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Don't use real lipstick. Use a washable paint, like the type young children use for finger-painting.

I can just tell you about my own experience. I had a lot of those same social fears when I got talked into directing last year. Prior to this, I worked mainly as a horror F/X artist, so I would be holed up in my studio most of the time and then just come out on set for a few days when needed...

Making prosthetics is a long process and does take some practice while getting used to the materials. For human-like looks, a perfect-fitting prosthetic requires starting with a face cast of each actor and sculpting similar "alien" characteristics onto each one while making them unique to the...

These are just situations that I run into a lot as an F/X artist, particularly when working with people who are relatively new to film-making (or at least new to working with practical F/X), and thought I'd jot down some thoughts here based on my own experience. First of all, I've found that a...

I agree with this statement completely. In my film, there is both male and female full-frontal nudity, but not one naked person appears without a legitimate reason for being unclothed. Asides from the fact that I'm working on a werewolf film and the lycanthropes don't hide extra clothes all...

Predatory Moon's Second Indiegogo campaign Earlier I reported on the seemingly disastrous attempt at crowd-funding that my film Predatory Moon experienced while looking for raising a production budget. We finished with only 20% of our $7476.00 goal and the only thing that saved our skin was...

We don't start principle on Predatory Moon until late April, but we have started filming B-unit scenes. (Figured it's a good way for the crew to get used to working together before beginning the very brutal production schedule next month.) Taken during one of my all-night sessions working on...

Working on low-budget indies in Florida, I can generally spot a Full Sail graduate at thirty paces. They are the ones with the confused expressions on their faces. From what I understand, the school prepares its students to walk on to a Hollywood set, but does little (if anything) to prepare...

Thank you! Strangely enough, the ones who expressed being surprised about that were all men. I'm used to being in this very weird position as a woman... I'm female, but I generally work in F/X (that is very male-dominated) and seem to be viewed as being "one of the guys" on a set. I don't...

Budget under $10,000 with 32 shooting days and two primary locations that are about 200 miles apart. Huge chunk of the budget going toward the care and feeding of a large cast and crew. Because our main location is only available to us for a month, we can't do this as a "weekend warrior"...

I don't think I'm making them jump through hoops if I'm holding auditions right down the road from where we will be filming. It is right off an exit on a major highway as well, I'm not sending folks out into the middle of the Everglades or anything like that. I haven't been hearing about...

I'd like to share my thoughts on this and get some opinions from those who have far more experience than I do! This is my first time directing, although I've acted as my husband's "right hand" on several of his projects and have also helped him in casting. He always holds live auditions, so...

I believe that the team behind that spent about three weeks on the internet looking through genre-related blogs and websites for contact information. I had a mailing list of about 70 "fans" from a long-running pet project of mine that I threw into the contact list too. (That took years to...

That was Plan B, until some outside supporters rescued us. The first feature that my tiny company did was pretty much financed out-of-pocket. I raised my share by taking a work-at-home job as an advice line operator so I could take calls while I working on the F/X gags for the film. That was...

Wanted $7,476.00 Got $1,510.00 - Overall expectations going into the "Yes/Pursue" decision The folks on the decision committee had pretty high expectations about this, if anything because I'm a female F/X artist (rare creature) raising funds for my directorial debut with a horror movie...

I almost always find myself rooting for the villains in my favorite movies. In my opinion they tend to be far more interesting than the other characters. Some examples: Jigsaw / John Kramer from the Saw films. ( I'd actually love to see this character in a chess match with one of my other...

I've got about a week left on my indiegogo for Predatory Moon, and hoping that there is truth to the whole "it all boils down to the last week" theory because my team has completely run out of ideas on how to further promote it. http://www.indiegogo.com/predatorymoon?c=home A couple years ago...

Using a couple thin, clear fishing lines secured to the shoes of the hanging victim and held taunt by PAs will stop any spinning. I've had PAs tug on lines to get the "swaying in the breeze" action going too.

Thank you all for the advice! This is my first time directing, so I'm probably a little paranoid over every little thing. A month ago (before I was even thinking about auditions) I had a bloke contact me to try to push his little daughter on me. Very insistant that my film would be an instant...