The Summer of Productivity

I know some of you hardcore Sean & Peter followers have been really wondering what’s been going on. So here’s the low down.

1. Take Zer0 broke. We’re fixing it literally right now. We are totally going to be back this summer. It’s been a long learning process for us, though. Teaching you guys is what our original goal was, and we do have plans to continue teaching, but for now we need to do some learning of our own. As soon as TZ is up and running again, we are going to turn it into a sort of production blog. We’ll have behind-the-scenes videos of what we’re working on this summer. Which brings me to item #2.

2. S&P is now S&P&J&M. We have officially teamed up with Jaemin Yi and Mike Sun for the summer. That’s right, we are now three Asians and an Mexi-Irish guy. We’re like Wong Fu, only better.

3. The plan is as follows: each of us (Jaemin, Mike, Peter, and myself) will produce one short film (or “project”) per month for the following three months. Apparently Francis Coppola once said that everyone makes a bunch of “crap” before they start making anything that’s worthwhile. This is our summer to get past that stage. We are all going to motivate each other. This is actually going to happen. This is suddenly going to be “The Summer of Productivity”.

4. Oh, and lots of you have been asking about the Mark II and our EX1. The full truth is that the place where Peter and I worked shut down, so we lost our jobs (that much, most of you already knew). We have since started up a production company, but it’s not easy starting your own business. Money has been slow. So I recently sold my 40D, Macbook Pro, and a few other things and bought a Canon 5D Mark II. We were a little leery about getting a D-SLR to replace our EX1, but so far it’s really proven itself. Sure it doesn’t have every single feature the EX1 does (like silky-smooth-60fps-slow-motion-overcranking), but it does have a true 35mm sensor which is amazing. It gives us the option of changing lenses, storage space is cheap (uses CF cards). We’re definitely sad to see our EX1 go, but it’s really going to enable us to produce a lot more content this summer. Besides, it’s not the camera that makes a good movie, right?

Anyway, we’ve yet to establish a name for our S&P&J&M group. Peter suggested The Boys of Summer. I like it, but the domain isn’t available. Anyone have any other ideas?

Related posts:

1. The Boys of Summer: Meeting One
2. A New Chapter
3. Canon 7D versus 5D Mark II