This is a job offer which pays nothing in a Northern Ontario mining town.
We have shot approximately 33% of a full length independent film. We are using black and white High 8, VHS C, and DV, dumping them and editing, at this point, with Adobe Premiere.
We have a home-made Steady-Cam, 80 feet of dolly track, with, if we may say so, quite a smooth ride atop. We have other camera wonders we'd like to pull, subtle, slow camera movements. Nothing jerky. We want to show that independent cinema doesn't have to be a constant hand held nightmare, doesn't have to have "documentary style" edits to mask the fact you just plain couldn't do the work.
The technology is here and we have a full length dialogue driven comedy --no tricks, no pranks, no second rate idiocy. Three characters in their mid-twenties learning things about each other in between conversations about film. Walt lives in his mother's basement, enjoys Lucas, Spielberg, Smith. Greg, a sarcastic aspiring film-maker enjoys Kubrick, Felini, Jarmusch.. And Joe, an aspiring song writer, enjoys Kimberly Peirce, Herron, Ashby.
- Operate a large camera with/without a tripod.
- Hold a heavy thing with a camera on it and walk backwards.
- Clean up after one's self.
- Live with four other collaborators.
- Working odd strange hours.
- Get exotic pastries, nobody ever gets exotic pastries.
- Engage in various food preparation procedures/rituals/desperate alley murder.
- Know how to ignorantly keep your dumb-ass mouth shut and your has-been ideas to yourself.
- Can take such ill mannered drunken verbal assaults with good humor.
- Enjoy crafts
- Hardworking and serious, dedicated to doing something and doing it well.
- Feather fetish? a little feather fetish never hurt anybody.
- Strong distaste for ?Plymouth Rock White Man' Hollywood drivel.
- Balanced, honest person, secure in who they are, despite what nasty troll on their shoulder might argue.
- Thinks tasteful means knowing one's taste and trying to educate it more than it does to follow an arbitrary social concept.
- Hates money.
- Talks to complete strangers about wide ranging political issues.
- Understands why they think a film is good or bad.
- Has a childhood memory about a dog, a good one though, with no biting.
- Vulgar disregard for the law.
- Impeccable manners
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Letters from Charlie: Chapter One