Blog

• Interactive Tutorial - Color Grading (free 4K footage)

  Posted December 25, 2016

  INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL - Color Grading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuohR9t5NA For this new tutori...

• reel radio network itnerview

  Posted February 28, 2015

• STAR WARS vs AVENGERS in 2015

  Posted January 22, 2015

  STAR WARS vs AVENGERS in 2015   http://peterjohnross.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=841

• INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL - multicam editing

  Posted October 26, 2014

  MULTICAM EDITING - ONLINE PROJECT   INTERACTIVE PROJECT - Multicam Editing from Framelines TV on Vimeo.   ...

• edit a CAR CHASE

  Posted November 25, 2013

  http://www.sonnyboo.com/images1/framelineslogo.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Framelines www.framelines.tv present...

• a new article on the edit style of the new movie CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

  Posted October 7, 2013

  a new article on the edit style of the new movie CAPTAIN PHILLIPS http://peterjohnross.com/modules/news/articl...

• Last Blog EVER

  Posted May 23, 2013

  The last blog I will ever write EVER http://peterjohnross.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=482

• a Marvelous Fox on the Sony Lot - Hollywood's Comic Books

  Posted December 18, 2012

  So several blogs ago I wrote about the new Star Wars films, the 7-9 of the series being done by filmmakers oth...

• Raucous Rapscallions

  Posted December 2, 2011

  I’m doing some minor writing of late. Whether it’s scribbling on a notepad at work, typing in Google Docs on t...

• Irascible Rankery

  Posted November 19, 2011

  Slowly the wheels turn. Already got 1 rejection and 5 confirmations of playing one of the two TV series in var...

• Elucidating the Erudites

  Posted November 12, 2011

  Elucidating the EruditeAfter over $100 in shipping and over 50 packages, I suddenly find myself with less to d...

• Waggery and Whimsy

  Posted November 8, 2011

  Focus is the key. Staying on track and not letting things help you stray from your chosen path; this presents ...

• Engaging the Epithets

  Posted November 2, 2011

  Acolytes of Boo, your faithful narrator has returned in more ways than one. As always, I have kept busy, but s...

• Penurious Pessimist

  Posted October 20, 2011

  I had a blast last weekend at the Colony Film Festival in Marietta. Saw some great movies, met some inspiring ...

• Inexplicable Idiosyncrasy

  Posted October 9, 2011

  Last month when we found out the Ohio Channel was airing our show FRAMELINES, I predicted it might get seen a ...

• Journal of the Whills

  Posted September 25, 2011

  I am a fan of Star Wars. The original 1977 version was the first film I ever saw on the big screen in my life ...

• Perfunctory Preparation

  Posted September 16, 2011

  Putting the final touches on my next article for a print issue of VIDEOMAKER MAGAZINE tonight, shortly after f...

• Clips of Frames within the Lines

  Posted September 9, 2011

  Not only has your faithful narrator been busy, even more has happened in spite of his self. Several announcem...

• Marvelous Legals

  Posted July 27, 2011

  I just saw the trailer for the new AMAZING SPIDER-MAN due out next year. It was way too familiar for me. Seein...

• Business Buffoonery

  Posted July 12, 2011

  Okay, time for a lesson on business side of “film business”. As many of my faithful readers know, I was a brok...

• Placable and Patient

  Posted June 19, 2011

  It is official; we did NOT win the Openfilm.com contest. I am not shocked, but I am a little disappointed. Who...

• Considerable Commensuration

  Posted June 16, 2011

  PROGRESS! As I may have mentioned, after Alex I increased our intern numbers to 3. My biggest trouble is comin...

• Intemperance and Insinuation

  Posted June 10, 2011

  This week I started teaching film and video at a school, as a new part time job. These first few days were mor...

• The Vaunting of Ventures

  Posted June 2, 2011

  In my quest to be more productive, there have been some successes and failures on my part. I wanted to do edit...

• Tangible Tetris

  Posted May 30, 2011

  The work never stops. Alex the Intern has left to spend the summer with family before starting his grad school...

• Overt Obviation

  Posted May 23, 2011

  My how time is not my friend, although we are coming to some terms. Lord knows I feel better being able to edi...

• Ampersands and Ands

  Posted May 16, 2011

  I noticed a strange screenwriting credit back in 1992 (yes, I am old) for LETHAL WEAPON 3 where they credited ...

• imperceptible impressions

  Posted May 14, 2011

  I am a big fat geek. I know it. I don’t mind it. I know this because I get excited by techie things that no on...

• An Auspicious Augmentation

  Posted May 12, 2011

  Did I not convey how little time I already had to dedicate to projects? How about adding another side project?...

• An Ostentatious Occasion

  Posted May 10, 2011

  This past Saturday, I was a guest speaker at the Alliance for Community Media conference in Columbus. I have a...

• The Grandiloquent Guy

  Posted May 7, 2011

  I have to tell you, folks. I am having one really really bizarre week. Doing this show FRAMELINES affects me i...

• Empirical Experimentation

  Posted May 2, 2011

  Tomorrow I intend to try something, something new. I want to make with total intention, a “viral video”. This...

• The Fissility of Felicitations

  Posted April 30, 2011

  Boy, this really is a fallow time for your faithful narrator. I almost missed a screening this past Thursday,...

• Preposterous Aspersions

  Posted April 24, 2011

  Want to know how messed up my whole thought process is these days? I completely forgot that my own TV show wa...

• an intransigent individualist

  Posted April 22, 2011

  Already feeling a bit better. I’ve done some creative work. I had to create an effect where an actor appears o...

• An Indelible Depression

  Posted April 21, 2011

  I am depressed. There are no two ways about it. I have sunk into a mild depression and it affects everything....

• The Machinations of a Madman

  Posted April 9, 2011

  Damn! Work is beating my upside the head. But that’s a good thing. Keeping busy and making money is not a bad...

• A Didactic Disposition

  Posted April 2, 2011

  Framelines, our PBS show on filmmaking in Ohio is like a freight train that’s going down a hill. I’m faced wi...

• Continuing the Cotillion of Conquest

  Posted April 1, 2011

  So far this week I have improved on defeating my bad habits. One of the things about recognizing my obsessive-...

• Operation: Procrastination Obliteration

  Posted March 24, 2011

  Sometimes a plan works. In my last blog I described a technique to force myself to get things done by setting...

• Après Moi

  Posted March 21, 2011

  Editing on my own personal projects resembles a treat or a dessert. Because I have obsessive-compulsive tende...

• Gesticulating, and not in a rude way…

  Posted March 18, 2011

  About 7 months ago I started a project, a new web series of short short movies. We shot the majority of one o...

• Oscillating the Scintillating Conversation

  Posted March 17, 2011

  Got a great message last night about the Sonnyboo.comsite of mine. I am always proud of what my little site h...

• Supercilious Superstitions

  Posted March 11, 2011

  How things change on a dime! We have our air date in Columbus for FRAMELINES. It will premiere here on April ...

• Extenuating Webstats

  Posted March 7, 2011

  I like to see how well a marketing push does. It determines if my ideas are hitting with the intended audience...

• Aidan 5, sci fi web series

  Posted March 4, 2011

  I believe in karma. There is too much evidence of it in the positive and negative for me to deny its existence...

• sneak preview

  Posted March 1, 2011

  As work continues on FRAMELINES, our PBS filmmaking show, it tests my limits of NOT being able to show the va...

• Mitigating Impatience

  Posted February 26, 2011

  Still tinkering with the FX work on the re-do of BITTER OLD MAN. I indulged by obsessive-compulsive side quit...

• Something’s in the Water

  Posted February 19, 2011

  My old video on the 180 Degree Rule has been featured in VIMEO’s VIDEO SCHOOL, a project where they highlight...

• Nongregarious Nomenclature

  Posted February 15, 2011

  http://www.sonnyboo.com/images1/blog/feb11/blog.jpg" /> Big news up first… ACCIDENTAL ART is now officially a ...

• A Vassal for the Verbose

  Posted February 9, 2011

  Okay, so the OPENFILM.COM competition initially said they were going to announce the top 10 and winners on Feb...

• A Regrettable Recompense

  Posted February 4, 2011

  So as I stated in my last blog, I’m revisiting my short film BITTER OLD MAN for the 10 year anniversary of th...

• George Lucas Junior

  Posted January 28, 2011

  With all that I’ve got going on, do I really need to look into the past and re-visit a 10 year old short film...

• A Dogmatic View of the Red State of Distribution

  Posted January 25, 2011

  Kevin Smith announced his retirement from directing at Sundance this past Sunday night after screening his la...

• The Semi Annual Birthday Blog

  Posted January 24, 2011

  Another year come and gone. So far, 2011 looks like a good year. We’re barely into the year and a lot of good...

• The Return of Horrors of War II : the Wrath of Hitler’s Finger

  Posted January 23, 2011

  It seems I can never escape my first film. HORRORS OF WAR just popped up in Sweden. All new DVD art, and with...

• Compensable Competition

  Posted January 13, 2011

  I have entered Accidental Art into this competition online from Openfilm.com called “Get It Made”. Basically, ...

• Sedintary Streak

  Posted January 4, 2011

  Today we shot the intros for 7 episodes of Framelines, plus an interview for another “On Location” segment. We...

• Editorial Bliss

  Posted January 3, 2011

  Should you edit your own movie? This is a question I think needs to be asked more often. Some of the great dir...

• The Crescent Curve of Popular Culture

  Posted December 30, 2010

  The girlfriend and I are re-watching the entire Battlestar Galactica recent series on Blu Ray, the gift that ...

• Arthur (1981)

  Posted December 20, 2010

  http://www.sonnyboo.com/images1/blog/dec10/blog.jpg" />I recently rewatched a movie from my youth that I had s...

• The Verism of a Cubist

  Posted December 16, 2010

  Now that the Sonnyboo Intern series is over (maybe), time to re-focus on some other objectives. Fundraising is...

• Fan Edits/Remixes

  Posted December 14, 2010

  Most people don’t realize that the word “Fan” is short for “Fanatic”. Nowadays being a “fan” of something can ...

• Director’s Cut vs. Special Edition

  Posted December 10, 2010

  Fans of movies love to see alternate or longer versions of their favorite movies. There are basically two diff...

• Everyone Lies and Misspells

  Posted December 9, 2010

  My reading habits have not changed. I read a paperback of some kind of pulp fiction, then alternate with some ...

• Multimedia Musings

  Posted December 8, 2010

  I own the multimedia playing device called the WDTV from Western Digital. I love this thing. I first bought it...

• Industrial Light + Starz

  Posted December 7, 2010

  In posting on the forums, I stumbled across a discussion on a Starz documentary on George Lucas’ effects compa...

• Monsters

  Posted December 6, 2010

  This past Saturday I got to see an indie film from the UK about two U.S. people in Central America called MONS...

• The Progenitor of Processes and Statistics

  Posted December 5, 2010

  I’m doing an experiment with this new web series. We already met our goal of 1,000 views on YouTube for the f...

• Passionately Preoccupied

  Posted November 19, 2010

  These new video blogs are popular with people I know. Maybe it’s the slightly exaggerated “me” or maybe peopl...

• Top 5 MAKING OF sites (2010)

  Posted November 16, 2010

  MAKING OFhttp://makingof.com/Natalie Portman is one of the founders of this site with tons of great EPK videos...

• a confounded nuisance

  Posted November 15, 2010

  Friday night I interviewed a childhood hero, actor Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica (both versions). H...

• Bedevilment and Predation

  Posted November 8, 2010

  So we put out the first video blog for ACCIDENTAL ART. I think the idea of taking a few potshots at myself and...

• Gesticulating the Syndicate

  Posted November 4, 2010

  I am going to speak at Ohio State to some students about film soon. I used to let things like this get to my h...

• Director's Reel

  Posted October 27, 2010

  After working on the site and resume, I realized my reel hadn't been updated in over 4 years. This is somethin...

• Revamped Revised and Renewed

  Posted October 22, 2010

  So I have put a little bit of time into the Sonnyboo.com site again. It’s been a while since I did more than ...

• Genus Festuca

  Posted October 15, 2010

  Yesterday we went to the Cincinnati Oxford International Film Festival, both to do a story on the festival for...

• How Ohio Filmmakers Got Screwed by Politicians

  Posted October 8, 2010

  I think all politicians suck. They are out for themselves and never for us, the people. I lean a little to the...

• Arithmetic & Budgeting For Film

  Posted October 4, 2010

  As the script revisions finish, the business plan and budgeting has begun for the next feature film. Since I ...

• The Pudency of the Pariah

  Posted October 1, 2010

  I am attempting something. I’ve taken quite a bit of time off from promoting myself, the Sonnyboo.com site, an...

• Draconian Disturbances

  Posted September 21, 2010

  Oh how time dogs my every move. I have so much to do and not enough time. Re-writes are my highest priority. L...

• Petulant Interjections

  Posted September 10, 2010

  A rough cut of a new short is done, but needs some work. It needs a new style that I’m not capable of deliveri...

• Lamenting the Lascivious and Lucidity of Certain Ladies

  Posted September 2, 2010

  Ah my droogies, your faithful narrator has been more than a bit busy. Between fundraising for the next featur...

• Kubrick’s Kinetic Kinescope!

  Posted August 24, 2010

  As I trudge throw my stack of books to read, I should not go near a Half Priced Books ™. If my car drives by,...

• 48 Fastidious Predilictions

  Posted August 16, 2010

  For this year’s 48 Hour Film Project in Columbus Ohio, yet again I did not get involved in making a movie, but...

• help make ACCIDENTAL ART

  Posted August 11, 2010

  Accidental Art is going to become a feature film! Just go to http://www.indiegogo.com/AccidentalArt and take a...

• Sanctimonious Sweethearts and Scurvy Dogs

  Posted August 1, 2010

  I finished them both, and on time. I don’t like waiting until the last minute, but since these are not-for-pr...

• Framelines

  Posted July 18, 2010

  Your faithful narrator has been busy. I occupied this fallow, low income time with many projects. I finished t...

• Pythagoras and his silly Numbers

  Posted June 22, 2010

  A 2+ year project has finally happened. We removed the kitchen set from our studio, so I quickly put together...

• Fractal Asperity

  Posted June 20, 2010

  Why is it taking me so long to do another feature film? That’s easy to answer. I don’t want to just make anot...

• Revisiting the Revisions of Revolt

  Posted June 3, 2010

  I am a tinkerer. I like to revisit my old works and sometimes re-edit. If I see something I suddenly feel need...

• The Kubrickian Phase

  Posted May 29, 2010

  For a little over two years I’ve been struggling with how it feels to be liked and hated with such intensity,...

• Rare Film Books

  Posted May 22, 2010

  I love books on filmmaking. I devour a few books a month on the topic. Half Price Books and Amazon.com used a...

• A Sedulous Artifice

  Posted May 21, 2010

  My long dormancy will soon end. I’m about to embark on several projects and all of them have their individual ...

• R.I.P. Hollywood Video

  Posted May 13, 2010

  The home video store chain HOLLYWOOD VIDEO just went under. The death toll must be ringing for BLOCKBUSTER VID...

• Film Score and Dedication

  Posted May 7, 2010

  One of the most simple, yet effective ideas in a score was exemplified in the LETHAL WEAPON scores, primarily ...

• James Cameron at OSU

  Posted April 29, 2010

  Ohio State University often has brought in some killer names in film, from Richard Linklater in 2000, to Spike...

• Legal Wranglings

  Posted April 19, 2010

  I’m a bit conflicted. I keep finding some of my videos on YouTube and other sites, but uploaded by other peopl...

• A Sagacious Conscript

  Posted March 11, 2010

  Today I was the guest speaker at the Upper Arlington High School’s film class. The teacher invited me to speak...