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A few of my favorite things

The Teen Movie Project is coming along. I spent the better part of this three-day weekend in front of my laptop with headphones on, editing 19 hours of footage into something resembling a movie. Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, David sat in front of his laptop, headphones on, recording the “Elizabeth’s Flowers” [...]

Cutting and Pasting

As of Wednesday, the still-untitled Teen Movie Project is officially in post-production. So far, the “editing” process has largely involved sorting hours of video into folders and cringing at my inability to look comfortable on camera. Fortunately, I’m playing a teenage girl, so that should work out fine. In other news, Star Wars Uncut has [...]

I made this!

I work in theater, right? Not film? Just checking; I think someone must have forgotten to tell my day planner. Exhibit A: The Entourage Video At my work, there’s a little-known program called Entourage that I happen to administer. Being the marketing department and all, we decided to raise its profile with a little informative [...]

And in our spare time…

Yesterday, we filmed all the band practice scenes in Jonathan’s garage. Went pretty well. Highlights included Zachary’s pizza (thanks, David!), the grossest spider of all time, a never-ending song about butts, and an impromptu Squeezit commercial starring Benjamin and Simon. Which Jonathan made into an actual commercial: I have no idea what how this film [...]

Filming, Week One

I still can’t believe this is really happening. Only twelve and a half years behind schedule, we started filming the still-untitled teen movie on Saturday. It was a big 12-hour day, which included such highlights as being pushed into an unheated pool, turning a bakery into a teen dance club, and trying to say the [...]

Why I have no life anymore

I don’t think I had any idea how much work it takes to make a movie. I mean, yes, obviously it’s a lot of work. But it just grows exponentially! Insane. Anyway, since tomorrow is officially the end of pre-production–yes, that means production starts on Saturday!–I thought I’d show you the insanity that is my [...]