A message from sylviatoyindustries

keskarel navapeac <keskarel@gmail.com>

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The real deal

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keskarel navapeac <keskarel@gmail.com>	Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM
To: Mike Lewis, Diana Slampyak, Nidal Yousef, Chris Arthur-Henly Robinson, Nima Nejad, Sapna Gandhi, Steve Lewis
thank you all for getting me the best 60th birthday present imaginable. i have made a director's cut for one of my online portfolios (the curated one), and will never be able to thank you all enough for something that in spades is exactly what i wanted. i'm so proud of and thrilled with my director's cut of the storyboard. now i need to move over a little so everyone else can get the movie they can be proud of. i will be in producer role, and mike's and chris's roles, if they are willing, will be directoral. i will try to get at least one person who wants & needs a PA internship. i think it is likely that we will not have to reshoot the LA clips if i can tweak them well enough. mike thinks we can shoot the movie in a week or less. we probably have most of what we need. i'm pricing reflectors - there are some kits on sale for under $15 on Amazon at the moment - i will ask mike to check them out and see what he thinks. i can't afford the kind and quality of shotgun mic that i have to have, but mics are not that expensive to rent. i have a mixer that i've never used, but there's a mini-mixer on my Juiced Link XLR mic adapter and it's probably better than my Eurorack. i am hoping to enlist the cooperation of Hayes Valley Merchants Assn so we won't have to have obtain permits. At any rate, we won't be shooting until after the Board of Supes drops the daily rate for permits, which is supposed to happen in October. where we shoot the apartment scenes is an issue, but i've already talked to some friends who own the places where they live, and i don't think space is going to be a horrible problem for us. it's likely among all of us, we have contacts who own or have access (legal access) to property that's unoccupied. i know i'm overly optimistic, but that's what it takes: "watch my movie, which was completed in 8 months and cost probably less than $500, AND IS ALMOST COMPLETELY IMPROVISED." glass 3/4 full, my friends. to be continued to completion. sylvia

Act One, Scene One

Keskarel a Quicktime storyboard, Act 3

Still very rough - but the characters' growth was huge yesterday. and we are very excited that we seem to be going in the right direction with our story development. Thanks to AD Chris for the script the actors' improvisation is based on.

thanks for reading our blog.

sylvia

Keskarel and her neighbor this weekend: Improv + rehearsal

we are fortunate to have a mistress at improv for a star. Diana Slampyak has keen instincts, supreme intelligence and tremendous generosity - all the important assets of an improv actor and more. this rehearsal clip really illustrates Diana's skill. without much speaking, she drives the scene.

much thanks to AD Chris for his risk-taking shooting, and for writing this scene.