A 15 year old Madison Scout
Our last home visit before we joined the Madison Scouts for spring training was along the Texas coast in Corpus Christi. We went there to see the youngest member of the 2012 Scouts, Hunter Paradise. He...
View ArticleHome Visits & Spring Training
We wrapped late last night our fifteen day trip for “Scouts Honor: Inside a Marching Brotherhood” which started off with pre season visits to three states. Directors, Mac Smith and Tom Tollefsen met up...
View ArticleStretching Dollars
During our last shooting trip for “Scouts Honor: Inside a Marching Brotherhood” we really stretched our dollars. We were on the road, in the air, and covered 4 states in 15 days. While air travel was...
View ArticleTedious Yet Important Tasks
Making a film is a monumental task. While many tasks require you to exercise creative muscles, others are tedious, but equally important. Today was a day to conquer some of those not so fun “to dos”....
View ArticleCamera Placement
Tonight we are shooting a live performance of the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. There’s always a debate about camera placements. It can be tricky for a fast moving show...
View ArticleCommitting to Final Cut Pro X
I am a professional editor…a professional sound editor, not a picture editor. I’ve gone back and forth for months now trying to decide which picture editing platform to commit to for our documentary...
View ArticleWave Agent
Now that we are starting to dive into post production on our documentary “Scouts Honor: Inside a Marching Brotherhood” we are learning tricks to make the process easier. One of the production sound...
View ArticleLots of hard drives, many TBs of doc media
Click on this link to see our first “Vine” post: Lots of hard drives, many TBs of doc media Follow us on “Vine” as “Scouts Honor Doc”
View ArticleWhy so little content on here?
That’s a very good question! When we first started making the documentary about the Madison Scouts we knew that we needed a company and a website. Gigantic Cranium Productions was formed and this...
View ArticleWhy high profile crowd funding campaigns are good for the small filmmaker.
I was certainly surprised as many others were when the “Veronica Mars” crowdfunding campaign took Kickstarter by storm. Now Zach Braff is following suit with his campaign to fund his indie feature...
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