LB’S NOTE: It takes four qualities to be a true artist:
In this piece, Bri Castellini proves she’s got it all.
I don’t know how to write about sexuality. I absolutely don’t know how to write about mine. Because for most of my life, and all of my dating life, I was, for all intents and purposes, a heterosexual woman.
[Last week we] wrapped principal production on Sam and Pat Are Depressed season 2 today, almost exactly a year after we wrapped production on season 1, and I can’t quite wrap my head around that feat. We shot 48 pages of script in 4 days, which, for those of you outside the film industry, is “bananas,” to quote my DP Conor.
We hit 100% on our little Seed&Spark campaign in 15 hours, then eventually hit 253%, which allowed us to splurge on things like more food for cast/crew on shoot dates, production design, wardrobe, and more. This season looks fricking incredible, and it’s because of this little community we’ve built, of friends new and old, and I’m so beyond grateful. As is common when I finish productions, this is a thank you blog.
Actors and writers share a common purpose, do we not, that of communications?
Specifically, it’s up to the writers to communicate character and story via text and subtext, and it’s up to the actors to bring the text and subtext alive for the audience.
And yet – there are so many conflicts between the two subdivisions (for lack of a better name) throughout pre-production, production, and post-production of every TV episode and film that sometimes it seems impossible for both writers and actors to share the same goal…
Reporter’s Q.: What’s the worst habit a screen (or TV) writer can have?
Producer’s A.: Wanting to be paid.
And, with that lame old joke out of the way, let’s look at five more screenwriting habits that really do make our work suck. And, yeppers, we mean “look,” because video rulez the interwebs, yeah?
It’s… going ok?
Resolutions: 2018 Edition