Actors and bad acting.

Note: This is just cool picture one of my movies, not necessarily having to do with bad acting or directing.

 

Rule #1. Bad acting is Always the Directors fault, not the Actors.

Rule #2. Bad lines and shallow character is due to bad script writing, and once again to bad directing.

Rule #3. Directors can make good acting look mediocre by not backing it up with the shot "other". Inappropriate lighting, poor sound, bad location, poor choices in shots and angels.

Rule #4. Editors can make good acting look terrible by choosing the wrong takes.

Extra Rule For Actors #1. Actors are not paid to act, but to hurry up, and wait around to act.

Naturally, some actors are better than others. But in film more than any other medium (like stage for eg.) even the worst actors can be made to look good, and the best actors made to look terrible.

Paul Butler interviews with Doug Phillips and Isaac Botkin

     If you want to listen to some good audio interviews with Doug Phillips, Isaac Botkin, I found some at this blog:

Paul Butler’s Production Blog Good stuff take a listen!

Amazing Math, Almost there!

My dolly with 10ft 3/4" PVC rails.

     Well, we finally got back to filming of Amazing Math, and almost got dun the feature, within a few shots actually. We will still have some special features to work on after that, but they will mostly be VO and come much quicker. I was really happy with the stuff we got to day, some of it was really , really good. We are truly blessed to have such amazing actors working with us on this!

My Dad going over a scene with TT and Bebo

With limited space, sometimes you have to turn the camera sideways to get a full shot.

Our Cat...

It will be interesting to see how this set of green screen images look after import. Also, I will not be posting for the next few days. out next filming session is on Wednesday, so expect a post by or on thursday.

I don't know what to post about...

I have not worked on video stuff for a wile due to various things, like passion play, so I don't have much to post. I read Blog readers like lists, so here are some things listed:

Videos I know I am editing this summer in no particular order:

1. Wedding Video for Amazing Map and Math Music Gal
   
2. Wedding Video for my cousin
   
3. HAMP Short Film
   
4. Amazing Math Video

Gume Shoe

     Gum Shoe is a story about a Kid who is also a secret agent, and thinks his parents don't know it. However, when "Aliens" are discovered on earth, he is sent to investigate, only to discover that not only have his parents known the hole time, but that Aliens actually want him!

     Gum Shoe was made in 2005-06 and was shot with a film festival in mind. Needless to-say, it didn't get accepted, I wasn't to disappointed however, as it was for me, a great sucses.
Gum Shoe was the first film where I made contous efert on pre-production, such as several drafts of the script, and a story board. Gum Shoe was a sucess to me, mostly becous it turned out looking amost exactly like I had emagened it in my minde, a first for me. I knew the story was a bit lacking, but I has very happy with the peroduction values I saw in it.

     Even today, I am very impressed wit the shots. See the project was conceived one night during a snow fall, with big snow flakes, they would slowly fall through the street lights. And I wanted to find a story where I could use that as a background. It was just so moody, and beautiful. The scene that I came up with almost immediately was that of a young boy meeting a shadowy agent under a street light at night. So that is want the hole story was based around. But it didn't snow, instead it got really fogy, and I liked how that looked to. so I called up my actors and said "tonight is the night!" and we did it.

     I also did all my own scoring (music) for this film for the first time ever. I have not done scoring so extensively from scratch since. And am quite proud of what I did with it. It was all recorded in GarageBand with my midi Keyboard.

     I have included all my story boards here for you to view. You will find that I followed them almost to a tee, with only a few changes. I started out with pencil and paper, but it became to tedious, so I did them all in the Gimp.

Amazing Math: Mountain Forest Ruin

You may have noticed a lack of posts recently, that is because I have been in Drumheller AB acting in the Canadian Badlands Passion Play! This weekend is our last set of shows.