thoughts escaping my mind
Well, after months of writing, auditioning, casting, it now all comes together.
Tomorrow, we start the shoot of our new television show, PG. I get to direct two episodes in this season and it’s my first time handling full episodes of a comedy. Continue reading “Guiding a new show”
Today, I was auditioning some more kids for the new show I’m doing.
I was trying to get an eleven-year old boy to relate to me an incident that made him angry. Something that his friend irritated him about. So I could show him how he’d gotten angry a little bit at a time till he flared up and lost it.
But he misunderstood. He said, “Yah, I remember I was very angry.” Continue reading ““I woke up angry””
As I had the opportunity of directing parts of my own script, I began to see what it is that directors are looking for.
When I thought about how to shoot a particular scene, I thought, how can I make this more visually interesting, or visually funny that would enhance what I’ve written. It wasn’t always easy, especially when it’s a talky scene with not much happening. Continue reading “Acting is all about giving”
How I wish I could remember what it was like to be a child. Continue reading “Kiddy logic”
Hindsight is 20/20.
But at least no one needs to know where you screwed up.
But when you direct a show, and watch your editor go through the stuff you’ve done, you really want to knock yourself on the head and ask “Why didn’t I see that? Why didn’t I get that right?”
Suddenly it seems all so clear, everything you should have seen on the day of the shoot. Should have spotted on the shoot. Should have fixed on the shoot. Should have told the actor this and that.
Now you’re stuck with the commitments you made, imprinted on tape and you can’t erase it. It’s got to go on air.
And you pray and hope hard, no one else has 20/20 when they watch what you’ve done.