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Top Secret

During my time doing special effects and miniatures I worked on a lot of projects that I am not really allowed to talk about. Most of these were not “Top Secret” classified things (although some were). Most were just corporate videos. For some reason those big corporations are more paranoid than anything you have ever […]

Titanic

TitanicTitanic came at an interesting point in my life. I had heard about Titanic when we were shooting Dante’s Peak, However, I didn’t expect to work on it. When Dante’s Peak wrapped, about 5 different crew chiefs from that shoot had all told me they wanted me working on their next project. It was to be […]

Dante’s Peak

Dante’s Peak I was naïve in 1996. I had moved to Los Angeles that summer after getting my degree in Film & Video Production. I wasn’t one of those people thinking I could be the next Spielberg. Hell, I thought I had a pretty reasonable plan. The recruiters for the college I had gone to assured […]

Babylon 5: The Crusade

Babylon 5: The Crusade Babylon 5: The Crusade was an interesting project. I was working for Gene Young FX in Glendale, and Gene was a “vendor” for Babylon 5. Gene had made several pieces for the original show (guns, hand communicators, etc) and by the time I got there, most of what I did […]

Devils Moon

https://youtu.be/PDiiiz3h3pE The Concept: Cody (Phillipe Kane) is having a very bad weekend; and it’s about to get worse. After losing his wife and his job, he is forced to help the one person he despises the most: his former supervisor, Allison Cartwright (Erica Doering). Allison too is having a very bad weekend. Her car has […]

Down The Drain

Down The Drain is the story of Harry and Laurence. Two stoners from Los Angeles who get lured into the sewer in search for a damsel in distress. Will they get laid? Down The Drain stars veteran genre actors Tim Muskatell and Trent Haaga as Laurence and Henry in this never before seen short film. […]

Creepersin

Brides of Sodom was an interesting Creep Creepersin film to work on. It was shot mostly on sets built in a small studio in South Central Los Angeles. (and parts were shot in the junkyard out back…) This was a complete freak show to work on. It was Gorilla film making to some twisted extreme. Defiantly a unique […]

Someone’s Knocking at the Door

Someone’s Knocking At The Door Someone’s Knocking at the Door was a great experience for me. It was the 3rd film that I had Gaffed for Director Chad Ferrin. It definitely seemed like a smooth running ship at that point. All the usual suspects were there. People I had worked with time and again, and some […]

Easter Bunny Kill Kill

Easter Bunny Kill Kill! Easter Bunny Kill Kill: Here is my behind the scenes account. This is the second Feature that I worked as Gaffer on for Director Chad Ferrin. Chad had D.P.’d my Film Devil’s Moon, and we’ve been working together since. Before Easter Bunny Kill Kill, I had worked on Chad’s film The Ghouls. The Ghouls was […]