Category: Los Angeles
You are Prepping a Story, not a Budget…
A good friend of mine wrote this bit. I love the title and I love what he has to say!
Empty stages await their sets on “Chicago Fire”.
The only way to capture the modern audience is to mount TV shows that have detail, texture and tone to engage them, keep them entertained and most importantly—make them want to come back to watch next week. Good scripts given a proper staging, letting actors look their best—these things make a difference in the way the audiences perceive the quality of the show and their desire to continue watching.
I’ve had the great good fortune to produce for Dick Wolf for many years on numerous projects. Luckily, I had worked in the industry for almost 20 years before I met Dick, so I had already made my rookie producer mistakes, like pushing the Director of Photography to make daylight on way too big a shot on my first TV movie. The poor DP did it, but it took 2 hours to…
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Happy Halloween!
Percentage of people in LA/the entertainment industry who understood my costume: 100
Percentage of people everywhere else who understood my costume: 0-60
Maybe this picture helps?
If you still don’t understand, you’re kind of a lost cause. I’m a brad! Aka a brass fastener.
Have a spooktacular holiday! I hope your costumes are equally creative and perplexing.
Even the inanimate objects at work were celebrating!
Side note: I don’t endorse or use Equal. No H8 and no aspartame for me.
Not Without My Obscure Sally Field Movie Reference (or my dancing shoes)
Yesterday, I posted this picture on my Insta/Facebook/Twitter with the caption “I landed the lead role in the Not Without My Daughter remake!”
My best friend’s mom commented on it and told me I should be putting this stuff in a blog. Well, here it is!
What’s more important for me to write about is where this photo was taken. I was getting ready to perform in the LA Unbound summer dance show. I got involved with Unbound back in 2008 when my friend convinced me to be in her Britney Spears megamix. For those interested in seeing said dance, just Youtube “LA Unbound” to find their channel. I won’t clutter the space here with some of those videos, especially because I looked like a n00b in some of the earlier performances. I haven’t danced in a show since 2011. I was beginning to miss it, so I went to auditions a few months ago and was put in my friend’s Bollywood piece set to “Jai Ho.” You’ll remember these people dancing to that song at the end of a certain Oscar-winning movie:
Brad Milison 