“From Pocket to Projector: Discover How Jamie Grefe Filmed Two Movies on His Phone!”
Ashley
Yeah. What is your pitch to the models? So, these were models that you’ve never been in person. And what is your pitch? I’m an independent filmmaker. I’m going to show up with my phone and just shoot some footage. How do you get models to even agree to that? I mean, I’m sure they’re potentially afraid to just be in a house with some dude that they don’t know making a weird movie.
Jamie Grefe
Yeah, well, I mean, I’m very transparent about who I am. So this is like, this is who I am. This is like a link to some stuff I’ve done. This is me. This is my phone number. This is my real name. All of that stuff is usually given pretty quickly. And then the pitch is just like, to be honest with you, actually, a lot of it is just like, here’s how much I’ll pay you. And it’s like, this is how much I… you know, and a lot of people, not everybody, but like, some people are like, I think they’ll vet, you know, they’ll do a little vetting, like, is he legit? Okay, what do you want to shoot? And I’ll say, well, I just, you know, I’m going to get some monologues, I want to get some close ups, I want to do this, I want to do that, I want to do this, I want to do that, maybe I’ll give them some shots from the shot list. Like, these are some things I’d like to get. And there’s probably going to be some other things, but no surprises. And everything that we’re doing is going to be consensual, like, I’m not going to do, I’m not going to force anything upon you that you don’t want to do. And I think after that, it’s just a leap of faith for these models. I mean, you’d be surprised a lot of models or actors, they do, they operate on these levels that are, you know, you got to be careful, obviously, like, anybody has to be careful out there, especially if you’re a young woman. But yeah, and I might have a little bit of reputation, I have references to like, if somebody wants a reference from somebody that I’ve worked with, I’ve got, I’ve got references.
