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·         DAY 17, 5-3-2013 Last full weekend. Celebration is not  in the air as we roll up to the Falcon’s Home location at midnight to discover a small miscommunication. The “location” is an apartment unit occupied by living owners who had thought the filming of CHAT was done two weeks before.  They were preparing for […]

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) […]