Oh yeah, this one needs to come out of mothballs. Written many years ago by my friend Scott Foley, ex-fellow Columbia teacher, after raising his goal of $25,000 on Kickstarter for his micro-budget project JESSICA. It’s an article he published in two influential blogs, Indiewire and Ted Hope’s blog. It’s the honest backstory of how […]
Mixed Bag Video, Columbia College Special, V 1.0
January 15, 2021
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Writing up blog posts on a sunny July day, what is wrong with you, Peditto? The notion here is that I’ve got tons of videos I use for classes at Columbia College-Chicago stuck on a Canvas site. The time has come to liberate them. The current plan is for these videos to see the light […]
Mr. Blemish
January 2, 2021
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Sal Pelligrino was the man. While no one ever confused him for Brando or Jimmy Dean, his rep was made as the inventor of “The Method”. Not Stanislavsky’s, but his own time tested system. A commercial actor with a knack, Sal could close the deal on any commercial/Extra work he put his mind to, not […]
Sexy Format, V 1.0
December 14, 2020
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Greetings Good Reader… Today’s topic will be…Screenwriting Format! I get it. Nothing could be less sexy. Why should you have to deal with a screenwriting subject that tastes like caster oil (for you Millennials, caster oil was given to us Boomers as a treatment for constipation–which might, in part, explain the current state of the […]
Screenwriting Tips For The Plague Year
November 22, 2020
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WHY I WALKED OUT ON LITTLE CHILDREN I made a vow: “If I hear that voice-over again, I’m walking.” There’s Kate Winslet approaching a playground: “Many times Mary would take her child to the playground.” Kate swings her kid in the swing. “She loved to swing her kid on the swing.” Kate looks to a […]
