Wednesday, January 25, 2012

DIRECTORS VLOGS FROM PRODUCTION COMING

I really wanted to capture as much as I could on my IPHONE of the experience of making THE RED ROBIN.  I wanted to do it for me, my wife and children(when they are older and want to see what I was doing when they were just tater tots), and for anyone who was remotely interested in seeing behind the curtain and watching how a movie--our little blue train--makes it from beginning to end.

What's so great about camera phones is that you can really capture any moment...without being "that annoying person with a camera" I caught A LOT of real  verite moments from preproduction rehearsals, table reads, to actual interactions between myself and the cast/crew.  None of this would be as interesting as, say, watching Peter Jackson's blog on LOTR or THE HOBBIT(something I love to do because I can't wait to see the next installment and I love watching Peter soak in his passion) but whether you have epic set pieces or something modest like a low budget indie thriller taking place in one house in one night, the same rules of filmmaking apply.  Lessons can be learned from the smallest productions and knowledge gleaned.  

I haven't had much time to get all of the VLOGS uploaded until now...and thankfully they are in order...I think I may even go back as far as last April when I was raising some money on Kickstarter!  Just interesting to see the evolution of my face--from having a jawline and chin to having 2 extra chins, a face full of hair and a crop of messed up hair...that's what film does to you...on the outside!

Anyway, I will try and give a linear sense of the making of the film as seen through my IPHONE....and hopefully it will convey, if nothing else, how much I really enjoyed watching my third child leave the comforts (and confines) of my imagination and go out into the real world and be treated so lovingly by all these incredible creative people who worked on the film.


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