The Anonymous Production Assistant

How John Quinn Edits Horror Movies and The Chosen

A career in Hollywood is always strange. You work on so many different kinds of films and TV shows, because a job’s a job, and you never know when the next one is going to come along. But our next guest on The Call Sheet? He’s got range. He edited Tales from the Hood 2 […]

Editor Scott Powell

_    Our guest today is an Emmy-nominated editor: Scott Powell. Scott has cut such shows as 24, Person of Interest, and Hawaii Five-0 (the new one; he’s not that old). There’s still time to enter the CAPS Payroll contest! They’re giving away two pairs of tickets to Crew Call listeners for their VIP suite at […]

Job Offer I Don’t Want

A Canadian reader wrote in– I recently moved to a big city in Canada to work in the film/tv industry. I graduated from uni last year and I thought I wanted to do editing. Then I did editing at a small company in my hometown and realized that it was not what I dreamed it […]

Movie Magic

I directed a short film earlier this year that prominently featured a pregnant woman.  In a burst of verisimilitude, we actually got a real pregnant woman to play the part.  She provided her own costume and baby bump and everything. Here’s the thing about maternity clothes, though– they’re designed to conceal, or at least de-emphasize, […]

My New Favorite Blog

I tend to find film criticism either insufferably pedantic, ill informed, or both. I prefer to take my criticism with wit and irony. And possibly pedophilia jokes. I recently found David Bordwell’s blog. His name sounded familiar, and after a bit of googling, I realized I’d read his book Film Art Introduction in film school. […]

Why Would Anyone Want To Be A PA?

The hours are lousy, the pay is worse. No one respects you. If anything goes wrong, it’s always your fault. And everyone tells you you’re lucky just to be here. There is one advantage– free time. We’re often busy, it’s true, but a lot of a PA’s job is simply to be ready. While we […]