"J" Films?  What's all this then?  I'll tell you.  "J" Films is independent filmmaking under director/writer/producer/editor/FX operator/actor Jason Sheedy, or me, unless you'd rather here me speak in 3rd person, which will not be happening...today.  Two more individuals who played humongous roles in helping with the production process of my film, Flirting With Disaster, were Frank Mata and Jimmy Vallarta.

I started making films the instant my parents gave me my video camera.  As you may have imagined, the first films started out like a fat man vowing to lose way next to a one-day only free ice cream stand offering 'all you can eat' specials on uber varieties of delicous treats packed with calories and heartbreak.  My first titles included The Land of the Hobos, and My Friend the Alien.  They were short, hastily edited on a vcr and offered no awe-inspiring images, although they are pretty humorous to watch now.  Nonetheless, we all have to start somewhere, as my dad tells me.  In my case, I suppose I started in a steaming pile of sh-  err, talent!  Yes.  Well, after messing around with a few different 'genres' of film, such as comedies ( An Eccentric Tale of Truth and Beauty), action adventure (Day of the Dinosaur), and horror (Frank's Basement), even though you won't recognize those titles unless you know me, I decided to make a film that would exceed twelve minutes.  Actually, come to think of it, Frank's Basement was about forty-five minutes long, but it was abandoned, and I moved on.  I wanted to give horror another try, and I'd been pitching ideas to do a movie on the Jersey Devil, a creature believed to take residence in the New Jersey Pinebarrens, so I put together a script.  Thanks to spring break and time that seemed to say "You moron!  Why aren't you filming right now!?", my cast, three people counting me, finished the film and it was edited over a period of about two weeks.  Editing was done with a vcr and my actors were never really happy when working on the film so it turned up pretty terrible.  I loved it at first, and I still considerably do, but as for its good movie grade, it'd probably get a C, or maybe a low B, I don't know.  Quite frankly, I don't care.  Moving on.  Cacodaemon, as it was called, ended up about an hour, showing me that I was capable of creating longer films.  But for my next movie, I wanted something with a lot of laughs, featuring a blend of crude humor mixed with a certain inconspicous form of comedy, a sort of 'blind' comedy.  I guess you'd need to see the film to understand what I mean, unless you were me, in which you'd already know what I mean because you'd have come up the explanation.  I also decided it would need action, and lots of persistent violence to assist that action.  In fact, the movie is loaded with it, much of it very realistic, another goal I had wished to achieve.  This movie broke so many barriers against my previous films.  I mean, I bought blank firing pistols, there are make-up effects, gunshot hits with compressed air (search Eejit's guide to filmmaking on the web for more info), and the biggest barrier broken - the barrier of vcr editing.  Yes kids, thanks to Mr. Matt Eber and Mrs. Charlene Nelson, teachers of my computer applications class at my Vocational School at my high school.  Thanks to the class I learned how to use and am currently using Adobe Premiere 6.5 to edit my film.  Let me tell you, non-linear editing is Jesus compared to a vcr.  I couldn't be more pleased with the way the film is turning out.  I plan to show it in my high school auditorium.  I guess I'll have to wait and see how that plays out.  Other than that, I want to try and get it on the web.  Anybody know a site?  Please email me.  (My address is on the home page.)  We started filming over the summer, in July 2003, and I'd say it was pretty much completely done in October, with the exception of some little extras, including riding along in a police car getting some additional shots for the car chase.  The next film I embarked on was a zombie movie, entitled Dead Winter.  I'm currently attending a community Junior College, where I'm getting my Associates in the Arts Degree for Gen. Ed.  I plan to later go to a school in Florida or in California, primarily the top two states for film production.  From there I will hopefully light a match that will ignite the fire of hope, and send me into the film industry ready to create my own "masterpieces"...still got a long way to go.

Updates

       I'm currently preparing work on audio tracks that need fixing and utilizing Adobe After Effects to create some more realistic effects .  I expect it to be done sometime in February or March now. 

       I showed a selection of clips to my art 4 class and the feedback came back positive.  Everyone seemed to like it and is looking forward to seeing the full version.  Good news, eh?

       It's February 10th, and I'd say two to three more weeks and I'll be finished with everything...I hope.  Things seem to be moving along nicely.

The movie is finished!  It will just be a matter of time now to see if it will be playing at a school near you.  Chances are....no.