You’ve got your script. You’ve conned someone into being your producer. You’re starting to get the locations together, you’re thinking about what camera you’re going to shoot on but you need one of the most important departments of filmmaking sorted before you move too much further forward. The actors. Without actors, you don’t have much …
Pre-Production: Auditions – Part 01
I am delighted to report that regardless of any qualms or nerves expressed in previous posts, the auditions for With A Little Help From Our Friends went mind-blowingly well. I’ll break down the process during the week, but in summary (at the beginning, I know, it’s a bit weird) we had: – Roughly 100 applications …
Pre-Production: Organising Auditions; A Cautionary Tale
Operation: Playstation This week has been entirely flat out for me. Not only did we lose a day to a three day weekend (trust me, I am not complaining about that in the slightest!), but my ‘normal’ nine-to-five job has kicked up a notch in the past two weeks and it’s all go go go …
Call to Arms
So it begins. The hunt for actors. I’m holding auditions this Sunday up in High Barnet and my fingers are crossed that there will be a few people who actually show up. I know that it can be really hard to get actors to get excited about a film that they’re not being paid for, …
Thinking Outside The Box
Hi everyone! Sorry the blog post is a little later than usual this week – it’s been a crazy few days in Londonia, as well as trying to figure out what we’re going to do about our location problems. If you caught last week’s blog post, you’ll know that we’re having some issues trying to …
Opportunity Knocks.
The tricky thing about filmmaking is getting things made. Yep, I can already hear your derisive snort, quickly followed by ‘Well, duh.’ After all, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. Arguably, it is easier now than it’s ever been before and thus the tricky thing becomes making things of quality to stand …