20 June 2010

Playlist

Writing a new script. Created a playlist to listen to while I write it.

1. Fugazi - "Cashout"
2. DOOM - "Ballskin"
3. TV on the Radio - "Staring at the Sun"
4. Radiohead - "The National Anthem"
5. Cannibal Ox - "Stress Rap"
6. TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
7. Gnarls Barkley - "Smiley Faces"
8. Fugazi - "Full Disclosure"
9. DOOM - "Batty Boyz"
10. TV on the Radio - "Tonight"
11. P.O.D. - "Without Jah, Nothin'"
12. TV on the Radio - "Mr. Grieves"
13. the pillows - "Crazy Sunshine"
14. Fugazi - "Argument"

This is going to be a weird movie. Too much TVotR?

EDIT: This is a feature length script.

06 June 2010

Bookstores are my third home.

I was finally read some of the book Directing Actors. I need to buy that book. I learned a lot watching directors while working on the 5 or 6 short films last semester. Watching them guide the actors to get a good performance out of them. I learned that result directing isn't very good directing.

Result directing is giving the actor non-specific advice on what to do in their performance. For example, George Lucas only gave one phrase as an adjustment for the actors in the original Star Wars movie, and that was "faster and more intense."

I've learned that this is the worse thing you can do for your actors. So far, all I know is that you give your actors imaginative adjustments, or giving the character an objective or goal to achieve in a certain scene. Apparently, a lot of young directors make the mistake of trying to tell the actors to feel a certain emotion. I can't explain very well why it's bad at the moment, but I just know it's bad.

03 June 2010

If I don't get a job soon....

...I will start to sell plasma, become a sperm donor, and maybe even try becoming a stripper.

Maybe not that last bit. I can't dance very well. I probably wouldn't do very well at pole dancing either.

Play some.

I'll be playing at church this weekend. Haven't done that since April. Listening to Jimi Hendrix to get me thinking to play like me.

I found that I truly shine when I get into my zone and just relax. When I sit in this week, I will relax, and I will be in my zone.

Today's gonna be pretty busy...guh.