and directing - with a group of very talented and conscientious actors. 

With:

Betsy Thomas
Richard Butch
Liz Tiede
Judd Angel
Maricella Ibarra

Joe Wedner
John Luke - sound
Kevin Break and Plator Grezda - Assistant camera and sound

The LA River Montage for a secret planned Documentary

 I shot these pictures and put this montage together for an editing class I'm taking in hopes I will learn to edit better the footage I shoot.  This is something I have been planning for more than 10 years and over the years I have collected so much footage on the LA River.  More updates will come soon about the secret documentary in this magical place.

When Harry Met Sally Original Sound shot by Plator Grezda 2021

a scene I performed in.  I love to perform and it also allows me to learn about filmmaking.  I love the way Plator shot this scene and learned to always leave the camera on manual.  I'll try it in the future shoots.

Shot and edited these two scenes

 Been playing around and experimenting with shooting scenes.

Here they are.  I find it intriguing to play with the sound and editing the footage. I love finding ways to play with the camera too. Here are two pairs of talented actors doing different scenes. 

Writing

 I love to write and something about filmmaking attracts me to it.  I don't know what it is yet.  One thing I am sure of, I had a language problem, so to understand the texts in english, I read it over and over, which pushed me towards performing texts to understand the meaning.  I feel that filmmaking, whether it is recording audio of the texts, shooting moving images to retell the story and all the different mediums that come with filmmaking, takes the text and makes it available to anyone.  If it is performed in such a way like Bollywood filmmaking shoots their films, it doesn't even matter what language one speaks, because they would get the gist of the story by just watching it.  I am mesmerized by storytelling.

A group of actors will be performing pieces written by Errol Strider in about two weeks, myself included. Come check it out, the broadcast will be on zoom.  Here is the link:

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developing-a-sense-of-human-tickets-165212229225

 Everyone is welcome, all over the Globe. So if you live in Romania, Africa, South America like many of my friends, or any other country, and you love Theatre, please come. 

International Dracula Day 2021 Dedication

Happy International Dracula Day!

Here is a first draft of a Documentary I experimented with and wanted to get it out just in time for the International Dracula Day.  Having narrated the book inspired me to want to find out more about why everyone loves Dracula so much.  I'm still playing with adding more external footage.  Thank you to everyone who let me interview them for this.  

Update and the upcoming International Dracula Day on May 26 2021

Dracula by Bram Stoker is live on Audible

 I am excited to announce that after much resistance, I have learned to master my own audio and my audiobook is live on Audible.  I have promo codes for those interested in checking out my narration. 

You can find the book at this link: https://www.audible.com/search?searchProvider=Lauren+LeMay+Publishing&ref=a_pd_Dracul_c1_publisher&pf_rd_p=8a2752a8-601f-4465-b227-7e95d7917c27&pf_rd_r=DC9DR1FT2MA16KFGWD6Q

Organizing Phil's material

Since the lockdown is still going on in California, I began to immerse myself even more into the teaching material. Have been digging in archives of material collected from other workers and am amazed at the amount of teaching material Phil left. So I'm uploading it all to Dropbox. It is so much material that I might have to find a better way to organize this. It's a lifetime of work. If anyone has any ideas let me know. Here is the link to the Dropbox I'm posting it all to.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t31itqbm6teubyw/AACMdDGi_LuMzAD9U-nkfRI6a?dl=0