the amazing alan robert (crawl to me) is doing a new comic and i’m one of the faces of it (alongside Frank Vincent and Marky Ramone).
here is the release on bloody disgusting.
here is an interview with alan on mtv geek news where he talks about why he chose us.
(i think it looks just like me, yeah?)
doing an update on my website as well as starting a facebook page (gasp!).
check back for the cool revamp by modern whole and a fix of some of the bugs (like the ability to post comments more easily)!
in case you haven’t given to our kickstarter campaign yet, i made a list of reasons you might want to think about.
1) not enough movies about potential librarians.
sure, Party Girl was fantastic. and i was reminded by this huffington post article that the Mummy and National Treasure prominently featured librarians. but honestly, how many movies do we have about doctors versus librarians? no more doctors! more librarians!
plus i could kick nick cage’s ass any day.
2) texas in the apocalypse.
i’m a little biased here but texas is awesome. apocalypses are awesome. put the two together and what do you get? pure awesomeness.
3) not enough movies feature inkers.
did i mention that the main character not only wants to be a librarian, but her current job is inking? with the exception of Chasing Amy, i’m not sure any other movie has put inkers front and center.
4) did i mention that sean maher is in our movie playing a scary hick? yep.
no, he doesn’t take his shirt off. but yes, he is smoking. and yes, he is awesome.
5) we’re working our asses off over here!
maybe you missed it. the 30 plus videos we’ve put up, dancing illegally in a library, dressing as ninjas, being in the huffington post (twice!), doing a sign drop on sunset blvd, answering all your questions on reddit… we’re working hard to prove to you that we deserve that $5 you spend on a cup of coffee. or the $25 you’d spend to buy the DVD anyway (that we’ll send to you if you donate that amount!).
so if you have a moment, please help out. if we don’t reach our goal, we get nothing and all this was for nothing.
Every time someone mentions librarians, the librarian scene from the movie Tomcats pops into my head 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWlPkUFJNJ0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
(…a must watch clip if you haven’t seen it)
As a librarian (a male one at that), it’s nice to see that you want more librarians in movies. I totally agree and hope you succeed.
we may just be the luckiest girls in the world.
here is an awesome interview with me in THE NERDIST talking about Best Friends Forever, celebrity comic book writers, apocalypse fatigue, and why i’d go to texas in the case of armageddon.
we were also featured talking about the movie on ZURVIVED.
and of course, this is all to support our kickstarter campaign. please go take a look.
as many of you know, i’m currently editing my first feature.
i learned a lot on set as a person behind and in front of the camera.
i’m learning almost the same amount in the editing room.
so for the actors who read this blog, i thought i’d make a few notes for you to be aware of for your future acting because there was so much i didn’t know before editing someone’s face for 8 hours a day.
1) do the exact same thing.
this is something i learned in the world of television. if you pick up the cup in your right hand on your second line in the wide, do the same in the rest of the takes. every actors knows this can be almost impossible but in the world of indie filmmaking (or more importantly, in the world of not having a script supervisor), it’s essential.
2) don’t do the exact same thing.
i’m not contradicting myself, i swear.
yes, i want you to pick up that cup at the same time but everything else you did, i don’t want to see that again. if i have three takes of you getting sad on the second line in the exact same tone, i may as well have one take. and for a girl who shot her movie on film, i want to make each one count.
with that in mind –
3) quit planning.
i come from the lesly kahn school of thought. be in the moment. have thoughts. i never knew how important it was until i saw people without thoughts and people with them (i am in this movie by the way and all of this applies to my acting as much as anyone else’s).
i know i said to do each take differently, but planning those out doesn’t work. every time, the actors always did the best (including myself) when i said to throw it all away. that last take where it didn’t matter? that’s the one i’m using. because the thoughts were real and organic. or at least they looked like it. you could be thinking about your grocery list (or your next shot in my case) and it doesn’t matter. the audience projects whatever they want on you. you are having their thoughts.
4) don’t stop acting!
so often i use the scene until the very last moment. or i might just use the last moment instead of something else. if cut is called and the camera is still rolling, don’t leave the scene. have your moment. continue. we see it all in the editing room and it’s useful in the very best ways.
in the editing room, we see everything you’re doing. so if there is ever a moment as an actor where you think, “does anyone know i’m doing this awesome nuanced thing?” or “i treated that last take totally differently and the director didn’t say a word,” that’s because the director has 4000 things on his/her mind. but when you get to the editing room, i see it all and i’m so so happy you did that little nuanced thing. i really am.
to learn more about our film go to bestfriendsforeverfilm.com
even better, we’re raising money on kickstarter for our post-production. every little bit counts. support indie filmmaking.
All of these are so spot on. Matching can be so easy to forget when you’re living in a character as a scene unfolds organically from moment to moment. Love the advice about finishing the moment even after cut is called. Not sure if I do this so I’m going to pay more attention to this in my work.
Have to say though, one of my absolute pet peeves is when actors plan. Drives me insane when I have to shoot a scene opposite that mess. Love this post. Great advice for actors at every level!
i’ll be on NCIS: LA tonight.
i’ll be the goth one. you can’t miss me.