So verging on a decade from looking out at the farm and asking myself what sort of movie I could realistically, but challenge myself, to make the movie can be watched by strangers. It is an odd/glorious/fearful thought, but most of all it is a relaxing one. There is still work to be done, but Read More…
Category: After the fact
The difference between Craft & Work
Saying that a person’s craft and their work are the same thing is a view point I would disagree with. Then there is the idea that work is a thing many folks have to do to make money while using one’s craft is a thing some people feel lucky to get paid to do. Perhaps Read More…
A Quiet Circle
In the last post I talked about having a complicated day of shooting and how we shifted roles and managed to get through a good portion of our day’s filming. The ‘day’ part of filming held a number of challenges and we got through them relatively smoothly. The ‘night’ part held different challenges and we Read More…
Two Unit Day
As about any micro-budget, independent, bootstrap, blah blah blah production we did a lot with a small crew. I’ve mentioned some of this before; our AD handling stuff like continuity, our FX and make-up department was one hard working lady, our key grip/gaffer/electrical was one hard working dude. And then our Cinematography duo were also Read More…
The Scramble for a New Location
I mentioned losing access to a location a week or so before our shoot was to begin a few posts ago. The details of how I lost the ability to use the ready made location are irrelevant to this discussion, but the anxiety of the incident and subsequent hunt for a new location is not. Read More…
When no one is getting paid & everyone is looking forward to lunch
There is a cliche in low budget, everyone working for free, film making; Pizza is something you can feed everyone with for cheap, but shouldn’t. The flip side of this is the idea that if you feed everyone well they’ll forget they’re giving you days of labor for essentially nothing. On our movie we didn’t Read More…
An Insane Man’s Schedule
First an excuse; I’m a man that is constantly in a fantasy land. By that I mean I make up shit in my head. Sometimes I write it down and share it with other folk, a lot of the time I don’t. My point being that I sometimes have a tenuous grasp of reality. And Read More…
Little moments of unforeseen joy
As I think I’ve said a few times in these recent posts, I spent a fair amount of filming stressed out, and rarely enjoying the moments. I was always either very focused on what was happening in front of the cameras or thinking about what we had to do next. I wouldn’t have been opposed Read More…