Recent Entries

• The Machinations of a Madman

  by sonnyboo April 9, 2011
  Damn! Work is beating my upside the head. But that’s a good thing. Keeping busy and making money is not a bad thing, especially given how this economy has been hammering at video production. The downside is that I have failed to promote my upcoming screening as well as I would have liked. The atten...

• A Didactic Disposition

  by sonnyboo April 2, 2011
  Framelines, our PBS show on filmmaking in Ohio is like a freight train that’s going down a hill. I’m faced with deadlines and a workload that dwarves the small trio that is working on something of this magnitude. The struggle is to maintain quality and not have the time to do so. I endeavor to kee...

• Continuing the Cotillion of Conquest

  by sonnyboo April 1, 2011
  So far this week I have improved on defeating my bad habits. One of the things about recognizing my obsessive-compulsive behavior results in trying to out maneuver them. Tricking one’s self can be tricky, but possible. Retraining your mind to erase decades of reinforcement is never easy. The worst t...

• Operation: Procrastination Obliteration

  by sonnyboo March 24, 2011
  Sometimes a plan works. In my last blog I described a technique to force myself to get things done by setting a self imposed embargo on the fun narrative work until the various day job and TV work is completed. So far, so good. I’m now 75% done with another episode of FRAMELINES, caught up on outst...

• Après Moi

  by sonnyboo March 21, 2011
  Editing on my own personal projects resembles a treat or a dessert. Because I have obsessive-compulsive tendencies, I cannot allow myself to start work on editing one of my “art” projects until the day job work is done. That means I have to finish editing all the commercial work, then the PBS show ...

• Gesticulating, and not in a rude way…

  by sonnyboo March 18, 2011
  About 7 months ago I started a project, a new web series of short short movies. We shot the majority of one of them, but always intended to shoot the last shot on the next one. Life intervenes and here we are more than half a year later and finally getting that shot and doing another short for the ...

• Oscillating the Scintillating Conversation

  by sonnyboo March 17, 2011
  Got a great message last night about the Sonnyboo.comsite of mine. I am always proud of what my little site has done in terms of helping filmmakers with paperwork, free music, and now video and sound effects for free. So here’s what I was sent:I was on a panel of producers for "Eat, Drink, and Be I...

• Supercilious Superstitions

  by sonnyboo March 11, 2011
  How things change on a dime! We have our air date in Columbus for FRAMELINES. It will premiere here on April 24th at 2:30AM in full HD on Channel 34.1 with repeats to follow (on better time slots I assume) on 34.3 the “Create” extra digital channel. To help promote the show, I wanted to do a live ...

• Extenuating Webstats

  by sonnyboo March 7, 2011
  I like to see how well a marketing push does. It determines if my ideas are hitting with the intended audience. That helps me shape goals and informs me as to a realistic expectation of how my work is received. It’s my mini non-studio version of test marketing and thanks to a few tools, it’s complet...