Saturday, February 9, 2008

Actors

Actors for student films are soooooooo hard to find. It's easy making a film around college aged students because then all your friends want to volunteer and be in a movie. But god forbid you try and make a film about adults. They are sooooo much harder to work with. Especially since they could all be my parents. It's just awkward bossing them around and calling them. I know I need to get over this and learn to work with them. But its weird! I just got out of high school where I couldn't boss anyone around. Now i'm suddenly in college and i'm supposed to be bossing people around that are like 45 and 50??? Thats why I wanna be an editor...not have to work with actors that either think they are too good for your movie, or they just don't understand the movie so they do a half ass job. Go film school. Teaching me how to disregard everything that society had taught me about my elders and seniority. Woot woot.

And to cheer me up from my woe is me spew I have included a picture of an actress I actually wouldn't mind working with and bossing around, ha.



Who wouldn't wanna work with Jodie though? She's a freaking goddess when it comes to film.

1 comment:

TheWeyrd1 said...

I agree with your Jodie choice. Of course I'm pretty much the same age. If I were in your neck of the woods I'd volunteer to act...but uh...I'm probably much better in the technical department than the acting department. I did continuity for a short that was filmed in Boulder, Colorado and help block a love scene between two girls... Yeah, they were 17 and 18 I think. That was 15 or 16 years ago when I was young...sigh