The Anonymous Production Assistant

Bleg (Again)

In the past week, 29 of you clicked the link to my friend’s movie on OpenFilm.com.  That’s right, I’m counting. I get 700 readers a day.  Less than 5% of you voted! That’s not enough!  The top vote-getter is well into the hundreds.  And it’s a terrible movie. (I assume.) I know we can do better […]

Conference Call

A friend of mine is working in post on a sequel to a big budget movie that you’ve heard of and probably didn’t enjoy very much.  The director has that kind of psuedo-fame that comes from being a jerk.  I try my best not to judge such people until I’ve worked with them myself, but […]

I Have a Better Idea!

Désirée (síc) commented on Friday’s post: I wonder, do not these pro copy guys some form of woe of silence? Or couldn’t you just have stood by him while he did the job, making sure he didn’t read or made 119 copies? It feels like it must have been much easier for you to miss […]

Where’s Johannes Gutenberg When You Need Him?

“Everything is amazing and nobody is happy” by Meowbay I realize that most of my day is spent using machines that were science fiction not long ago.  I work in a medium that didn’t exist 75 years ago.  I move at 85 miles per hour regularly, and I call people all over the world while […]

Get It Made

As I’ve said in the past, I like to help out on my friend’s short films. Some of them don’t work out so well, but some of them are great.  On the latter side is a short my buddy Curt produced, Asleep with the Angels. They entered it in Open Film’s Get It Made contest. […]