http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker.jpg A Film Blog from an Independent Filmmaker trying to make it in Hollywood Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:56:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes while making a film you'll find yourself working with people that you just don't connect with.  No matter what you do you cannot communicate.  I've found this a couple times and have fortunately gotten pretty good at spotting people I know I'm going to conflict with before ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2010/02/13/energy-suckers/ There are many things in Hollywood I wish weren't the way they are but my job is not to change the system, it's to make movies within it.  However, there is one thing that happens in Hollywood that I dislike that I actually do myself.  And it's not going to ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/08/05/the-first-thirty/ This week I realized that for the majority of my working life the economy has been good.  Ever since I had my first jobs in high school I never had trouble finding employment.  I'm sure lots of factors played in to that, but I don't think I ever felt the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/07/10/down-time-equals-prep-time/ Alright, I did not write this, but I found it this week while I was tidying up my computer and I thought I'd share it.  I wish I knew who did write it so I could attribute it, but I don't so don't sue me whoever you are.  Anyway, it's ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/05/26/why-student-films-suck/ Last week I got in a car accident.  I'm ok and it wasn't my fault so that's good.  Actually it was a pretty funny situation of a 16 year old boy being distracted by some cute girls that caused it and I suspect will end up in one of my ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/04/28/keeping-healthy-in-hollywood/ Truth is a funny thing in Hollywood.  When you're a kid you're told to always tell the truth.  It's a non-negotiable fact.  One of the hard moral lines of the world.  Nice though that is for fairy tales and Catholic school it's not really my experience. What I have found about ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/04/10/relatively-speaking/ I'm in post right now on the short film I shot a couple weeks ago and I love the editing process.  It's like writing without all the pressure of the entirely blank page. The way I work with my editor is to first give him some time alone with the project.  ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/03/14/cutting-it-up/ This week I got invited to screen my commercial, Viesso: Couch Therapy, at The Be Film Festival in New York.  And you know what?  Hell yeah! Is it the biggest film festival world?  No.  Has anyone ever even heard of it?  Perhaps not.  But you know what?  I don't care.  It ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/03/03/relishing-in-the-little-things/ The Script INT. SUBWAY STATION PLATFORM - MORNING The last passengers are boarding the train. The doors chime and we see JEAN, 41, holding a cup of coffee and clutching a folded paper beneath her arm, standing on the edge of the platform looking rather disconsolate. The doors close and the train ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/02/20/anatomy-of-a-shot/ Last night I had a nightmare.  Here's what it was... I was sleeping and it was the day of the first night shoot of my film.  I was awakened by what seemed like my entire crew wanting to have a production meeting in my living room.  I got up and joined ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theindependentfilmmaker/2009/02/15/thats-a-wrap/