http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter.jpg Renne Prince works in film and television as a Standby painter. She blogs weekly about the industry from her P.O.V Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:11:08 +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/thestandbypainter/2010/03/15/a-river-runs-through-it/ 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/thestandbypainter/2010/03/09/working-on-work/ 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/thestandbypainter/2010/03/02/hi-ho-hi-ho-its-off-to-work-i-hope/ Here are some of the things I regret most from my career in film, followed by, just to lighten up all the negativity, some resolutions to prevent similar regrets from occurring in the future.  I think anyone reading these will learn something from my mistakes.  At least I hope they ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2010/02/15/new-years-regrets-and-resolutions/ My sister and her husband are here on a rare visit from the Midwest, and to celebrate, I asked them to see Avatar with our mother and me. It was to be my second viewing of the film, but I had wanted to see Avatar again so I could study ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2010/02/02/avatar-again/ It is now three weeks into my time off from the last film I worked on, which I believe has the potential to be a cinematic gem, if not a classic.  So much depends on so many things that will take place in the editing room, in the decisions about ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2010/01/25/beauty-in-an-american-winter/ Probably all the bloggers on this site and anyone who works in Hollywood or New York in the great business of Show Business knows the name Bernie Brillstein.  Bernie was legendary, managing many of Saturday Night Lives’ stars, including SNL’s creator Lorne Michaels and cast members John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2010/01/19/one-degree-of-separation/ Back from the holidays and they spun past without my noticing, because in spite of Gus’s film having wrapped, I have been caught up in a non-stop work tornado of to-do lists and long-delayed projects.  In fact, I will simply have to check in with this short entry on my ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2010/01/04/home-after-the-holidays/ When you have spent long hours shooting in a tree-shaded graveyard, a very old one with residents who passed away in the mid-1800’s, your thoughts tend to wander along some strange pathways.  We have been working hard, filming among and between all kinds of grave markers, some with inscriptions that ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2009/12/22/synchronicity-on-the-graveyard-shift/ First, a thank you to T. Emerson for your kind comment last week.  I fear that this entry will be short and not a telling of any story.  When I could have written this blog as planned, while waiting over an hour and half at the car repair shop and ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thestandbypainter/2009/12/07/behind-the-movie/