“From Pocket to Projector: Discover How Jamie Grefe Filmed Two Movies on His Phone!”
I’m also knee deep in my rewrite on my low budget rom-com I’m putting together. Right after Thanksgiving, I did a table read, which was via Zoom. And that’s something that maybe I should talk about at some point, because I find them very helpful. It’s just a pretty easy exercise and everybody is so used to Zoom calls these days. It was easy to put together. But again, I’m in LA, so I know a lot of actors. But basically, I just get an actors, I get actors for all the main roles. This is a low budget rom-com. So, I think I only had four or five actors. I had two main actors. And then I had two or three other actors that just played some of the smaller roles. And then I also had an actor who did the narration. And so I just went through the script, everybody’s on Zoom, you can hear it, you can see them talking. And the actors, it’s a cold read. So, for the most part, they haven’t read the script ahead of time. But these are good actors that I know. And I cast them sort of accordingly, knowing the role and what they’re good at. And so, it’s just very valuable to hear your script actually performed by an actor. Again, it’s not super polished. And sometimes the actors stumble on a line or go back. But it just sort of gives you a sense of the pacing. And then the other big piece of that is after the reading, people give notes. So, I invited some of my other writer friends to this Zoom call and they were on and listened and then also got some notes from them. So, it’s just a really good educational process. And there’s a lot of notes that come from that. So, then you have to sort of go through the notes and figure out how to address some of them, all of them. What notes are you going to address? Which ones are the important ones? And that’s never an easy process. And that’s sort of what I’m doing now. I’m going back through the script, I’m looking at all the notes and I’m trying to figure out what my next step is. But hopefully I’ll have a draft here fairly shortly and then I can really begin pre-production in earnest.
