Lisa Talley

I had a DP who just set up 2 tota-lights, one with a blue gel and one with a red gel, and had a PA swivel them on the stands left and right. Came out all right, I thought. Video Production

While working on a senior film in college, I made a shot list without seeing the location first for one of the scenes. The location was locked down last minute and there was no time for me to go study it. I thought I would be all right since I was able to Google the apartment complex's unit layouts... When we arrived there, my shot list went out the window. It looked nothing like what I had seen, which was due to furniture layout and the images of the units possibly being out of date. I ended up calling shots on the fly... it wasn't a total disaster since I had already planned out what I wanted the scene to look like. ANY pre-production is better than none. If you can scout and actually see the location, awesome, do that. If you can't, well... storyboard at least what you want the scene to look like. You can modify it as you need to when you get to the location. If you're working with a DP, ask him/her what he/she prefers. Some people prefer being a part of the storyboard process, some do fine with a list i.e. shots # 1. 2. 3. 4. .. and I know one who picks up on direction on the spot day of. It all depends, but no matter what, for yourself, make an effort to story board. Video Production

It started with a love for horror. When I was 19 my buddy and I were standing in line for a Bouncing Souls concert talking about the latest grotesque movie we had just watched. (We made it our business to critique everything like a set of Horror-Siskel & Ebert) For once, we were actually disagreeing on something so I looked at him and asked "Can you do better?" and therein began the filmmaking passion. We found a scriptwriting competition that granted the winner the making of their screenplay, sat down and powered through a story (knowing nothing about scripting). When nothing came of the competition we said "screw it" let's make stuff ourselves... and we did... We made our own horror movies. They didn't always go very well or come out the best, but they were fun and full of our own brand of weird. My genres have expanded, but horror is still my first love :) Video Production

"The Knife" was very cool. Concept, shot composition, color, pacing, lighting... awesome execution. Speaking of lighting, how did you handle the campfire scenes? I've wanted to do scenes centered around a campfire, but have yet to have the opportunity and I wonder what it would take to compete with heavy shadows, as well as little to no power. Video Production

Ticket prices are pretty obscene, I think, but I don't absolutely need to see even half the things that come out while they're new. The fact that $1 & $3 theaters, drive ins, discount hours (or even days in major theaters), Netflix and Redbox all exist make it easy to skirt such high prices, all one has to do is just wait a little while. I'll agree, ticket prices for movie theaters suck, but ... it's really just a first world problem; give it a bit of time and wait to see your movie of choice through some other outlet to save yourself a hefty buck. Video Production