Up early, had a run, bathed, no caffeine yet today, but I have decided to take up smoking so this year’s resolution is kind of a wash.

Listening to the @nerdist podcast with Matt Smith, tethered through the bus’s wi-fi, on my way home for Christmas. #BestNightEver?

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Goody Bag was my first experience shooting on actual film stock and I absolutely love the way it turned out. The look of film is unmatched by digital and this 16mm film is no exception.

Directing, Shooting, and Editing this film was a lot to take on, but the experience of shooting on film is invaluable, even in this digital age.

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And check out Goody Bag HERE.

This film may have the longest back story of any film I have been a part of thus far. Kujo and I created the concept in the fall of 2009. After a failed attempt to shoot the film that same year, we realized that the film was going to require much more work than we had planned. We spent the next 6 months back in pre-production (and schoolwork) and in the summer of 2010 we decided to give production one last shot.

Production lasted four days - perhaps the four hottest days I remember ever experiencing. By the end of the week, the temperature was nearing 100 and the humidity at something like 99%. I know tensions were running high by the end of shooting, but everyone pulled through and because of their hard work (and a last minute change to the ending) we completed the film on the fourth day.

Though the film’s not quite what we had envisioned at the outset, I am extremely proud of it. It took a lot of blood, sweat, liquid latex, sweat, and Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged, but we got through it. I will be eternally grateful for the lessons learned during this film’s production.

If you’d like to watch z is for zombie, click HERE.

P.S. My apologies once more to Kujo for the massive poison ivy rash he sustained due to his dedication.

Grilled. What is there to say about Grilled? Perhaps way too ambitious, but it was a blast to make, even if it was absolutely freezing cold.

It’s an homage to Edgar Wright.

My thanks go out to everyone involved in the film.

Written and Directed by Zach Lynde

I shot All Over Again in my first year of film school. As an homage to Frank Capra films like It’s a Wonderful Life, I tried to emulate the high key lighting that was so common in the 1940s. The choice to shoot in black and white simplified the color palette and gave it an almost ambiguous time period, which the director - Bryan Crumpley - and I thought would allow the focus to lie on the story rather than other aspects, such as production design.

Another feature of All Over Again which was influenced by Capra’s films was the lighting on the character Mary, played by Scarlet Sheppard. In her first several appearances, we employed a back light, to give her an almost angelic glow. Through the rest of the film, we used as soft a light as possible on her, as was the norm with mid-century hollywood starlettes.

I had a lot of fun working on this film, especially because it was one of the first films where my sole responsibility on set was Cinematography, allowing me to really focus on lighting and telling the story visually.

If you’d like to see All Over Again, click HERE.