The S Blog: Stuart, Steve, and Seth
Slow-to-almost-no progress this week, as our director of photographer, Stuart Jaymes, has developed pneumonia. We did film one brief scene for a montage, as that had required us (well, Maria) to notify and arrange permission for us to film a Taekwondo class. But for that scene, our sound guy, Bil Chute (who’s also a director of photography) took over. All our other scenes (and it was going to be a busy weekend) were postponed. That gave me some time to finish writing the new opening for my new novel, which had tentatively been functioning under the acronym of TFSoLY. As I wrote the novel, I thought that acronym (which I…
Making a Family
Only one day of filming this weekend, as I was at the Words in Winter Writers Festival in Daylesford on Sunday conducting a workshop on character. On Saturday, we filmed a number of the scenes between the two central characters, Vic (Cam Faull) and Maria (Maria Tevelis). I’ll start with Maria, who’s also a producer on Little Diva Rising, and a lot of the driving force behind the production. When Tony asked me to write him a feature screenplay some years ago, he asked me to write parts for actor-friends. This is who Tony is – he is always looking out for and trying to help others. It didn’t make…