On screen my dad has a small role in the movie, behind the camera though the old man had about as big a part in the production as any of the rest of the crew. He is a fan of westerns, so the idea of him not just helping to make mine, but also being Read More…
Category: The Backlot
Backup Mules
This is one of the unique things about me and my particular approach in attempting to produce a movie. I decided to make an ultra low budget western, mainly because I liked the script I had written, I dig westerns, but also as a way to set our film apart from others in the same 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…
So what sort of movie am I making
At the outset I quickly aimed to write a horror movie. The final script veered toward horror/thriller, but the core elements are still rooted in horror. I won’t get into plot or story here, but as I’ve mentioned before a couple times what I could do dictated what I set out to do (again all Read More…