Once

This movie is AMAZING!
Once is a masterpiece that unlocks the deep emotions felt by people in love through inspiring music. It's not some magical romance, nor is it a chick flick. Truly, it captures the reality of love. It's work and it's inspirational. The cinematography was interesting, the director John Carney chose a very real, unstable style with many unique shots and angles. Very much a work of art... and as some critics say "nearly perfect".
I HAVE TO GET THE SOUNDTRACK!
It's so passionate; very Damien-Rice-esque.

If you get the chance, Go see this movie!!!

A good one to watch...

I really enjoyed watching the movie The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.
I suggest you check it out, especially if you are or want to be a mother.

2nd AD.

Production has begun on "Why Do I Look Like My Father?" and I have been given more responsiblity on this set as 2nd assistant director. Its exciting! A somewhat more structured producing machine than Bicycle Bobby, I have learned alot more about movie making on this set which I can use in the future. Part of my responsiblities is to wrangle talent, but since the set is very tight on space its near impossible feat to fufill and normally they hear Carolyn and by the time I get over there they're out of make up and on set. Heh, Maybe I'll get the hang of anticipating my superiors one day.

Our location is in South Dallas which really sets up the tone for this movie about how Raymond's relationship with his abusive father affects his family. We're shooting it on a Panasonic DVX100B (love this camera). They are shooting it in normal 3:4 aspect ratio then dropping in the 16:9 frames. Lighting is supurb! When making my own production I'm really going to want to invest in a good lighting tech (and of course someone skilled with audio). Those two things are what takes an amature look to golden professional quality.

I am going to love watching this film come together in its final stages.

Joined IndieClub

So tonight I had a crew meeting and then a IndieClub meeting. Met the crew (several from Bicycle Bobby which was nice). Had dinner (Cajun catfish, mmm!). And listened to Jon Keeyes speak about his filmmaking experiences.

Jon Keeyes has made several horror indie feature films and has made a profit on them all. This is very VERY hard to do. But with the right determination, His first film gathered a large enough underground following to make money and then land him directing jobs with production companies that were able to help him with distribution (which often relies in part on the foreign market).

He started off in journalism and as a script reader for large production companies. He had thought about being a writer, his words of wisdom on that were to TRULY learn how to write a screen play (suggested book "How not to write a screenplay"). The script readers will immediately throw away your script if it isn't formatted correctly and if you get past that they will give you 10 pages to prove yourself.

He talked about many aspects of production and really pushed that a filmmaker should learn everything they can to hone their skills and make them their own. It was a great evening.

Afterwards I had a white-knuckle drive home through the end of the tornado weather. Pretty sweet lightning. Hydroplaning sucks. But I made it home alive on the last of my gas (hope I make it to the gas station in the morning).

PS. Newbie actors... I have a request for you: Learn everything you can from books and the like and take film lessons for at least a year and then ask questions. And not to filmmakers but to other actors and acting coaches. I'd be happy to tell anyone about the do's and don'ts of getting into acting for film, shoot me a comment or message.