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…
Director & Cinematographer
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…
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…
How I failed at the blog in 2016
All the reasons I started the blog were things I truly wanted, but time is a fickle thing. Sitting down and typing out some thoughts at the end of the day seems like an easy thing, but in the build up of pre-production I was wearing far too many hats and the ‘blogger’ hat was 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…