The Bitter Script Reader posted some advice about how to survive to move to LA. I tried to comment over there and it won’t let me, but this is what I said. 1) Get settled so that you’re as comfortable as possible — living out of boxes makes everything seem transient. Have roommates or whatever, …
Tag Archive: film school
Dec 06 2009
Hollywood: Not for the weak
I very rarely get into anything particularly personal on this blog. One, because it’s public, and two, because it rarely seems relevant to my career, which is the focus here. But sometimes the personal and the public are a bit intermixed, and that’s what I want to talk about. My health versus my career. I …
Dec 04 2009
InkTip: 3 months in, first Script download
My script has been up on InkTip since the beginning of September. Today, for the first time, it was downloaded. The logline has come up in someone’s search 94 times, 34 of those hits were from LA Feature Film Academy. Today someone at LA Feature Film Academy actually downloaded it. Anyone know anything about them? …
Oct 26 2009
Lost Weekend
I had a weekend that was no good for writing. I’ve set myself a deadline of end of Thanksgiving holiday for a rewrite of Bible Con and a Polished first draft of Dyke for a Day. I had time to work on it this weekend because all of my editing projects are floating in nebulous …
Oct 05 2009
First Act: Complete
First acts are probably the easiest. And I write short anyway. This one clocks in at exactly 22 pages, written in just over a week. 9 days coming out to over 2 pages a day, though that’s certainly not how it was written. 12 last weekend, 10 this weekend. Nothing like my 15 page a …
Sep 29 2009
Jack Finlay: Obituary, note from the Film School, and his sister
From the FSU Mailing list: Am so sorry to have to share with you news about the death of Jack Finlay, who has acted in many, many student films, always ready to help out as an extra or in a major role. His contributions to our films and his happy smile will be missed. Following …
Sep 21 2009
RIP Jack Finlay; I am a horrible person
Jack Finlay, a talented actor local to Tallahassee and a big supporter of the FSU Film School passed away yesterday. More specifically, he collapsed during the Film School’s auditions and was pronounced DOA when he got to the hospital. That’s all the information I can find. My first thought was oh God how horrible. I …
Sep 20 2009
Advice: How not to Audition; 18 things Actors shouldn’t do
I acted as Casting Director for the Thesis Films my last year of grad school and experienced the scariest audition ever. I would like to share the story, as a warning to other actors. Do not behave like this. Ever. We called this actress, MKS, like 2 weeks before we landed in LA. She’d sent …
Sep 09 2009
Sick, Job Worries
Ugh. I partially hope it’s swine flu. But not really. I’m just woozy, it’s my main symptom. There are some cool things in the works career wise, including a web series that I may be able to edit/color correct the entire series and be paid. I might even get to DP, which would be exciting, …
Sep 05 2009
The Bio
I’m not really sure how people make a blog a destination site. I guess it’s got to be insightful about the process or something. Like, writing about work. I guess I’ll just go for the light introduction. I got an MFA from FSU in Film Production in 2008. Before that, I started working on films …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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