Category: Creative Production

For a time, we have been staying in some airbnbs around D.C. in hopes to start renovating our house in near Fort Totten. We have not yet started on that process which is disappointing however we have taken the opportunity to use some of these […]

We have been working on shooting some monologues for Excel to build up his Backstage profile as an actor. One monologue that he picked out was from a scene in Breakfast Club where the character Andrew is telling the rest of the kids in detention […]

My daughter Truth and her friend Erin wanted to do a video recording for their school’s Black History Month program so naturally I offered to shoot it and do a full-out production. The day they were ready to record, I set up the set at […]

I just shot Excel doing a monologue from the popular August Wilson play Fences using my Blackmagic Pocket camera. This monologue was an attempt to extend and display the range of Excel’s acting skills for his Backstage profile. The scene shows Cory yelling at his […]

I had Truth sit in the studio with a camera and mic set up for about an hour to just chill and play like she would when she’s just messing around on her guitar. Erica, Excel and I left out from the studio and grabbed […]

We had Truth stop by the studio in between classes to record a cover today. She chose to sing What Dreams Are Made Of by Evann McIntosh. Her friend Kevin was also between classes so he came with Truth to watch the small production. We […]

We did a full production of Truth doing several cover songs, in anbnb in SW DC. The first song she chose was one of my favorites, Weird Fishes by Radiohead. I listen to Radiohead a bit obsessively. From the studio, in the car, or anywhere […]

I can’t call this the first shoot here at the new studio (we did a green-screen shoot with a DC artist for a project a couple days before), but it is Erica’s inaugural green-screen, praise-and-worship recording for online church services. We have recorded them at […]

Spent a little time with my Blackmagic Pocket 4K Camera and a Canon 100mm Macro lens capturing insects nearby. Nothing special. Just messing around. However, this was all done handheld with a camera that has no internal stabilizer. Sometimes I have to just get out […]

This was the documentary that made me think, I could really do “this.” Armed with my DVX-100, the first 24p prosumer DV camera, I spent several months documenting the world of the burgeoning artist, Christon “Christylez” Bacon. It was the start of collaborative relationship that […]