Chess-Boxing

Video Game Script

Video Game Sequence

This is the video game sequence I wrote for CG Cinematic.  Check us out.

One Year Down

I am now, as of tonight, complete with my first full year of Graduate School. After all the stresses of movie-making (and I’m not being sarcastic), I get on a couple of planes tomorrow and fly home for the holidays. I’ve had so many interesting experiences that I’ll never forget. I’ve acted in a short film, a feature film, I did ADR work, modeled for a bunch of photo and storyboard assignments, and I’m working with a small group of 3D animators making a video game opening sequence based on a script I wrote. I met a lot very interesting people and got reunited with virtually everyone from my first semester out here and let me just say to all of you if you’re reading this: “You all freaking rock!” I’ve also picked up a lot of conversational Mandarin Chinese and some Korean.

I’ll be home for 6 weeks only which is much shorter compared to the 3 months I was home over the summer. But it’s not going to be all relaxing. Me? Relax? Please… I have to finalize my Midpoint Portfolio over the break which will be very time-consuming. I also wouldn’t mind finding a small part-time job while I’m home. (The odds of that aren’t good, though.) I also want to finally decide on which film I would want to shoot (or can based on availability and time) independently. If you read my blog regularly, you might remember I posted three possibilities and asked all of you to help me decide. Well just to give you all an idea as to what has to be done: I gotta put together a film crew which consists of a director, producer, editor, DP, camera operator, boom operator, sound engineer, actors, script supervisor, and probably a make-up artist. A location has to be found, we have to audition a cast, rehearse, and shoot the damn thing. I acted on a short this semester that had a cast of three total, one location, two rooms, and our crew was a modest twenty people.

But forget all that for now because I’m going home!

‘Brandon’ & Lending My Voice

On Halloween Day, I acted in another one of my classmates film, ‘Brandon.’ I had to wake up at 6:40 that morning and take the MUNI to this small apartment about a mile and a half away. Naturally with me being the punctual stickler that I am, I was the first person from the crew to arrive on set. We started shooting like at around 8:30 AM after the final touches were done on the set and we finished filming at around 6:15 PM. So

Gabriel Oggling

El Primer Día

INT. AUTOBúS- LA MAñANA
FRANCISCO(29) está sentado en el autobús.  Se ve nervioso y preocupado.  El autobus para en su próxima parada y PAOLA (23) se monta y coge un asiento al lado de Francisco.
PAOLA
¿Estás bien?
FRANCISCO
¿Yo?  Pues claro.
PAOLA
Perdón es que te veo un poco nervioso o algo.
FRANCISCO
¿Solamente un poco?  Qué alivio, pensé que me veía demasiado nervioso.

help me decide…

Okay, guys.  You all have a rare opportunity to help me decide which short film to make for my thesis project for my Midpoint review.  For sentimental reasons, I decided not to do it on ‘A Thousand Words.’  There are 3 short scripts to choose from: one is a new short that I wrote about 2 weeks ago, another is based on the novel I’ve been writing, and the third is another new script that is the opening scene of a feature (full-length) film.  I need to come to a decision by the end of the week because I need time to get all the pre-production work done.

There is no wrong answer obviously.  Be honest and let me know which one you think I should do and why.  You can also post your comments on my Facebook Fan Page.

Thanks Everyone!

True Identity

Lapse

The Voice In His Minds

crazy week and thesis project

So yea, like the title says, I’ve had a pretty crazy week filled with some of the most amazing experiences I’ve had all year. I first received an e-mail from my friend who’s a director asking for me to act in his feature film at the last minute. I ended up traveling all the way to Berkeley, CA. a few days back and was on-set for over 7 hours to film a 3-minute scene… Welcome to my world.

I was walking through Downtown the other day and saw a sign outside Jefferey’s, a vintage Toy Store where a sign was posted that Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca from Star Wars, was having a signing. I walk in and sure enough there he was. All 7 feet 4 inches of him. He was actually a very nice man who gladly posed in a picture with me and I got a signed picture from the 1977 Rolling Stones Magazine cover from the film’s premiere. I even gave him my business card. I couldn’t resist. LOL!!

Now back to the reason that I’m out here: Graduate School. I have decided to film three scenes of ‘A Thousand Words’ as my thesis project that I will pitch in front of a panel during my Midpoint review next semester in order to be able to produce the full feature project so I can then submit it for every film festival that’s willing to show it. It will take me the whole semester to do. It’s going to run somewhere from 10-12 minutes, but it’s going to take me the whole semester to find a director, producer, editor, scout locations, have casting calls to audition actors, production, and post production… it hurts just reading all that. Well, it’s why I’m here.

Wish me luck!!

The Sacred Stones

vlad the painter

I was on my way back home from spending the day with friends and we wanted to stop at the Salvador Dalí studio but it was closed.  Disappointed, I turned around and started heading back to my bus stop and came across another art gallery from a Russian painter named Vladimir Vitkovsky.  Vitkovsky was born in 1950 and immigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1989 already being trained by some of the greatest masters of the time.

When I walked into the studio,