// COLOPHON
This site is six short pages. Set in Courier Prime throughout because it’s the typeface I write scripts and notes in, and because a monospace face keeps the line honest. Built by hand; no framework, no tracker, no script beyond what’s needed to render a page.
Colors: a sage green ( #7A8967) and a linen ( #F0EFE6) against a near-black ( #2A2E22). Named for the two dominant tones in the barn in April: moss on the north side, old plaster on the south.
Illustrations are inline SVG, drawn in the same notebook the films are. The floor plan is approximate; do not use it to reorder the wood stove.
// JARGON, BRIEFLY
- Assembly
- The first screenable version of a film. Long, honest, usually ugly.
- Radio cut
- An audio-only edit used to test whether the story holds without picture.
- Paper edit
- A structural pass done on printed transcripts, before any sequence exists in the NLE.
- Fine cut
- The phase where changes are measured in frames, not seconds, and sound begins in parallel.
- Picture lock
- The moment after which picture cannot change without formally re-opening the edit.
- Conform
- Reassembling the locked edit against camera originals at full resolution for color and delivery.
- AAF / OMF / XML
- Interchange formats used to hand a locked edit to sound or color houses. Each has its own way of lying about timecode.
- DNxHR LB
- A low-bandwidth edit proxy codec. What I ask for when a post house offers to transcode.
- Card wall
- A physical grid of index cards, one per scene, used for structural reasoning. Older than film.
- Green notebook
- Mine. One per project. Scenes on the left, problems on the right.
- In residence
- A director staying in the guest room above the barn for a working stretch. Brings their own tea.
- Mud season
- Between winter and spring in New England. The road is impassable for three weeks. Returns are slow.
// STATUS
Calendar committed through 2026 and most of 2027. The next open window is the spring after “The Long Field” delivers, and that window is smaller than it looks.
The card wall currently holds 84 cards, 6 of them pinned sideways. The wood stove ran twice a day through March. The coffee pot is the same coffee pot as last year.