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Re: crash and burn

krisnicolau — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:53:26 -0000

budding films makers are entering these things all the time - this is butterfingers idea of the winning
commercials made by ....various others

http://protectyourbutterfin...

Re: digging myself a deep hole

krisnicolau — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:56:51 -0000

mmm....i always have thought of innovation and creativity as being constant no matter
what the business is doing

so no matter what the monetary gain a good idea /a good story/ a good invention survives
plse click on link to view innovations during the great depression

http://images.businessweek....

our bottom line will have to change to make room for all the new innovations

perhaps we will outsource some production services away from major cities like la /ny and london

new technology brings isolation e.g. people can sit in their bedrooms and make a movie

castings happen from an actors bedroom and the actor emails their auditions to the casting directors
who from their bedrooms edit the best and forward them to the directors et al and so it goes, each service does their job from their bedrooms and communicate thru ichat and skype sharing files and each
layering their service onto the brand .....everything cgid down in nz at weta films

welcome to the reality of max headroom

Re: consensus sells

krisnicolau — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:15:50 -0000

when directors are unable to get the talent they want because they give casting directors no time to prep the jobs, will things change?

maybe this is not the arena but it is the only arena to reach out to the production community at large so here goes....

a viral is given to us (translation THIS IS A MOVIE for the net) for a movie director to direct and they give the casting directors one day to prep it (there is no script just a treatment from the agency and director)the actor ( and the casting director) has to come up with his/her own script for the audition - it is improv all the way - 7 or so episodes.

what planet are u all on that you think one day prep is doable to bring on 3 days of casting that will not waste everyones time?

first of all it completely negates any "think" time for the job because you basically turn around
and have to find 150 people in ten hours.....

you then all expect that every actor is dying to
a. come up with a character
b. write the script for you
c. have fabulous improvisation
d. or want to do the gig for as little as you can get away with

does anyone in the production community actually know how casting works?
or does everyone still think it a woman's hobby ?

it is incredibly frustrating to work in isolation in this community .....

this is how casting works today

we get all the information (means the product/where its running/how its running/conflict/
character description/script, if you're lucky, etc. etc.

we then transfer it to a breakdown
we get on average around 10,000 submissions (most of them bad)
we make choices from the submissions
we try to talk to agents about every part - going outside the box
we then choose our first 100
we schedule and put out the calls
we then hear about the cancellations and replace
this process takes ten hours if you do it right maybe longer

this is our one day prep - imagine when we have one day prep and
3 days casting

so next time you think about that horrible casting you had, blame yourselves for not having the foresight
to prepare correctly for the needs of the job.

Re: laws of gravity, part 2

krisnicolau — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:00:17 -0000

yep this is the free market now
this is our global economy at work

Re: lead, follow, or get out of the way

krisnicolau — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:03:22 -0000

basically jerry noone cares about aicp
since the bidding sheet they have been largely ineffectual
i mean if a casting director gets their "looser ability "
what is the rest of the community thinking ??????

that they can do better for themselves .....
sorry
kris

Re: lead, follow, or get out of the way

krisnicolau — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:39:21 -0000

excellent article
not only do you lay it out for us
you give the solution to the problem
amazing - thank you

Re: am i the only one who likes to shoot in the united states?

krisnicolau — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:50:12 -0000

I guess all you producers and production companies are not aware but the membership of SAG which is the actors, voted to keep the pay scale as it was......it wasnt a bunch of wierdos we dont know - it was the membership which are the actors.

STOP BLAMING SAG .....and ultimately the actors....the reason the residual payment still exists is that
the AAAA (the ad agency negotiating team) will not give the actor a decent fee for the job....

e.g. say comedy type guy - carrys the spot - runs in north america all over and the net ....a decent
payment for this kind of actor would be $20,000 upfront (forget the residuals) but the ad agencies dont
want to pay that upfront money (well they do as long as it is not over 5 grand) - if truth be told residuals exist because it is convenient for the ad agency.

its always gonna be something - how about ad agency personnel staying at the holiday inn instead of say shutters on the beach - or even how about ad agency give the production company time to do the spot right or what about the millions of dollars they waste - sometimes making a commercial that never gets aired....

i mean lets seriously look at the wastage caused elsewhere in our businesss because it is not the actors.
its just that ad agencies do a real good job of blaming actors resids when we all know their clients or head honchos want a trip away.....the ad agency junket is still alive and well in the recession - like they are still getting their bonuses just like the bankers.....

Re: health care and prod contracts

krisnicolau — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:08:25 -0000

exactly

Re: a call for protest from an unlikely source

krisnicolau — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:38:23 -0000

I have struggled not to comment on this one but your senior business managers
comment made me so angry that what i am about to say will probably ruin my business till end of time
but it must be said.

what a despicable person "hoping we will all turn it down" how about this - how about she takes her gutless
self and remind her clients of how freeking unfair they are to the general population within this industry....

Re: crazy rabbit, twitters not for kids

krisnicolau — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:38:39 -0000

read chris anderson's now book "free"
insightful .......