Sunday, October 4, 2009

Heard From Afar ...

Apparently, one of the regular Stargate SG1 directors once said the following after a long frustrating argument with the network over some script issue:

"I'll show them! I'll shoot the script exactly as written!"

LOL

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Back in action

With the November 4th deadline (when we head out to LA to sell our feature films) fast approaching there simply hasn't been time to do a good job with this blog. However, I want to keep it alive so I'm going to switch gears over the next month and share some of our accumulated multimedia on those days I don't have time for a length information post.

First up is an outtake from a recent audio recording session. You can never overestimate how valuable it is to allow talented actors some freedom to improvise. Control freak directors who handcuff their actors are never going to have as deep or rich a wealth of material to work with in the editing room as more relaxed directors.

In these cases, the more broad you give your direction, the more freedom you allow your actors and the better the end result should be. Listen here as we give two actors, Robert Richard Wagner and Alexa Yeames some freedom to work. We didn't ultimately end up using any of this particular material, which is why I'm sharing it here, but you can hear the process and hear them working towards something. It's not always going to be perfect, but in this session we ended up with half a dozen excellent takes we're using for our feature film.

Audio Session Outtakes (Click link or right click to download)