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Michael Gruich Jr.

Keep the faith, and all the best of life to you as well

About Me



My Interests

Just getting into editing film:After Effects, Photoshop CS3, Vegas 7, Visionlab Studio, Mask Pro.Current Projects: *Civil War Footage from re-enactment *Fitness Video with J. Hatch *State Of Iowa Education film. *Midwest Studio Showcase

I'd like to meet:

This is my first directing project. A commercial called Karaoke Lunch for the Heinz TV contest.Filmed in Lamoni, IATurn the volume up! cool ending! : )

Music:

Stone Sour, SRV, ZZ TOP, LIFEHOUSE, EAGLES, CREED, BOWLING FOR SOUP, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, FUEL, REM, AND 80's MUSIC.

Movies:

The Man WHo Knew Too Little, Office Space, Space Balls, 3 Amigos, Star Wars Saga, Elf, Die Hard, Raiders of the lost arc (*series), Galaxy Quest, Team America, Superman Movies, Beautiful Smile, Employee Of The Month, Clerks I & II (I have a credit in the trailer : ), thanks Kevin!)

Television:

The Office, Family Guy, Reno 911, no other good shows on, I don't take TV seriously at all. I Watch History Channel, Food Network, and Discovery Channel.

Books:

I do not read much other than technical, writing and film books these days, real boring stuff.

Heroes:

Anyone who stands up for what the believe in, or helps others in need. It is easy to be a complainer and blame your troubles on others. The "Hero" (man or women) keeps working, dreaming of better things, and keeping it real!

My Blog

It had to happen sometime!

        This is what happens when you get a creative thinker involved with things. It seems that after being involved with film and lighting for a year in a half I h...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:25:00 PST

Iowa Motion Picture Association

Great News Today!     Thanks to the great state of Iowa, the Iowa Motion Picture Association is offering classes at DMACC in Ankeny, IA. When the weekend course is completed, I will have a n...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:33:00 PST

MY 10 things

My 10 things (feel free to post your own) 1)      More than anything I miss my family in Austin, TX and Mississippi. 2)      I am probably the luck...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:14:00 PST

My New Career in FILM!

For those of you who know me&&..   You are aware that I love to be creative, have been writing for fun most of my life. For the last several weeks I have come across more than I could imagine try...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST

Winter Vacation

   We just made it back from a Winter trip to Orlando. Posted some photos for everyone to see. It felt good to get away for even a short while. Too bad we had to save 2.5 years for this trip...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:10:00 PST

My Grandmother 10/8/1929 - 8/24/2006

Jeannene L. (Jeanie) Malone 10/8/1929  8/24/2006       Looking back when I was young, You were always there. Even today it is harder than I expected to get used to being without you. I...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:02:00 PST

Talladega

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Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:33:00 PST

Movie Being Made

***NEW****   Have a serious new project I am working on. A short film I wrote called "Beautiful Smile". The camera guy is no other than Aaron Nugent, and everything is coming together quite nice....
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:38:00 PST

Somebody Stop Me!!!!!!

The luck is on a streak! Last night I won a cake raffle at the volley ball game. The only thing sweeter than the double chocolate cake, was Kayla's awesome spike in the second game. In your "Face" Le...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:47:00 PST

The PR people are calling already!

I have been announced as the official winner of the contest now and have taken 2 very important calls from Barb (Travel Agent) and Eloise (Marketing Rep). Here are the details: Flight is from Des Moi...
Posted by Michael Gruich Jr. on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:33:00 PST