http://filmindustrybloggers.com http://filmindustrybloggers.com.jpg A Community of Film Industry professionals who blog about Hollywood and the Film world. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another week has gone by and it appears that my email to the television series production office passed from my friend’s hands straight into the art department Maelstrom of the Lost.  Things will get crazy over there and everyone will need help and they’ll all have to work overtime, and ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/03/16/the-standby-painter-a-river-runs-through-it/ Times are tough for background actors right now. Production is down all around. More regular shows than usual have shut down production early and pilots didn’t kick in the last week of February as we'd hoped. But nearly into what looks to be the first real pilot season in three ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/03/10/the-background-actor-campus-networking-for-an-old-guy/ A brief update on the work in progress of the progress in finding work.  I delayed that phone call to the TV series production office until the end of the week, managing to fill Monday through Thursday with various unimportant tasks and long periods of reading books on Jung while ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/03/09/the-standby-painter-working-on-work/ Very few directors have final cut. It’s great that Kathryn Bigelow protected her vision by demanding and receiving the coverted I Did It My Way.                           THE HURT LOCKER tensely depicts the heroism of a bomb squad and through it reveals our adrenaline fueled addiction to war. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/03/02/the-genre-director-the-hurt-locker-final-cut-marketing-censorship-director%e2%80%99s-vision-and-related-issues/ I didn’t intend to miss a week of my blog here and there, but tax time combined with my usual end-of-the-show, now-I-can-get-really-sick illness.  Somehow my body always knows when I can afford to get the latest flu and safely collapse into a total viral meltdown, which is just after a ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/03/02/the-standby-painter-hi-ho-hi-ho-it%e2%80%99s-off-to-work-i-hope/ Time’s running out!  Don’t delay another second. RSVP NOW: http://ah-feb10.eventbee.com “Makin’ It!” - A Special Awards Season Panel Wednesday, March 3, 2010 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Maggiano’s Little Italy 3rd & Fairfax (189 The Grove Drive) Hollywood, CA 90036 RSVP NOW: http://ah-feb10.eventbee.com Join us in welcoming: Romell Foster-Owens, Award winning Producer-Director (Moderator) Millicent Shelton, Award winning Director Forrest Murray, Award winning ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-manager-%e2%80%9cmakin%e2%80%99-it%e2%80%9d-a-special-awards-season-panel-on-e-scensioncom/ A really odd thing happened to me this most recent Thursday and Friday.  Actually, it happened four times in 48 hours. That's what made it so odd.  I auditioned for four different productions in four different locations in two days in a row. Those who read my posts regularly (2 people, ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/02/28/the-background-actor-auditioning-the-next-step-for-extras/ Maybe… but I guess it is good to know exactly what it is before you agree to give away a percentage of your funds raised to do it. One company that offers this program explains it this way… Fiscal Sponsorship is a financial and legal system by which a legally recognized ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-documentary-producer-does-my-documentary-need-fiscal-sponsorship/ My background acting career began on the East Coast and 95% of my jobs back there were major studio feature films. From the James Bond film, Licence to Kill, to the extraordinarily bad Burt Reynolds movie Cop and A Half, I've spent lots of time as ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/02/21/the-background-actor-often-the-quirky-little-ones-are-the-most-satisfying/ When you freelance as a storyboard artist your client will frequently ask you, “how fast are you?” This goes into how many frames can you do in “X” amount of time. You’ll only really find this answer after actually being in the field and doing different types of jobs. Storyboards that are ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/blog/2010/02/20/the-storyboard-artist-%e2%80%9cof-course-the-storyboards-will-be-on-time%e2%80%9d/