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SCALING MOUNT EVEREST, or, How To Be An Artist and A Healthy Person Too

So, a few days ago, I held the first bout of auditions for the short film I'm working on this semester. This has proved, time and again, to be far more challenging and time-consuming than I ever predicted it to be. I remember from auditioning for Life After Film School just how intimidating it can be as the person coming in to be judged by three relative strangers. What I never used to realize is how intimidating it is to be the director who must be totally prepared and in control as he meets ten or forty actors in the...

The Diplomat

2009 has come and gone, and with it the recent Copenhagen Summit on climate change.  With the specter of the summit behind us, I felt it an opportune time to talk about my first experience as an Assistant Director.In the scope of a twelve-hour production day, about twenty minutes may be spent actually filming anything.  (Roughly two of those minutes - hopefully - end up in the final product.)  Another forty minutes may be spent doing 'blocking rehearsals,' or rehearsals performed so that the crew knows where the action is taking place in the next scene.  During these 60 minutes...

Keep Dreaming

Codie Elaine Brooks, a fellow Life After Film School co-host, recently blogged about our interview with Brad Falchuk, the co-creator and executive producer of the new Fox series Glee.  As Codie mentioned, he's also the co-founder of the Young Storytellers Foundation.The Young Storytellers Foundation (YSF) teams adults - writers, filmmakers, actors, film students - with 4th and 5th graders from targeted schools who (per the YSF website) "have little or no access to the arts."  For one hour each week, for seven weeks, the mentors "guide and encourage the students as they imagine and develop their own short screenplay."Hey, let's...