Responsibility vs. Credit

The movie is a thing that springs from me; by that I mean I conceived it, I wrote it, I designed the sets and built them, I directed the thing and edited the final product together. And thus responsibility for that final product rests with me. Conversely I will take very little credit for what Read More…

Jake and the city folk

I am not put off by identifying myself as a redneck (obviously with the name of the blog and whatnot), but in comparison to my older brother I might be considered pretty much citified. Jake became a huge part of the film making process. He worked on constructing our cabin sets about as much as Read More…

Money, Part Two

Previously I talked about crowdfunding and how a lot of passion and no track record doesn’t really get you much in terms of financial support through kickstarter or indiegogo these days. For this I want to talk about a different way to acquire funds. One that might add a little more stress to your already 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…

Money, Part One

  Crowdfunding So I have a view of crowdfunding that is probably a fairly common one. I think it has burned itself out as a place to get front end money for creative endeavors. Essentially Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and even new options like Seed & Spark are of little value to a no-name creative type with Read More…