Journaling the victories and stumbles of creating stories.
Don't over extend yourself financially when you make your film. Case in point, when I decided to make my short film 2 AM I wanted to make it for $12,500. That number is relative depending on your socio-economic background (for me it's high AF). I was talking to an executive of a film festival and …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHD3SDToCM&t=14s It's gotta be the shoes. Steven Speilberg is a master storyteller and this shot from Catch Me If You Can is one of the reasons why. The setup is simple Frank,Leonardo Dicaprio's character is walking to his hotel room and he catches the eye of a model played by Jennifer Garner. I'm sure the …
Kelly Askam (sound mix), Natalie Reinholtz (director of photography) Cody Healy (gaffer)photo Sabrina Alexander It's been a while since I posted so I wanted to talk about what I've learned since wrapping on our shoot. I have to talk to my team about what's going on. I ran into an issue with renting equipment. It …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3F9n_smGWY This is Linda Fairstein's least favorite mini series. People, people we are the sameNo we're not the same'Cause we don't know the gameFight the Power by Public Enemy I recently watched the first episode of Ava DuVernay's When They See Us. To be honest I had to pause it in the middle to look up …
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If you haven’t heard Jason Mitchell was fired from Showtime’s The Chi and Netflix’s film Desperados. We don’t know the specifics of what he’s allegedly done but we do know that whatever it was it got him let go by his reps. He allegedly harassed his co-star, Tiffany Boone on The Chi, it got so bad that she had her fiancé …
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Hidden Brain and Shankar Vedantam was talking about the likely hood of coming from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top is 7% according to a study, don't ask me where the study comes from but a similar study was cited in the Freakonomics …
Roma reminds me how beautiful black and white can be. I was talking to a potential editor about my project and he asked if it was going to be shot in black and white since it's a film noir. I thought about it and I responded I'm not sure. The most important question is how …
The Oscars was last night and a lot of people are upset that Green Book won. While the Oscars are very prestigious, it doesn't mean as much as people may think. My favorite moment in the Oscars is Driving Miss Daisy winning over Do the Right Thing. Looking back I think most serious film fans …
When we set our mind to our goals, we start to notice opportunities.
I don't know if you've been following the Jussie Smollett saga but it looks like he may have lied about being attacked. I made a joke about it on my Facebook page but this morning I saw a Facebook live post from my casting director talking about kicking people while they're down. After watching it …
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