New Member from The Bluegrass State

Hey guys and gals!

My name is Sara, I'm a Kentuckian, and I'm really just getting started with filmmaking. I come from the stage; I've been acting and writing since childhood, and directed a couple of things in that capacity. I also acted in a short that was screened in a WV film festival. Not my finest work, but I've had the film bug like crazy since high school.

Mostly, I enjoyed elaborate humor and visual gags, as evidenced by what I turned in when asked to film a commercial for highschool; it was a ridiculous infomercial that was less about any product, and more about the incredibly romantic relationship between the host and a My Size Barbie. Again, not my finest work. :lol:

I am working in a sketch comedy group with some friends and we're planning on starting some shooting of our veritable potpourri of goofiness once it can stop snowing for five seconds and be safe for everyone to drive. Our group consists of two electronic media students (an editor and a camera operator), two stand-up comics, a writer/actor, and a tech guy. All of us have at least a decade of acting experience as well, so we'll manage; none of us are Daniel Day-Lewis (who is?) but we get by.

Aside from that, with a couple of the guys, I'm working on some more ambitious projects, one of which is a short on revision #2, and being edited as we budget and scout locations. It's quite simple, location-wise, and just has a couple of characters. We're trying to figure out a way to shoot it with no budget, but it keeps creeping up into the $500 range. Unfortunately, there's really no way to make it coherent and under 10 minutes; it's rocking a solid 10-13 as it stands, and that is omitting anything extraneous. Nor is there a way (that I'm a fan of) which would flesh it out into a feature...and I'm not ready for a feature yet; God no! It scares me.

My film heroes of late are Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, Brian De Palma, Guillermo del Toro, and Ingmar Bergman.

Anyway, yeah.

TL;DR: My name is Sara, I'm from Kentucky, and I'm a noob; nice to meetcha!
 
Why, hello thar!
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Sounds like some fun projects!

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Hey Sara! :welcome:

Since it sounds like all of your crew come from theater backgrounds, I'll just go ahead and say it now -- smaller. Make it smaller, you're playing to a camera not the back of the house. ;)
 
Thank you, guys! It will definitely be fun, but I'm looking for some learning experience to crash over my head or something; is that how it happens, haha!

And yeah, theatre backgrounds are very different from film. Were I filming a soap opera, it could possibly get picked up. Not likely, but I have a bunch of handsome stage actors wiling to work for free before a camera, and I have playwriting experience, and tons of experience with melodrama; could work.

As an aside, I do have a guilty pleasure for General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, but don't want to actually do soaps, lol
 
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