Originally posted on the NEW BREED site WHAT’S UP LOVELY is my 3rd feature film — but the first project in which I allowed for time to reshoot the film and do pickups. It helped tremendously.
***This article was originally posted on The Workbook Project’s NEW BREED website on September 26, 2009*** Earlier this month, I posted a blog about making a film and facing its praise and criticism (you can read it here). The main question it led to was this: How do you find your audience — so they can find YOU? What I mean by this is we as filmmakers first need to find an audience (i.e distribution) to get our films out [...]
For background history on the film project – visit my previous New Breed Article: “A LOVELY Filmmaking Process” Having achieved picture lock with WHAT’S UP LOVELY, I feel that I am now able to fully cover the details of the decision-making process during the editing stage — and how engaging with test audiences affected its final outcome. Mind you, we are still in post-production as of this writing (currently getting the score and sound work done) so never say never, [...]
FOREWORD: In shooting “What’s Up Lovely” there were several techniques that I had to use in order to keep the costs down. Working with a micro-budget forces one to be very resourceful and aware of one’s limitations (sometimes in a good way….sometimes not). With this film, not having much money meant that the locations we chose either had to be in a place that someone could help us secure for no fee (i.e. a friend’s place, someone’s workplace, etc) or [...]
My article “A LOVELY Test Screening” for the NEW BREED is now featured on THE WORKBOOK PROJECT. The NEW BREED is a group blog centered on all things associated with DIY filmmaking. It features a host of film projects in various phases from script to screen. If you haven’t visited it yet, I highly suggest you head on over to learn about a diverse group of filmmakers paving their own way and sharing their learning lessons. I took a screenshot [...]
I am very proud to announce that I am now included in an illustrious group of filmmakers — a collective known as NEW BREED. Its curator — filmmaker Zak Forsman — is a tour-de-force in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) filmmaking realm. He took notice to my latest feature film project WHAT’S UP LOVELY and invited me to contribute my experiences of creating a film with very little money and “traditional” resources. NEW BREED is part of the larger group known as [...]
Originally posted on NEW BREED on August 10, 2009 Since this is my first post for NEW BREED, I wish to introduce myself and let everyone know how excited I am to be included in this film movement. These are exciting times and to be participating with such a collection of talented and emerging filmmakers is an honor. WHAT’S UP LOVELY (currently in post-production) is my latest DIY feature film. I will never forget the way it transpired and how [...]
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