Thursday, October 29, 2009
CNN.com interview tomorrow!
Terisa Greenan will be interviewed on CNN.com Friday, Oct 30 at 9am PST.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Season 1 Finale in editing now!
Well, we had a great shoot for episode #21 of "Family" the web series last sunday. Well, in truth we shot only half the episode, and we actually postponed half until next Tuesday. The Sunday shoot was
way overscheduled (my bad!) and with a live chat and a screening that night too, there was no way
we were getting it all in.
We had a gorgoeus downtown office location to shoot in, thanks to Allena Gabosch and Chandra Imel. It all went smoothly, if a little behind schedule, but then when we went to shoot the exteriors at the same office building, we got barely into it before
the property manager came and told us that just because we had permission
from a tenant to shoot in one of their offices, didn’t mean we had
permission to shoot on the front steps of the building. Grrrr!
With some secretive pressing of the record button while we were all standing
around pretending we weren’t shooting, we managed to get all we needed and
then moved to the city sidewalk to shoot the rest. THEN, the management
came back and told us we could be on the sidewalk but that we couldn’t have
their building visible in the background of our shots. GGGRRRRRRRR!
Anyway, we did finish all the office location scenes, Amber Eric & Ernie will
come back to do the house scenes, and then it really WILL be over.
I am terribly ambivalent about it, now that it is finally here.
There are still things in the works for possibly letting us continue the web series, and for possibly getting it on a cable station, but it's all very early stages of negotiation right now. I will keep you all informed if and when something really exciting happens!
THanks, as always, for your amazing support! T shirts and DVDs are available at www.3dogpictures.com
:)
way overscheduled (my bad!) and with a live chat and a screening that night too, there was no way
we were getting it all in.
We had a gorgoeus downtown office location to shoot in, thanks to Allena Gabosch and Chandra Imel. It all went smoothly, if a little behind schedule, but then when we went to shoot the exteriors at the same office building, we got barely into it before
the property manager came and told us that just because we had permission
from a tenant to shoot in one of their offices, didn’t mean we had
permission to shoot on the front steps of the building. Grrrr!
With some secretive pressing of the record button while we were all standing
around pretending we weren’t shooting, we managed to get all we needed and
then moved to the city sidewalk to shoot the rest. THEN, the management
came back and told us we could be on the sidewalk but that we couldn’t have
their building visible in the background of our shots. GGGRRRRRRRR!
Anyway, we did finish all the office location scenes, Amber Eric & Ernie will
come back to do the house scenes, and then it really WILL be over.
I am terribly ambivalent about it, now that it is finally here.
There are still things in the works for possibly letting us continue the web series, and for possibly getting it on a cable station, but it's all very early stages of negotiation right now. I will keep you all informed if and when something really exciting happens!
THanks, as always, for your amazing support! T shirts and DVDs are available at www.3dogpictures.com
:)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Publicity gets in the way of art
WEll, we are skipping a cycle. The next episode was supposed to go up on Aug 9 but it will go up Aug 23 instead. Party because of cast & crew conflicts with the shoot dates and largely because all this crazy publicity is taking up all my time. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it does take time to deal with. Lots of opportunities and lots of decisions to make! Thanks for understanding and I hope you like Ep #17 on Aug 23rd!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
ep #16 blog
This was a strange one. Matt (my co-writer) and I always knew that we wanted to revisit the Eliza character and have her show her finished documentary to the triad, and we knew that it would be shown to be a horribly distorted view of their lives. But then we came to this shooting week and basically none of our actors were available. So we thought, well let's do the one where she shows her doc, but instead of scripting something totally new, let's use footage we already have and look back at times when Eliza was supposedly filming them, but we can see the scenes from different angles, etc, and then put in some really disingenuous commentary. Well, that is how the idea started anyway - as is so often the case, taking a constraint (lack of actors) and turning it into a way to be creative. We ended up using the past footage instead for flashbacks, and adding in "what happened next" footage with Eliza & Mark. Since Eliza & Mark are played by me and Matt, we could shoot those anytime. Anyway, we came up with some really good plot twists to reveal and I wasn't sure until I sat down to edit, how I was going to put it all together. We managed to get Amber Rack (Gemma) for 2 hours one sunday so we scripted a bit where she sees the horrible documentary. And there it is. So often, when I feel like I've done something with no resources whatsoever, the audience comes back and says it's one of their favorite episodes. And I think this is one of those.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
National Press!
National site ABCnews.com picked up our story from local affiliate KOMO. Pretty cool.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
GAH! Continual audio troubles!
Well, episode #15 is exporting now and will be up on youtube in about an hour. One day late - our first time. :(
We have had to do major re-recording of audio for the last 2 episodes and it's starting to piss me off, frankly. I don't know if the mic is faulty or what. And the headphone jack to the camera IS faulty so we can't even usually monitor sound. So we don't find out that the audio is messed up until after the shoot is over and the actors have gone home. Another thing that doesn't help, is LACK of CREW. If we had someone who could monitor sound and do nothing else, that would help. But as it is, the amazing VINCENT FERRIS operates the boom mic, moves lights, fetches missing props, gives the actors their marks, and does everything else we need, as he is frequently the only help we have. THANK YOU VINCENT. We have had other PAs on the set, even had a script supervisor for a couple of shoots, but, let's face it, attrition is very high in volunteer work. It's been 15 episodes now and 7 months, and people are drifting away. Luckily, the actors are still engaged. Although I worry about Amber. She was sick again this last shoot. I told her today to take it easy. I think she spreads herself rather thin with so many projects. But we are SO LUCKY to have her. :)
Anyway, today I rushed around town to get re-recording from Amber and Winston, who weren't available yesterday, so that is why we are posting a day late for the first time in 7 months. But the end product is good. Moving, funny, yep - it's got it all. I'm really proud of the script. I think the story is coming along nicely.
Don't ask about #16. YIKES!
We have had to do major re-recording of audio for the last 2 episodes and it's starting to piss me off, frankly. I don't know if the mic is faulty or what. And the headphone jack to the camera IS faulty so we can't even usually monitor sound. So we don't find out that the audio is messed up until after the shoot is over and the actors have gone home. Another thing that doesn't help, is LACK of CREW. If we had someone who could monitor sound and do nothing else, that would help. But as it is, the amazing VINCENT FERRIS operates the boom mic, moves lights, fetches missing props, gives the actors their marks, and does everything else we need, as he is frequently the only help we have. THANK YOU VINCENT. We have had other PAs on the set, even had a script supervisor for a couple of shoots, but, let's face it, attrition is very high in volunteer work. It's been 15 episodes now and 7 months, and people are drifting away. Luckily, the actors are still engaged. Although I worry about Amber. She was sick again this last shoot. I told her today to take it easy. I think she spreads herself rather thin with so many projects. But we are SO LUCKY to have her. :)
Anyway, today I rushed around town to get re-recording from Amber and Winston, who weren't available yesterday, so that is why we are posting a day late for the first time in 7 months. But the end product is good. Moving, funny, yep - it's got it all. I'm really proud of the script. I think the story is coming along nicely.
Don't ask about #16. YIKES!
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