This is a good news / bad news sort of thing. Good news is I did get a job, fairly quickly AND with a 40% pay increase. The bad news is my ‘creeping malaise’ has been identified as chronic fatigue…
Category: Directing
About my journey as a writer/director/producer.
Hammatime
Some ‘cross posting’ here… I’ve been ‘holding boom’ for my friend John, who was so gracious to do so for Treasure Hunt, not to mention being so supportive and encouraging as I started down the movie making path …
From Echoing Nada to a Peep
This is a follow on to an earlier post. I didn’t even get snarky comments, so decided on a broader, more open-ended one:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/b3q8id/howwhere_to_find_producing_partner/
A peep or twain and I started communication with one fellow writer/director in the DC …
Writer/Director ISO Production Partner. Washington, DC area
I’m sure the traffic at my blog is not enough to matter, but figured, in the interest of the one or two far flung people who might be following my journey, I’d post it here. I put it on Reddit’s …
More on Auditions
I’m almost done with auditions, and about ready to start the agonizing process of selecting who to cast. There have been a number of surprises in this process, though. I was initially contacted by 66 people for one or more …
My First Audition!
Sunday I had my very first audition. Crystal Day lives in Charlottesville, which is much closer to the Shenandoah house than our Maryland house. We were scheduling an audition for Monday night when I discovered this, so suggested she visit …
Editing Myself
This is really an extension of an earlier post on editing.
I’ve been rereading what I feel is becoming my bible on directing, “Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics” by Michael Rabiger and Mick Hurbis-Cherrier, and this morning started …
Feeling Blue
Something different this week: published early, rather than late (my goal is once per week). The last one was something I’d written a while ago, just hadn’t got around to posting, as I’ve been rethinking this whole movie making idea, …
What I (think I) want in a DP
While the director is the main creative force behind a movie, and is ultimately responsible for answering to the producers (and thus to viewers), he or she is the ringmaster in a giant circus and needs lots of help to …
Economics of Indie
I’m being persuaded that I should cut out or rewrite a couple of scenes in my screenplay. On the one hand, I think the way I’ve written it is more visually interesting and tells the story better. On the …