Being a writer or filmmaker means that you can do this really awesome thing. I don’t mean making a profound movie that touches people’s hearts – although that is really ace. I don’t mean getting to work with amazing cast and crew and all working together to make something beautiful – although that rocks. I …
Production: Day Two, Part One.
For Day One, Part One, click here!For Day One, Part Two, click here! Day Two dawned chilly. I woke up early as I wanted to hit up our location at about 8.30am to start dressing the set – it was the one day that we had proper set dressing. I’d mocked up a bunch of …
Production: Day One; Part One
Day one of With A Little Help From Our Friends was a late start. Because the location we’d managed to get was a theatre school, they had students in there until 1pm. So we scheduled the call time to be at 1pm on Saturday and we planned to wrap at 5pm and shoot two (and …
The Countdown: Five Days Until We Shoot
It’s Monday already? Gosh, where did last week go? We’ve been busy in the ‘With A Little Help From Our Friends’ production office (and by that, I mean we’re all working out of our respective bedrooms) and suddenly we’re five days out from shooting. This week is out last chance to get everything in place …
Of Learning Lines and an Abundance of Laughter: First Rehearsal
Sunday morning dawned chilly and frosty but it didn’t deter me – it was our first rehearsal day for With A Little Help From Our Friends. First rehearsals are pretty special things. You get the cast coming together for the first time. You often get the main heads of department showing up as well to …
Pre-Production: Cast List
Auditions are done. Tough decisions have to be made. In this particular film, it is vital that the comradery between the actors is right, that they all look compatible as best friends, that they all look right on screen together. Don’t ask me what right looks like because it’s different for every filmmaker. This film …
Pre-Production: Auditions Part 05
For my previous posts on auditions, choose the one you want and click: A Cautionary Tale, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. When we last left talking about auditions, we were nearly ready to have the actors walk into the space and do their thing. Before you get there, you have to book …
Updates!
Sorry for the radio silence over the past two weeks, but I’m back and ready to go! A quick update on where we’re at with the film: We’ve had to shift the shoot date by two weeks, due to a couple of little things popping up, so we are now not shooting until November. This …
Swapping, Changing, Compromising – Locations
Taking a break from talking about auditions and casting (although we’re nearly done there, I promise!), I thought I’d let you guys know what’s been happening with organising locations. About a month ago, I blogged about how we had managed to find a location but were still locking in dates. After casting, one of the …
Pre-Production: Auditions Part 03
The casting call. It’s tough. Like I outlined in my post from earlier this week, the casting call is your pitch to actors. You want to inspire them to get involved in the project. You want them to take the time to click the ‘Apply’ button. You want them to want to give up their …