You’ll often hear people talk of gray characters. Meaning they are neither black nor white, complex, surprising, challenging, resisting cliches. How do you go about doing that, exactly? The toughest part is finding the balance between the good in someone and the not so good. You want a multidimensional protagonist, so you sprinkle in some […]
DAY 11: 4-19-13 Goodbye to the comfortable womb that was our Jackson Avenue Board of Trade Offices. Goodbye to the entire second floor we were living in for a full month, to the hundred $200 buck mesh biz chairs, the snack room, and to the rat that ate director Boris Wexler’s box of chocolates. Haven’t […]
Here’s the latest in the continuing series from the DIY landscape of CHAT. Hopefully those of you about to make your own micro-budgets or eventually want to make one, will glean something from these real-time posts. · DAY 9: 4/13/13 Weekend 4—Saturday. Final two days downtown at our Board Of Trade offices. This is the […]
DAY 4: March 30, 2013 Good Friday weekend. Short day today. Down at our Board of Trade offices shooting a bunch of Mayfair Cams scenes. Today’s work is primarily in the Mary Rose (Caitlin Collins) arc—starting with Mary Rose’s entrance in the Chat model business, following her as Orphan Annie (Marielle de Serra Rocca) […]
Might be pure laziness, but looking around for a blog topic this week it occurred to me that when I closed down my class at Columbia College entitled SURVIVING OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD I had put together a pretty damn good list of micro-budget filmmaking and digital information sources. It would be a shame to see those […]
