The title kind of says it all. Making movies is ridiculously hard. I mean, I have got to work on a lot of small scale projects, and the sheer amount of stress I get from those can be overwhelming, I can't imagine what it must be like with a movie that is worth hundreds of million dollars. I'm a pretty lucky guy. Over the years I have got to work on a lot of fun video projects, a wide variety of fun video projects. I got to help on a music video shoot, I shot part of a State basketball tournament, I've made short films, I've worked on commercials and documentaries. It has been very different work and each one was a very different experience. The only common denominator with all of them, they all were hard.

I'm just going to throw this out there. I fancy myself something of an writer. I'm not going to say a great writer, but a writer. To date I have written three one-acts, three short films, four Writer's Guild registered scripts, two comic books and the beginnings of a novel. I haven't done this alone at all either, I owe all my work to my writing partner, my Dad. My computer is full of half starts and almost finished scripts and plays. I love writing, hell I love writing on this blog.

I like video. I like music. I like music videos. I know it is some kind of magical cosmic synergy. Yes, I used synergy in my first real post to the Sprocket blog, sue me. Now I know many of you are asking, 'Derek... don't most music videos suck?' Answer, yes. A lot do. I think a lot of the problem is poor songs to start with and cliche ridden videos that pander to the lowest common denominator. Sometimes, yes sometimes, you hit that synergy (Ha, used it twice) between a great song and a great video to go with it. What got me thinking about all of this music video goodness is that Monte asked if I would be willing to work on a music video for his forthcoming album. Keep checking his blog on this site to find out more info on that as it comes out.