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Ryan M
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23. "RE: 20 pages in a week is good..."
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What was it like being on a set without an
>AD? Before I worked on my friend's shoot, I didn't know what
>an Assistant Director did btu I realized it's necessary to
>keep everything moving smoothly.

It wasn't so cool. The PM and I pretty much switched off on AD work since we know how essential it is to have one, yet the other producer (who swore up and down he would be Producer/AD) didn't really care to have one...especially because that would speed production up and he and the director had this odd idea that if a day was short (or shorter than 12 hours) that we obviously weren't doing a good job and getting good footage.

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>Also, why did you attach yourself to a script you obviously
>thought was crappy? I assume you weren't too involved in the
>development.

I wasn't involved in script development whatsoever. The reason I attached myself was because at my school (a Cal State school...during a time where we're in a budget crisis) selects 4-5 projects to be made as senior films out of about 20 submitted scripts. In the mean time, people scramble to attach themselves to projects, because in your proposal, you must submit the people you have for major crew positions (DP(s), Producer(s), Editor(s), Sound, etc.). So I had my name on about 3-4 projects. Only ONE of those I was actually really interested in producing.

That project was submitted by the DP of this film. It was a slice of life type film about a girl with cancer. The guy who submitted it actually had cancer when he was about 17 or so and survived and has this work ethic that's just unreal...plus he's great at everything he does. He's the coolest guy I've met in film school, bar none. He actually turned down acceptance to MIT because his passion is film, and he wanted to go to film school. Anyway, he wrote this script and pitched it to the American Cancer Society, and they offered $2000 to donate to it. The script itself was rough...but he was offering myself a lot of input creatively to help improve it.

Anyway, that project didn't get selected, but he was DPing on this one (which was obviously selected) so I decided it'd be okay. Plus the director wasn't someone I was friends with, per se, but a decent guy who had made lots of films, so he was at least experienced. He didn't allow us to give notes on the script, nothing (I found this out in our 2nd post-being-accepted meeting)...so essentially, I didn't care about the script, but as I said...I felt at that point I'd already made my senior film with that NYU project (which I was involved in development from day 1), so this was merely for the grade.

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I just finished shooting what could be the worst movie ever made. [View all] , Ryan M, Mon Apr-18-05 01:01 AM
 
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damn
Apr 18th 2005
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I'm PRETTY sure John Waters never said...
Apr 18th 2005
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      Brett Ratner maybe
Apr 18th 2005
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           haha
Apr 18th 2005
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                Nothing THIS guy has ever made commands the respect Rush Hour does.
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What exactly
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Producers
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What I did...
Apr 18th 2005
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how about a fucking spoiler alert
Apr 18th 2005
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RE: how about a fucking spoiler alert
Apr 18th 2005
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good luck
Apr 18th 2005
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I LOVE IT!
Apr 18th 2005
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thought it was just me lol
Apr 19th 2005
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is 1.5 pages a day a lot or a little?
Apr 18th 2005
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Very little.
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      20 pages in a week is good...
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so what was morale like?
Apr 18th 2005
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Let's see.
Apr 18th 2005
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      RE: Let's see.
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      I did it for school credit.
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      Tell us what a production manager does. And, how are you going...
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           PM/AP...
Apr 18th 2005
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that's pretty awful
Apr 18th 2005
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My advice...
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      i'm in a young filmmaker's group.
Apr 19th 2005
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Thank you, this post made my....hour
Apr 18th 2005
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Ha. Thanks.
Apr 18th 2005
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When does it hit the big screen?
Apr 18th 2005
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I'd LOVE to do a commentary.
Apr 18th 2005
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pitch it to miramax.
Apr 18th 2005
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lol
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