I’ve got exciting news to share — Nate Campany and Ben Romans are 2 incredibly talented singer/songwriters who’ve come on board to create the original score for NEW YORK LATELY — which also includes some original songs as well. NATE CAMPANY Nate Campany is an incredible artist whose music has so many textures — not to mention amazing lyrics. He has already co-written a song for the film with Susan Cagle (playing Truly Hanssen in the film) — now he [...]
Last month prior to heading to Georgia to shoot DISMAL, I sat down with INDIE PRODUCTION SOURCE to talk about the project and my experiences as a director. The guys (Charles Stewart Jr., Kelly Neilon, Matt Hacker) who run it are really nice and belong to the North Carolina indie film community as well. If you are interested, my interview begins just at about the 08:55 mark — Hope you enjoy it!!! You can visit them at the following sites: [...]
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JOHN WEISENBURGER (Ringo Barnes) John Weisenburger — or Johnny Ringo as we like to call him — is an amazing performer. Oh wait, we’re talking about his acting right? Ok, let me switch gears here. Ok, all kidding aside, I met John through a friend when I first moved out to NY almost 3 years ago. He jumped right in and agreed to help me with my GRIT promotional trailer that I shot back in early 2007. When I saw [...]
During the 2nd week of production, we started getting into the meat and potatoes of the shoot — which included our practical f/x, stunts and night shooting — fun fun fun (in theory). The week started with some great discoveries that I had some seriously talented actors to work with — which always makes things more interesting. I hate to jinx things, but I really believe that one of the actors (Bill Oberst Jr. as DALE — see his pic [...]
BRIDGET TRAMA (Julianne George) I met Bridget when she auditioned in some of the later rounds of the NEW YORK LATELY audition process — and it was a breath of fresh air due to the difficult task we were finding in filling the role of JULIANNE GEORGE. I was looking for a woman with a striking presence, but she couldn’t be terribly young as it would be unrealistic to me. Julianne is marred to ELLIOT GEORGE (a man in his [...]
To recap, I was on location on Blakely, GA — a small, quaint town full of the friendliest people eager to help out our production. However, that area of the state only had Verizon as a carrier — and a major portion of the crew didn’t use them as a cell phone carrier (major problem….major). Day One started out with heavy rain. The locals said it hadn’t rained in the area for MONTHS…but of course on our first day it [...]
I have to keep this entry light today as I’m busy digitizing 19 days of DISMAL footage into my computer. On top of this I also have to sync separate audio files that we recorded for each scene — which is keeping me ultra-busy as I usually don’t like to record audio separately during filming since HD cameras have great audio specs nowadays. Oh well. I plan to tackle another cut of NEW YORK LATELY later this week and next [...]
I’m back!! I’m working on posting some pics this week from the DISMAL set — I just got in after my flight was canceled last night (had to spend the night in Cincinnati, Ohio). The DISMAL shoot was 19-days of fun over 5 weeks in GA. Bugs, rain, poison oak, no cell phone service, no internet, heat heat heat, jam packed shooting days, a stalker in the woods — filmmaking is a blast! I plan to detail some highlights over [...]
So I finally found a place to stay with internet connection — but I’m so beat from shooting the past month that I have no time to really post a detailed update…..but I’ve got soooo much to write about for this production in GA. 4 more shooting days to go on the 18-day shoot. I’ve been in Blakely for close to a month now. Stay tuned…..
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