Filmmaker Blog - Mario J. Novoa

Check out these great video essays on filmmaking, style, editing and features a number is great filmmakers. Inspiring! Roger Ebert’s “The Art of the Video Essay”

I am a huge fan of Vince Clarke and everything's he touched(Yaz, Erasure, Depeche Mode). I found a channel by him on Soundcloud.com by accident, and I am glad I found it. Gold nugget of the day! https://soundcloud.com/vince-clarke-rarities

Check out this clip on the master talking about his approach to filmmaking. http://youtu.be/0KXCLKXj6eA

http://vimeo.com/60065040 This was the feature I was producing in December. Check out the trailer. Directed by  Donre Walker The Miracle of Tony Davis - Feature Film - Gunned down by a young man involved in a gang initiation, Tony Davis was clinically dead when he arrived at the hospital. His journey to heaven and back is an inspirational story about forgiveness and helping others in need. http://vimeo.com/60065040

http://www.lauralovecine.com/making-miracles/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/02/14/171952995/first-watch-depeche-mode-heaven

‘As a producer I’m an adult. As a director I am a child' http://moviepilot.com/stories/845220-sbiff-2013-producer-s-panel-highlights?stamp=42912&subscribe_to=839441&utm_campaign=sbiff-2013-producer-s-panel-highlights&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=fb-channel-legendary-directors

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-wars-writer-lawrence-kasdan-wants-spinoff-film-to-start-fresh/#/0

On January 5th 2013, The Baby Cries began principle photography. Through an exhaustive pre-production process, the production management team began to roll out the plans that were initiated months ago. Producers Kristen Wair and Mario J. Novoa worked for a number of weeks to cover logistics using an online production management platform called  lightspeedeps.com  that helped guide schedule, contact information and crew responsibilities. Using this online platform allowed production crew "real time" access to vital information regarding the  film shoot. As we move into the post-production phase, we are still using this platform to gain insight into the management side and to understand how to efficiently run future production schedules. Having information available to all crew is an essential tool to making sure communication is available at all levels. As small as our indie production was, the production ran very efficiently and allowed for necessary changes on ...

Jan '13 was one of the most difficult months I've had a long while...and it was great! It wasn't until I ran through the list of productions/projects I had going, that I realized how much work I had completed and the number of people I collaborated with! Development of the LAFSAA (non-profit 501 (c)) and Film Bliss Studios LLC, Completed 2 classes: Display Ads and Business Statistics/Data Analysis, Consulting on a marketing strategy on two features, Directed/edited a short dramedy pilot, Edited 3 video promos, Documented the production of a play, Wrote my blogs, Watched all the Independent Spirit Award screeners Spent quality time with family. Great way start the year!

Depeche Mode's new single Heaven came out last week. I'm in love with Heaven. Musically DM has moved from synth to rock, and rock to synth...changing their tempo and tone. Having listened to their last album "Sounds of the Universe"non-stop since its release, I notice that DM enjoys changing their music. Changing it in ways that really keeps their original style and evolves into something uniquely their own, while playing homage to the blues genre. Heaven is another piece of art in the same evolutionary style. Heaven plays beautifully with such deep passion. It's a song that is hard to leave after you hear it. The new Depeche Mode album is called Delta Machine and is available on 3.26.13 Picture from Facebook http://www.depechemode.com

Are your dreams ever boring? Are they full of ecstasy, fear, sorrow or laughter? Dreams linger on in your mind, just like a movie. Movies are fluid. Movies like Dreams continuously fulfill a part of our psyche that excites us. Movies put us in another state of mind and transports us into a dreamlike state. Alfred Hitchcock (one my favorite film directors) once said "Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it. I believe that this statement is true for dreams. Dreams are so dynamic that they stay with us for awhile, if not a lifetime. Movies are the Myths of our times.  "Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.",  Joseph Campbell.  We are transformed through dreams and movies, rarely bored...full of ecstasy, fear, sorrow and laughter. We ...