Friday, February 19, 2010

Today is Baby Elephant Day



in the Pandora Machine. They come to us via Cukisag. And no, I don't have the diacritical marks required to actually write "Cukisag".

Via Bill Martell -- Hitchcock does Kuleshov.


Ability as an actor only accounts for (maybe) 50% of their performance. The editor creates a performance more than they do. I'm lucky. I have an editor who's a Carnegie Mellon trained actor. Although many (most) editors don't have actor training -- they have editor training (however they came to get it) and... they still carry most of the acting load.

That's very unintuitive for the actors. And probably a bit demoralizing.

*****

The Asylum, our old distributor and a production company which unlike virtually all other mini-studios is actually successful says they had their best market ever in Berlin this year. Our rep Ray is in Berlin. Hope he did well too!

4 comments:

  1. as an actor, director & editor, i find these statements utter poppycock.
    in other words, i respectfully disagree. :)

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  2. You're saying that ISN'T a baby elephant? That's ridiculous. Oh well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

    At least the baby elephant isn't in a bikini.

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  3. I want a baby elephant to edit my next movie. They're so adorable!

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  4. A baby elephant will direct MY next movie! ;-)

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My lawyer says we have to protect ourselves: note that we're constantly developing screenplays, we probably have a screenplay like what you suggest in development. Furthermore, if you suggest an idea for a screenplay you're giving us that idea.