HIRING A CREW
FILMMAKING NOTES

Job Hiring Your Production Crew – When hiring your CREW, first and foremost what you’re looking for is other leaders. People who will take their position and own it – make themselves the LEADER of that job. This is a collaborative medium. Everyone can pour themselves into the film, no matter which position they have, and just plain make the film better.

If everyone on your set works that much harder, and believes in the project with their inner soul, then you have the makings of a great film. In previous films I’ve learned what not when hiring a crew.

As the Producer and/or Director, you are the LEADER of the film. You have to make tough decisions. Hiring Your Crew is the first, and sometimes the toughest, decision you have to make.

I’ve learned two major hiring mistakes in the past:

1) DO NOT…

Watch 1st Scene Reading of YONKHEER:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
Jan – Brett J. Kelly
Cornelis – Jason J. Thomas
Agnes – Danielle Nicole
Hilde/Rachel – Maya Woloszyn
Magdalene – Holly Sarchfield

Get to know writer Wendy Jane Henson:

1. What is your screenplay about?

A rowdy romp with the young lord of a manor when only his wit, daring, and a saucy barmaid can save his life.

2. Why should this script be made into a movie?

Offering tongue-in-cheek humor, strong characters and compelling storyline full of skullduggery and romance, it will delight audiences, male or female, age 13 and up. Based on real people and actual events, the struggles and feelings of the characters seem modern despite the fact they lived in the 1600s.

3. How long have you been writing stories?

My mother said I started acting out stories for my dolls when I was…

Watch 1st Scene Reading of YONKHEER:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
Jan – Brett J. Kelly
Cornelis – Jason J. Thomas
Agnes – Danielle Nicole
Hilde/Rachel – Maya Woloszyn
Magdalene – Holly Sarchfield

Get to know writer Wendy Jane Henson:

1. What is your screenplay about?

A rowdy romp with the young lord of a manor when only his wit, daring, and a saucy barmaid can save his life.

2. Why should this script be made into a movie?

Offering tongue-in-cheek humor, strong characters and compelling storyline full of skullduggery and romance, it will delight audiences, male or female, age 13 and up. Based on real people and actual events, the struggles and feelings of the characters seem modern despite the fact they lived in the 1600s.

3. How long have you been writing stories?

My mother said I started acting out stories for my dolls when I was…

Watch the Feature Film Reading of THE PAPER ROUTE:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Holly Sarchfield
Paul – Aaron Drake
Brian – Declan Spellman
Barb – Maya Woloszyn
Roscoe/Lackey – Jason J. Thomas
Leroy/Eddie – Brett J. Kelly
Stella – Danielle Nicole

Get to know writer Danny M. Howell:

1. What is your screenplay about?

“The Paper Route” is the story of Paul, an almost-sixteen-year-old who discovers a chance to escape a world very few people really get away from: the mean poverty of a small town in the hill country of Indiana, where every day is a struglgle to survive, between his harsh family life and a town full of dangerous characters. The rub is that the price of escape is leaving behind Paul’s little brother, Brian, who worships him and depends on him for safety and love.

2. Why should this script be made into a movie?

‘The Paper…

Watch the Best Scene Reading of MORPH:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Danielle Nicole
Jack – Brett J. Kelly
Pablo – Aaron Drake
Jimmy – Jason J. Thomas

Get to know writer Christine Davis:

1. What is your TV screenplay about?

“Morph” is a sci-fi story about a Los Angeles homicide detective named Jack who, in the course of investigating a series of murders, is taken captive by those behind the killings. Unfortunately for him, he finds out firsthand what it is they’ve been doing to victims when they administer a DNA-altering serum that causes him to change – morph – from a regular man into something not quite human. In this initial offering, the pilot of the series, it’s up to his new partner Morty from the East Coast, and two fellow detectives, to find and save him. Morty gets to him and as a result becomes the only other…

The WILDsound Film and Writing Festival is proud to announce an historic month of June. This month we showcased 5 amazing short films at our festival. We performed 10 screenplays, 2 stage plays, 3 novels, 1 short story, 6 poetry readings, 24 Twitter short story movies, and turned 3 poems into movies! In total, we showcased 54 videos of new works to the world in just 30 days, not including the 59 new poetry writings, and the 108 new loglines entries we showcased on our network.

Watch the best of the Festival in June 2015:

Highlights from the June 2015 FEEDBACK Film Festival
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/june_2015_film_festival.html

Feature SCRIPT – I’M STILL HERE
June 2015 Reading
Written by Sean Elwood
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/im_still_here_feature_script.html

TV PILOT SCRIPT – SEX THERAPY
June 2015 Reading
Written by Michelle J Brezinski
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/sex_therapy.html

TV SPEC SCRIPT – IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA
June 2015 Reading
Written by Keith Black
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/its_always_sunny_in_philadelphia.html

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK for the Short Film MY MILK CUP COW:

Matthew Toffolo interviews director Yantong ZHU:

Matthew: What motivated you to make this film?

Yantong: My Milk Cup Cow is made as an graduation film of my MA in Tokyo University of the Arts. I thought that it is the best time for me to make this film, which I thought for many years, make a film about father. I was inspired by my father a lot when I was a child. I think he showed me what the best father did for a child. I wanted to turn my memory into something, that’s why I started to make this film.

Matthew: From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

Yantong: About 2 years.

Matthew: This film feels so much like a real life story. It has a…

Deadline TODAY: SUBMIT TV PILOT/SPEC Script – Get FULL FEEDBACK. Get script performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/tvscreenplaycontest.html

Watch TV PILOT: NO LOVE DOVES, by Alexandre Kounde

SYNOPSIS:

An infidelity private investigator strives to maintain balance between his hectic job, his conjugal relationship and his dormant sex addiction.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Allison Kampf
Marcus – Mark Sparks
Dhara – Amaka Umeh
Sydney – Ashley Arnett
Randolph – Lucas James
Moira – Val Cole
Luke – Andrew Tite
Victor – John Goodrich

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Watch WINNING TV PILOT Screenplay Readings
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/tv_pilot_readings.html

Watch WINNING TV SPEC Screenplay Readings
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/tv_spec_readings.html

READ 100s of testimonials for past submitters –
http://www.wildsound.ca/wildsound_festival_review.html