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Yeah I 100% agree with this. It's also incredibly hard to motivate yourself to keep going if you hate everything you've done (or at least, it is for me). So far my delusion is still seen as socially acceptable.

It's interesting. There were certainly things other people didn't do quite right on set, but I kind of take the fall for that for not getting the right people on or not being assertive enough in certain regards. I had to fight for certain a couple of things that you mentioned as positives (e.g...

Hey, thanks Nick! I agree with this - it was a pretty ambitious piece. I agree with pretty much all your feedback, especially re: casting and some of the plot details (some of the others were practical constraints, but both of those things were within my control a lot more, and I made mistakes)...

Thanks Rok :) Cheers Murdock. Interesting feedback re: accent. It's actually the actor's natural accent, believe it or not! He's a New Zealander, but has lived in Samoa and America, so it's a bit of a mess of influences. At the time I felt like it made sense for him to have an awkwardly...

About 2 years ago an IT member, and myself started collaborating. I produced and directed our first short, Unstuck about a year and a half ago. After my distribution/festival plan didn't quite work out, and I ran out of money, I kind of went into a period of post-film depression about the...

Yo, still in guys! I'm pretty busy/life in general is a bit all over the place for me, but I think we owe it to everyone who worked on our projects to finish something. I've sent you a message now, Walter

I'll cut it, but I can't start for a few weeks (moving house today and our Internet won't be connected till March 8). Re Josh - unsure if he'll still be on board, spoke to him recently and he sounds very busy. But it's always worth checking in. I agree that we should just find a way to get...

I'll chuck em on, I've been pretty awol from the internet!

Any updates from Nick and Cracker? I haven't really been active here lately, but it would be good to get something finished for the people who worked on it. I barely recall what needs to be done anymore. I think there was the potential for reshoots in NZ right? If so it'd be good to know...

Any teasers? :)

Yep, the experience/credit would be valuable to me. Though the experience wouldn't really be ADing experience - the job is something more like AD/Producer/Line Producer/Script Supervisor/Everything else he doesn't think he needs. I could afford to do the job, but it would come at a pretty big...

Haven't been around in a while, but I've been offered 1st AD on a feature coming up. However due to scheduling and a few other things happening over the coming months, the payoff is that I'll have to quit my job, move out of my house, not see friends and family over Christmas and new years...

Going to concerts (or other arts, such as theatre or film) can be really great, though. It removes the social dimension to such experiences, and you engage with the performance itself even more. At least that's what I've found.

What's your process when pitching something to a potential collaborator? In the past, I've tended to work with people I tangentially knew, so the process was a bit more colloquial as we had a common point of reference. But for my current project, I'm looking to go a bit wider in attaching the...

The right performer will by far supersede what can be achieved in a studio. They are able to instil this invigorating, indescribable energy in the crowd. They create a rapport with the audience, where the crowd and artist are mutually feeding off and responding to one another. A studio recording...

Yeah fair call. I doubt it'll get major distribution. It's part of an anthology feature (which makes distribution fairly impossible). It'll likely be picked up by the New Zealand International Film Festival (which is exciting, as it'd be the largest audience to have seen my work), but it's hard...

Hey team. I applied for an 'assistant editor' job and got it. However, I've realised the job isn't really what an assistant editor does. They already have a cut film, but due to various circumstances (producers/director want to keep cutting it and the original editor is unavailable, or perhaps...

Agreed with Maz. It's particularly useful to go into those details with actors (though some have a similar approach to Sfoster - that's fine, whatever works for the individual), as it helps create more believable characters, and it also ensures you're on the same page. If you understand your...

Depends what your suggestions are. If you're offering stuff that isn't about acting, you are probably creating a nuisance of yourself. Your job, as an actor, is to help fulfil the vision of the director (and writer, producer ..), not impart your own vision on the project. Some directors...