Series: Shooting “Airport Security” « — Struts and Frets: Kris Joseph

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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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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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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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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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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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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Bit by bit: cutting it together

May 14, 2010
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

I was under the erroneous impression that the bulk of our work on the Airport Security video was done when we finished shooting.  Anyone who’s done any significant video editing is laughing at what I just wrote. In theory, shooting digital makes things easier.  The data goes on to a hard drive; there’s no film [...]

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