Hello, my name is Andrew Jara. I am trying to be a writer/director. I made a film named "Last Days" that i'm trying to bring some press to.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Anything she does, I will watch
Pop-Culture News
1. J.J. Abrams is gonna direct Star Wars VII: I’m not sure whether this is an awesome choice or a lazy choice but we’ll see. Hey I was worried about Whedon on Avengers too. (More cause Whedon is a great writer but not the best director.)
2. Justice League has the final 5 and not including Aquaman and Martian Manhunter (maybe cameos). Remember when you were a kid and your friend had the new toy so you had to have it but then the toy store was sold out so you just got the cheap knockoff? DC is that kid. They’ve released the release date, the bad guy, the people in but they haven’t released a director, a writer, stars, any kind of good choice. I remain optimistic but come on!
My director page!
Hey guys, I made a director page and I’m gonna be putting all fun stuff on their! Please check it out and like it if you have facebook!
Last Days week. I’ll be putting up the trailers and photos from the film to celebrate that Fright Night Film Fest this weekend! If you are going, check this film out! Also fans, please share and like this stuff! And if you could tag it last days and fright night film fest that would be great!
Steven Spielberg was a hipster before you were.
Another Still from Last Days. Here is me directing from a grave, I dug! Also digging a grave is super surreal! Also this pic is an optical illusion, if you look closely you can see my brain unraveling as the shoot continues
Documentary: I don’t know I’m making it up as I go
So I decided to write a bit about my documentary that i’m editing right now. It all started last march, when I decided to write a script about boxing. It’s called “Comeback” and I hope it will be my next feature. Anyway, I always liked boxing but was more of an outside observer fan than anything else. So to research the script, I decided to interview boxers and film it because, well why not? I also started to go to local events. Which is where I saw Jennifer Han for the first time. As a female fighter, she probably had the best and most exciting part.
Well about two weeks later, I went to our local golden gloves event. That’s where I met Jennifer as she was coaching her brother. He had a fight. Well I told her what I was doing and she agreed to talk to us.
After talking to her, she told us about how she started in kick-boxing, how they are mostly a martial arts family and how every one of her siblings box. All 5 of them. (3 girls and 2 boys) So after that we decided to turn our footage into a tiny documentary. This way I could work on something and still get my research.
Now my favorite documentary is Exit Through the Gift Shop because it was the first documentary that had great characters as well as a great story and just a ton of cool information. It is everything a documentary should be!
So we followed her and her family around. We found a fight she was having in Las Cruces that we could trail her around to book end the film and give some action to watch.
So now I’m editing it and this is how i’m doing it:
1. Before anything, I thought about the structure of the film and what I wanted to say.
2. After that, I started working on the film in segments, doing a backstory on El Paso (setting) first and then moving on to the press conference of Jen’s fight.
3. Then i will start to edit the scenes while also thinking of the narration. I have the equipment so I just record with my voice for now and lay it down. After it’s done I’ll put in a real actor’s voice.
And that’s really it so far, since I’m just starting. I’ve also put the interviews on my ipod and I listen to them when I drive so I know exactly what they have to say when I get to that point.
So that’ how I’m doing it. I’m not sure if it’s right or how it’ll come out but we’ll see. Film is about experimenting in everything and I’m excited for this process.
Also watch Exit Through the Gift shop if you haven’t. It’s splendid.
Questions/Comments?
Here is an Interview of my film “Last Days” on the radio show “On Film” with Charles Horak. I talk about the premiere of the film and we both talk about the film and independent films in general.
Also hear me shamelessly compare my movie to “The Thing” so I can talk about the thing!
Documentary
So i’ve been working on the documentary all day. I didn’t really mean to but i got inspired and once that happens, i don’t stop until i have to… which may be in a few minutes cause i’ve been working for twelve hours.
So far I’ve done:
The intro to the doc and El Paso
The press Conference
Syncing!?!?! i hate you syncing
the first interview
