Short Films, Rethinking the TV Spot

Short Films – Dave Perry Cinematographer LLC DPC recently registered for the Lynchburg 48 Hour Film Project which will be held Aug 8-10. The idea is to create a short film in 48 hours with no pre-planning. Each team is given a  a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre for their […]

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Filming Resumes For “This Is For Josephine Brown”

It’s taken a while but the short film “This iIs For Josephine Brown” is back in production. The DPC crew, with Director Michael Boyd and Director of Photography Dave Perry, resumed filming July 7 at the Salem Fair in Salem Virginia. The decision to shoot at the Fair was a personal one for Dave and […]

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The Fair Is Coming to Town!

About a year ago I was thinking about getting out of the creative world all together. I’ve worked as a creative all of my adult life. After graduating from college in 1986 with a B.A. in Psychology, I became a production potter for the next 13 years (yeah, I know, go figure). I got my […]

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WTF Was I thinking?

So, I’ve been a little quiet in the blogosphere lately. So far I’ve been able to to post at least two articles a month, and I still have some time left in this month. But it’s getting late. It’s only because I’ve been busy in another area of my life. What area would that be? […]

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Scenes One, Two, Maybe Four…and An Ending

I’m writing a screenplay for a short film….and it’s not easy. Writing is not something that comes very easily for me. Sometimes I’m inspired and can do it, but most of the time I’m too distracted. Most of my writing exists in personal journaling and this blog….and I’ve never written a screenplay. What seems to […]

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A “GD” and two F-bombs

So I won a Gold Addy at the 2013 Western Virginia  for “The Culture of Silver Seas PR”, a short film. To be honest I didn’t think I would win anything but at least I would get the film in front of some eyeballs. Well, if I want to be honest though, I wouldn’t have entered […]

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Over and Over and Over…

My first job out of college was for a pottery in Bedford Virginia. It was formative to my approach to design and production and my work ethic in general. As a production potter, I made the same piece over and over and over and over…and they all had to be exactly like each other. I […]

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On Second Thought…

I met with two guys recently about shooting and DPing a music video. Both are guys I know. One of them I’ve known since he was in elementary school. My Kids and he grew up together. The other is a young video producer who is doing a lot of work in the local and regional […]

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Media Row

It’s interesting how certain areas become creative conduits. It can be a room in the house, a part of an office, a nice park or remote rural setting, or a section of town. It’s also hard to say why a given area promotes creative juices. Some creatives prefer to work alone or in isolation and […]

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Another Brush (and a tip on how to use it)

My last post was about tools used in the creative process and how they can be an asset or a liability. The train of thought is that the tool is secondary to the final result and don’t get caught up in the hype of the latest and greatest tools for the sake of being on […]

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