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Chad’s ode to the actor, part 3: closing the deal let’s say you’re starting a business making cupcakes out of your home kitchen. so you make a bunch of cupcakes, you find people who like cupcakes and you sell them your delicious homemade cupcakes. seems simple enough, right? that’s business. those are the basics of [...]

I recently had an opportunity to work with a well known reality TV star, (The client that I was working with does not want to reveal detail until they do their own announcement so for now we will call the talent Mr. P.) and during the preproduction process the client asked me to work with a 3rd [...]

Chad’s ode to the actor, part 2: the art of meeting people there’s a controversial saying in basically any business, but it’s particularly contentious in show business, that’s “it’s all who you know.” while i’d love to say that that saying is a bunch of hooey, there is unfortunately some truth to it. of course [...]

this was re-posted from MsYoung-movie.com, the site about everything related to our first company feature film. the original post was titled: location scout trip Kendall and i went on a trip to Reno a couple weeks to check out a few locations. it appears as if that trip was a great success. i’m not the [...]

Today I read an article by Evan Luzi who writes a blog (The Black and Blue) from the perpective of a freelance 1st AD. Since I spend most of my time on set working with and socializing with the camera and electric department I am very familiar with what they do. I also work on [...]

Chad’s ode to the actor, part 1: the importance of knowing your casting back when i was in college, one of my instructors told me about “casting” and how important it was for me to know my “casting”. for non-actors out there, an actor’s “casting” is the general range of roles for which he or [...]

this was re-posted from MsYoung-movie.com, the site about everything related to our first company feature film. the original post was titled: moving forward in 2013 obviously “Ms Young” had fallen to the superfreakos‘ back burner for a while. we needed to focus on lower hanging fruit to get our new company up and running. that [...]

So I have been officially called out on being 8 months late on my blog post, but to be fair I was a department head on two features in 2012, so I have forgiven myself. I did suffer through a pretty severe brow beating at our last company meeting so I am back on the horse and [...]