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I was actually crying when I finished the script, so that was my first reaction but that was just, I read the whole book in one sitting. I one go, I just didn’t move for two hours. I read the whole thing page to page. And just loved it, I was kind of like wow, where did this come from? And I called my agent and said how much I loved it, and then I went back to Brown (University) and ended up speaking to a bunch of my friends and mentioned the name of the script that I read, and it turned out that three or four of my friends were actually huge fans of the book, and they started talking to me about it. Turns out that you know this book has this amazing following and, yeah, it was great” “There’s no way that you can read the book having been through, ya know, any kind of high school experience or, ya know. Not even high school experience but just have been through being a teenager and not being able to relate to one of the experiences of the characters. Its just so…it just covers so much…its so real, and so true. And I didn’t need to go to an American high school, or go to prom or have any of those kinds of experiences in order to relate to Same, or Charlie, or Brad, or any of the characters’’ “When I came onto the movie, I was very anxious about ya know trying to figure out how to create these kinds of friendships that they’ve had for such a long time, and I was really worried about it all. It was, ya know, I did all this prep work, and Steven (the director) was like you don’t even have to worry about that. You’re all going to be best friends. And I was like really? And he was like yeah, you’re all going to be best friends, you’re going to have the summer of your life. And I was like okay? And it turned out to totally completely true. I’ve met probably some of my best t friends, you know friends for life honestly through this movie” “Charlie is a…is a kid whose been through a pretty rough time, and he is the sweetest, , most sensitive soul you will ever meet. At the time we meet him at the beginning of the movie his best friend Michael has just died, and he’s in a really scarred anxious place. he’s like just, ya know, he’s just coming to a new high school. he’s meeting new people, he’s dealing with his loos, he’s dealing with his awkwardness. Then Sam I think even more than Patrick in the beginning, really sees that. And sees that, and she decides with Patrick how to take him under their wing, and ya know take care of him and you know shepherd him through high school essentially, which can be ya know an intimidating place. We kind of…yeah we make it all okay.” “Watching Logan (Lerman) be Charlie is just devastating. Ezra and I have watched him a bunch of times and just looked…he’s so…he’s so innately understands Charlie’s awkwardness and kind of his innocence And Logan has that, its interesting. Logan is incredibly smart and you know very professional, very hardworking. But then there’s also this side of Logan that’s incredible just like sweet and very…he just thinks the best of people all the time, and that’s Charlie. He also has that kind of like honestly, that purity.’’ “Patrick is the most charismatic person you’ll ever meet and that’s really who Ezra (Miller) is in real life. You know he’s this incredibly witty outcast basically at school, who is SO over high school, who hates it. he’s very unconventional, he goes against the grain… and he’s Sam’s best friend.” “All of the characters have some sort of serious story lines and dealing with some serious, difficult stuff. But its also very funny, its always just opposed with something very humorous and funny. And that’s when I think things are the saddest and the funniest. When you have that contrast” “its been absolutely amazing to have the man who contextualized it, who dreamed up my character, who dreamed up the whole world to be directing it, as well as writing it. Who has already released the book. Its such a pure line of connection. He has such vision.”

Emma Watson commenting on her experiences working on set for Perks of Being a Wallflower

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja7zh_wBtwM

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“ so lets talk a little bit about the production process, in terms of time you are doing a post-apocalyptic opera but on a relatively small budget for a feature film, how do you deal with that? How do you compress that time so you’re not going widely over budget?” “by working for free generally, no I’m kidding. Ill tell you by working with people who thought this was the best thing they’ve ever done, and they are willing to donate their time and work for relatively low money or in some cases no money. For the creators like I we are just loving every minute and its gratifying that it became a huge family of people. I mentioned we have Paul Sorvino also in the cast, and he told me that this is the best movies worked on in 25 years and its been the greatest experience. I’m like was Goodfellas out like 18 years ago? And he goes yeah. But just to give you an idea, people are really willing to donate their time and their energy and their creativity into doing something that was something considerably better than something I envisioned "

Darren Smith, Writer of Repo the Genetic Opera

I hope that Darren Smith has helped you find new ways to bypass the struggle of having a small budget for a big idea. Don't let your smaller budget stop you from creating large scale films involving new worldbuilding.

Always support small budget films like Repo the Genetic Opera by visiting local indie cinemas in your area

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbUJX8GPnfE (full interview)

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Little Shop of Horror Puppeteers

Keeping up with this week’s theme of independent musicals (see the podcast about Rent) we are looking into Little Shop of Horrors and tips on coordinating larger size puppets in case your next film will be working with puppets

1. Speeding is everything

The film was shot in slow-motion, 12 frames per second rather than the usual 24 frames per second and then speeded up in post production . Make sure you have an actor who has the skills like Rick Moranis who was lip singing very slowly to match the speed that the crew who was puppeteering the full size Audrey 2

2. Have a crew large enough

It took upwards to 60 men and women to make Audrey 2 to come alive when it was its full size in the climax of the film. As the plant gets larger throughout the movie more hands are needed to move each individual root, leaf, and flower. Also the puppet builders made 6 animatronic flytraps ranging from 4 inches to 12 feet in size.

3. Experience is a must

Working a puppet for film may sound easy enough but don't be fooled. it takes experience to be able to properly coordinate the movements with sound, especially when your puppet is singing. Brian Henson who is the son of the famous Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets, Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth) was the main puppeteer for Audrey 2 during the “Feed Me” song in the film

Don't feed the plants!

Check out our partnered podcast

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Don't forget to support your local Indie cinemas to see all the work put into not only puppeteering but ever aspect of creating films like this cult classic.

Sources: Hoffman, B., 2019. How The 'Little Shop Of Horrors' Puppeteers Bring Audrey II To Life. [online] Nypost.com. Available at: <https://nypost.com/2019/10/15/how-little-shop-of-horrors-puppeteers-bring-audrey-ii-to-life/> [Accessed 7 October 2020].

MANCINI, M., 2015. 11 Bloodthirsty Facts About <Em>Little Shop Of Horrors</Em>. [online] Mentalfloss.com. Available at: <https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68624/11-bloodthirsty-facts-about-little-shop-horrors> [Accessed 7 October 2020].

Muppet Wiki. 2020. Little Shop Of Horrors. [online] Available at: <https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors> [Accessed 7 October 2020].

#behind the scenes #indiefilms #musical #little shop of horrors

Visit the real towns, piazzas and gorgeous countryside of Call Me By Your Name in Lombardy, Northern Italy.

Locations where “Call Me By Your Name” was filmed

For more details from our last post check out this link!

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Locations where “Call Me By Your Name” was filmed

Here is the list of all the beautiful spots throughout Northern Italy where some of the most iconic scenes from Call Me By Your Name were filmed. Use this as inspiration for where you wish to film your next movie at! its a nice mix of pure nature as well as some more well know memorials and statues.

1. Cascate Del Serio 24020 Valbondione BG, Italy

(source :https://www.tripadvisor.it/ShowUserReviews-g187830-d7116573-r291648890-Le_Cascate_Del_Serio-Bergamo_Province_of_Bergamo_Lombardy.html)

2. Piazza Padre Reginaldo Giuliani 24129 Bergamo BG, Italy

(source:https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187830-d8125606-i276772053-Tempietto_di_Santa_Croce-Bergamo_Province_of_Bergamo_Lombardy.html )

3. WWI War Memorial, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III

(source:https://somewhereinnorthernitaly.com/2018/06/01/pandino-the-confession-at-the-piave-memoriale/)

4. Laghetto dei Riflessi 26010 Ricengo, Province of Cremona, Italy

(source:https://ebike.bikesquare.eu/ita/cremona/laghetto-dei-riflessi)

5. Prizzighettone Railway Station 26026 Pizzighettone Province of Cremona, Italy

(source:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pizzighettone_train_station)

6. Cascina San Giorgio 26834 Corte Palasio, Province of Lodi, Italy

(source:https://www.gites.fr/gites_cascina-sagiorgio_valenza_h1479651_en.htm)

. Piazza XXV Aprile Milano MI, Italy

(source:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piazza_XXV_Aprile_-_panoramio.jpg)

8. Bar Belveder, Piazza Gambazzocchi 7 26010 Moscazzano CR, Italy

(source: potern.com/en/spot/movie/call-me-by-your-name/104291/the-village-of-moscazzano-in-lombardy-italy-where-the-project-takes-place-call-me-by-your-name)

Dont forget to like, also commit which is your favorite spot to film at?

Keep Supporting your independent films by checking out the local indie cinemas in your city :)

Sources: The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations. 2020. Filming Locations For Call Me By Your Name (2017), In Italy.. [online] Available at: <https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/c/Call-Me-By-Your-Name.php> [Accessed 1 October 2020].

#call me by your name #behind the scenes #indiefilms #timothée chalamet

The Big Sick (2017)

(Spoiler alert!)

We all love the Indie film The Big Sick. It’s a beautifully written story about a rising stand up comedian name Kumail who falls in love with a girl name Emily. However, Emily suddenly gets very sick and forced to be put into a medically induced coma. Meanwhile Kumail must face his family wanting to only marry another Indian woman while secretly visiting Emily in the hospital and building a relationship with her parents.

But this is based on a true story that Kumail Nanjiani (who plays himself) had to live through with his now wife Emily Gordan.

Accordioning to theguardian.com Kumail easily recalls his new girlfriend going to the walk in client for a cold and after getting stranded medical tests needing to be put into a coma, Kumail had to be the “family member” to sign the paper allowing this to happen and a doctor frantically asking him if he was her husband walk throwing him a pen. After the doctors eliminated her having Leukemia or HIV it was revealed she had a strange condition called adult-onset Still’s disease. Kumila says during this time he was suppose to be on tour opening for well know comedic Zach Galifianakis. Instead he stayed by Emily’s hospital bed with her parent who flew into New York from South Carolina.

I (Michaela) had a similar experience when I was around 12 years old. I was feeling sick and had a dry cough and a rising fever. While I stayed home from school, I took my temperature and it was at 102 F degrees (39.4C) and texted my mom. She immediately left work to pick me up and brought me to the doctor. They ran an Xray of my chest and gave me a prescription for antibiotics. While my mom was at the pharmacy picking up my medicine, she got a call from the doctor’s office, my Xray results returned and it looked like I had a several case of phenomena in both of my lungs. I was then driven to the hospital and stayed there for about 2 weeks hooked up to an IV and an oxygen tank with a tube across my nose to help me breath. After many nights of one of my parents sleeping the chain in my hospital room, and having teachers deliver me icecream and cards from my classmates, I was finally able to go home.

I hope you got inspired that you can use real stories in the creation of your next film project. Don't forget to support smaller indie films by visiting a local indie cinema, because films like these deserve some major love too :)

Sources: Lewis, T., 2017. The Big Sick's Kumail Nanjiani And Emily V Gordon: 'In America, The Idea Of A Cross-Cultural Relationship Is Still Controversial'. [online] the Guardian. Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/16/the-big-sick-couple-behind-feelgood-comedy-hit-kumail-nanjiani-emily-gordon> [Accessed 29 September 2020].

#indiefilms #behind the scenes #the big sick #romcom #story time

Weekly behind the scenes facts about the cast, crew, and how to's of the production of some of the most iconic indie films, each week we focus on different genres

Check out our partnered podcast! We have talked about our coming our age film Juno, also to match our horror week we have an episode about Parasite. Follow the link to our Spotify page!

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The first thing I do when trying to come up with a movie is I listen to myself. I listen to my emotion, what makes me scared. You know this idea of the doppelgänger came up because I’ve been afraid of the idea of seeing myself, since I was younger. I would literally picture myself across the subway platform. As a kid growing up in New York City, and it was a fun almost titillating fear. But it was just primal, I didn’t, I haven’t intellectualized it or really thought about it, but its almost always been present. The idea of yourself giving you a knowing smile indicating you that I’m the version that was ready for this. There’s something chilling about that. So, I wanted to make a doppelgänger story and the idea of a family of doppelgängers. When I got that idea, when I got that spark, I knew it would kind of be a new direction of doppelganger lore. And then only in analyzing in this, and why this was coming up, do I sort of get at this idea of because collectively we have a dark side. I didn’t set out to make a movie about a post Trump America but its not an accident, that my fears were surrounding this sense of US as a collective, our demons. Currently I at a certain point decided to use United States imagery from whether its from the geocide of the Native Americans, or our xenophobia, and our privilege. But however, you define US, in order you to have US there needs to be a them. I think that’s kind of the in its core what this movie about. That we will value our own, however we see it more than we will value the other.

Jordan Peele on his ideation of his film US

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5U2XyQgcPM

These are great tips from the director of Us and Get Out on how he comes up with his ideas and imagery, perfect for film students who want to make the next best horror film

Sometimes newer directors create the best films, so don't forget to support your local indie film cinemas to find the best gems in the horror industry

#director #directorlife #interviews #behindthescene #horrorfilm #horrorfilmjunkie #indiefilms

Some behind the scenes info from the filming of the independent film the Blair Witch Project. Now for all the aspiring film makers, think creatively about of how you will produce your next project like directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez did for this film. however maybe don't go this far...

And of course don't forget to support your local indie cinemas, actors like Heather Donahue need some recognition for her hard work!

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I was actually crying when I finished the script, so that was my first reaction but that was just, I read the whole book in one sitting. I one go, I just didn’t move for two hours. I read the whole thing page to page. And just loved it, I was kind of like wow, where did this come from? And I called my agent and said how much I loved it, and then I went back to Brown (University) and ended up speaking to a bunch of my friends and mentioned the name of the script that I read, and it turned out that three or four of my friends were actually huge fans of the book, and they started talking to me about it. Turns out that you know this book has this amazing following and, yeah, it was great” “There’s no way that you can read the book having been through, ya know, any kind of high school experience or, ya know. Not even high school experience but just have been through being a teenager and not being able to relate to one of the experiences of the characters. Its just so…it just covers so much…its so real, and so true. And I didn’t need to go to an American high school, or go to prom or have any of those kinds of experiences in order to relate to Same, or Charlie, or Brad, or any of the characters’’ “When I came onto the movie, I was very anxious about ya know trying to figure out how to create these kinds of friendships that they’ve had for such a long time, and I was really worried about it all. It was, ya know, I did all this prep work, and Steven (the director) was like you don’t even have to worry about that. You’re all going to be best friends. And I was like really? And he was like yeah, you’re all going to be best friends, you’re going to have the summer of your life. And I was like okay? And it turned out to totally completely true. I’ve met probably some of my best t friends, you know friends for life honestly through this movie” “Charlie is a…is a kid whose been through a pretty rough time, and he is the sweetest, , most sensitive soul you will ever meet. At the time we meet him at the beginning of the movie his best friend Michael has just died, and he’s in a really scarred anxious place. he’s like just, ya know, he’s just coming to a new high school. he’s meeting new people, he’s dealing with his loos, he’s dealing with his awkwardness. Then Sam I think even more than Patrick in the beginning, really sees that. And sees that, and she decides with Patrick how to take him under their wing, and ya know take care of him and you know shepherd him through high school essentially, which can be ya know an intimidating place. We kind of…yeah we make it all okay.” “Watching Logan (Lerman) be Charlie is just devastating. Ezra and I have watched him a bunch of times and just looked…he’s so…he’s so innately understands Charlie’s awkwardness and kind of his innocence And Logan has that, its interesting. Logan is incredibly smart and you know very professional, very hardworking. But then there’s also this side of Logan that’s incredible just like sweet and very…he just thinks the best of people all the time, and that’s Charlie. He also has that kind of like honestly, that purity.’’ “Patrick is the most charismatic person you’ll ever meet and that’s really who Ezra (Miller) is in real life. You know he’s this incredibly witty outcast basically at school, who is SO over high school, who hates it. he’s very unconventional, he goes against the grain… and he’s Sam’s best friend.” “All of the characters have some sort of serious story lines and dealing with some serious, difficult stuff. But its also very funny, its always just opposed with something very humorous and funny. And that’s when I think things are the saddest and the funniest. When you have that contrast” “its been absolutely amazing to have the man who contextualized it, who dreamed up my character, who dreamed up the whole world to be directing it, as well as writing it. Who has already released the book. Its such a pure line of connection. He has such vision.”

Emma Watson commenting on her experiences working on set for Perks of Being a Wallflower

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja7zh_wBtwM

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D.I.Y Breakfast Club Scene

Did you know dandruff used in Allison's drawing for snow was made from Parmesan cheese?

We all know the 80's loved Indie Film The Breakfast Club, (directed by John Huges) a perfect coming of age film that represents the different cliques that occur in high school. there's one highly iconic scenes with the charter Allison where she is board in Saturday detention (along with the other juveniles) and begins drawing a beautiful bridge over a river in the winter. only problem she needs snow! so she naturally ruffles up her dark hair over her drawling in order for her dandruff to create a snowy effect on the drawling. while shooting this scene the production team felt that Parmesan cheese would be a good substitute for this shoot. Keep reading to learn step by step of creating your own DIY Allison snow.