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IndieGoGo: An indie Canadian theatre company experience

January 1, 2011

I have been asked by a couple of people to write a post about our recent experience using IndieGoGo as a fundraising platform for The Turn of the Screw. While most of my comments are generic, I am focusing on our experience as a Canadian theatre company because IndieGoGo’s reliance on US funds adds a [...]

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Another area where theatre schools fail us

November 25, 2010

I have a dream: that every repertory, conservatory, or otherwise performance-based theatre training program give complete control of at least one of their productions to the students. All such actor training programs have a healthy focus on performance. Some even require students to learn tech skills. And while I admit that I’m pretty ignorant of [...]

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Turn of the Screw: Some words from our director

October 13, 2010

This is the first of what we hope will be a series of short videos for The Turn of the Screw where the involved artists talk about the production: And, hey: if you think this is a cool idea and you can’t attend OR are wanting to know how you can help us with the [...]

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Shooting lessons

May 9, 2010

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

I’m coming back to this series of posts after a bit of an absence, and I apologize… but I do want to finish them up, as a resource for other people who are trying to do what we did with the Airport Security webisodes. This is information for video-making noobs, because we were/are noobs ourselves. [...]

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Storyboarding the video

February 9, 2010

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

I’ve been on film sets many, many times over the years. I also watch a lot of DVD commentary. So I know a lot about filmmaking. That’s what I kept telling myself. On one end of the spectrum, you have the Robert Rodriguez “10 Minute Film School”, where everyone is a filmmaker because they say [...]

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The casting crunch

February 8, 2010

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

Since we managed to work out a deal with ACTRA to be able to use union talent for our video shoot, we were faced with a bit of a time crunch for casting Airport Security. By “crunch” I mean that we were less than 48 hours from calling “action” on our first camera shot. So [...]

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What box does this go in? (Part Two)

February 7, 2010

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

With less than a week before we wanted to start shooting scenes from Airport Security on HD video, we still had not received word from the local ACTRA office on what options, if any, we might be able to use in order to allow union members to participate at our level of budget. And while [...]

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What box does this go in? (Part One)

February 6, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

One of the most significant and complicated hurdles we had to jump to make our video for Airport Security is related to the unions and associations that govern actor participation in theatre and film/TV work. As I have said before, we are living in a world where the realms of film, media, and live performance [...]

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Oh, shoot.

February 6, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

Are you tired of watching theatre audiences grow old and wither? Are you worried at the non-theatre-going kids of today will become the non-theatre-going adults of tomorrow? Well, you’re not alone! So what are you gonna do about it? The folks at Gruppo Rubato — those folks include me — had an idea for audience [...]

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Location, location, location

December 20, 2008

Alvina Ruprecht, CBC’s increasingly irregular “Ottawa Morning” theatre critic, did a review yesterday of “Kings of the Kilburn High Road.” Her review was great and should help the production, but I’m driven to comment because of a statement she made on-air once her critique was finished. Near the end of the review, she commented on [...]

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