If your DP and you haven’t shot something, with purpose, prior to your first day on set you’re obviously going to have a number of rough moments at the start. Now when I say ‘with purpose’ I mean something that is on a schedule and is aiming at a final product. Think a short or Read More…
Category: After the fact
Not your job… yet!
I, along with pretty much everyone else who worked on the film, have a day job. For me personally I run a big machine at a factory. Now my assumption is that all of the folks who aided in the production would like to be working professionally in film, but none of us are getting Read More…
Can’t pay folks and don’t want to ask them to work for free
Ask anyway. I was cool with asking actors to work for nothing, they wanted to. I was cool with asking a cinematographer to work for free, in my case they wanted to get a feature under their belt. Similarly, but to a lesser extent the same goes for your effects team, costumer, and most anyone Read More…
Snippets on Lessons Learned
So, after writing a script and planning and working for nearly two years I directed a movie. As of this writing that movie is still being edited and we are working through post production. But with a little time on my hands I want to write about my experience. This blog was meant to sort Read More…