#juniorcitizens

[maroonmedia]

Join us in wishing a very Happy Birthday to Nateshe Williams who plays "Patricia" in #JuniorCitizens ! Hope you have an amazing birthday weekend! Enjoy ! Be sure to check her out in #JuniorCitizens and her new web series #CrazySexyCool !

[maroonmedia]

🎉Happy Birthday Melissa! 🎉 Everyone join us in wishing, Melissa De Leon, #JuniorCitizens producer and Maroon Media's Producing Partner, a happy birthday!! Have a wonderful day! ☺️

[maroonmedia]

Join us in wishing our Director of Programming and Development, author of The Adventures of Prada Enchilada, (who also stars in #JuniorCitizens as Xavier) Davon Clark, a very happy birthday!!! Happy Birthday Davon!! Thanks for all that you! Wishing you many many more! Enjoy! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[maroonmedia]

Come on out to 6th Street Lounge in Camden to support the #JuniorCitizens fish fry! We're here til 7! 109 N 6th St Camden NJ (at 6th Street Lounge)

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Fish Fry today!!! 2pm-7pm 6th Street Lounge 109 N 6th Street Camden NJ 08102 We'll be raffling off a 19" television! Bring school supplies to donate! See you there! #JuniorCitizens #MaroonMedia #MylestoneCatering

[maroonmedia]

Today, we'd like to wish the talented, Titilola Verissimo who plays Rhonda in #JuniorCitizens a Happy Birthday!! Have a wonderful day lady! 🎉🎉🎉

[natsaithemaroon]

August 3rd

I just sent the scripts over to Titi and Jacynda and I'm thinking "how the fuck are we going to get 6 episodes of lines down?" We can't possibly rehearse it all in bulk they'll probably mix the lines up. I need to read some books or articles on rehearsing with actors. The downside of being the producer/writer/director is that I tend to neglect the directing portion. All I think about is raising money, allocating the money appropriately, budgeting, scheduling. Cool. Now I have to create the scripts. Lock myself away for a week and pluck my brain. Done. Break down the script. Done. Look for casting call locations. FUCK. Look for shooting locations. Double fuck.

Oh yeah! I'm the director too! I have to get my actors into character and introduce them to the story world. I'm thinking at this point in the game I'm going to have to let my assistant director and producers do their jobs because I can't neglect my actors. I can't just throw them the script and tell them to memorize it, they don't understand the backstory. That's where I come in. I have to direct now. At the end of the day we can organize everything but if the actors don't know their lines and they suck at delivering them that will ruin the story. And that will be on me. Everything is on me. 

[natsaithemaroon]

Challenges

I've decided to take the BlueCat Screenplay Challenge. It's when you write every day for a month and the goal is by the end of said month you have a 100-page screenplay. It'll be a shitty first draft but it's something to work with. It'll probably be a great head start for the Screenwriting Certificate program I'm enrolled in at the New School. I cannot wait to get started on that! It feels like I'm entering a whole new chapter of my life and I'm doing my best to accept it all. 

On another note I've been reading Spike Lee's book for 'She's Gotta Have It.' He went through a lot of shit to get that funded man. Can you believe $175,000 is considered a shoestring budget? That's why I side-eyed the people who told me $10,000 for a production was too much. It's a struggle! This is an ultra-low budget production but hey, it is getting done. Hopefully season 2 we can advance in the ranks a bit. God, I with more grants were available for web series. And as much as this process is aggravating I keep coming up with episodic shows.

As soon as I master the art of creating deadlines in the short term and (especially) the long-term I'll really get the hang of this. I hate that I can't find a location for the casting call 16 days before I want it to begin. I should have created the 8/18 deadline at least a month ago. I want to begin shooting 9/19. We MUST begin shooting 9/19.