Posts made in December, 2012

In The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 337—Script day!

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In The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 337—Script day!

Day 337: It was actually a script week, especially for Screenwriter Monica, who banged out a rewrite for me in like a week and a rewrite of that rewrite in 36 hours.  Rock star!  But today it all came to a head.  Today was a full 12 hours sitting with my co-producer and director going through the script, line by line, scene by scene with Screenwriter Monica at the ready to write scenes for us and send them electronically. Intense! But it was good. We’re all very delirious now and in need of sleep and perspective.  So, we’ll see how it reads in the morning. Fingers crossed we love it! Until tomorrow, create from what you have…working Sundays. Kelli Joan Bennett is a...

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In The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 336—Smile!

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In The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report:  Day 336—Smile!

Day 336:  Good morning, creators!  What is everyone creating today?  Health?  Peace?  Love?  Kindness?  A fun weekend?  An event?  A rewrite?  Let’s make a pact to only create positive energy, thought, action and deed today.  Are you with me?  Come on!  Turn that frown upside down!  Grumpy?  Bitter?  Tired?  Don’t grumble and stop reading.  Act “as if.”  It’s one of my favorite Meisner acting techniques to get you where you want to go.  I won’t go into too much detail but the goal is to think of a real or imagined event that creates the emotion you want to be feeling in that particular scene…or in our case, throughout our day.  Think about the happiest moment of your...

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