Recent content by Kandiman

That's the trouble. Everyone wants cheap reality TV, for which I have a single idea - if you can sell it, I'm happy to co-produce. But I write teen drama. And there are only a handful of outlets for that, and getting the right price/style/originality balance is a nightmare. I currently have a...

While there's nothing wrong, in principle, with cold-calling networks as a producer... I wouldn't recommend doing it unless you can finance a pilot if they ask for one. Of course, that depends on your genre, too. I mean, I can produce a pilot for a documentary for next to nothing, but the show...

Well, it's hard for me to answer this without knowing your script or storyboard, but the simple answer is very carefully. If you can avoid actually hanging the actor, or doing a long shot, that would be massively advisable. If it were me, I'd have the actor 'hung' but standing on something...

So many tips. Drop me a PM if you want, I'll ship you my MSN and give you a crash course. It's pretty easy to learn as a vocation if you're willing to listen. Creds: 12 self-writter/produced/directed features, three years in television and currently working on a prime time tv show and...

Yeah, finding actors in bars, old school friends, anything can help. I just signed on to produce a movie; the writer/co-producer went to school with Kelly Preston and Jim Simpson, an award-nominated director better known as Sigourney Weaver's husband. We've already signed on an award-winning...

Depends how low level the celebrity. I once got a low level celebrity to agree to do a short I made on the basis of swapped numbers on napkins and buying her a drink. You'd never get Tom Cruise that way, but I expect you'd get everyone from I'm A Celebrity not named 'Baldwin' for not a great...

Thing is, prepare ten by all means. But if the producer hates your first five ideas, what're the chances they want to hear six? Especially if you have no pre-existing pedigree? I've had the yeses and I've even been told on the fifth pitch 'It's a good job that one was good, I wasn't going to...

There's lying and there's role playing. One of the things I did when I first started acting, to get practice, was mystery shopping. It's a great way to home your acting skills, your improv skills and get paid at the same time, without risking your friedships with an endless stream of lies.

While I have every respect for Jon Fauer's knowledge, the problem with his advice is that he's not a writer/director. He's a cinematographer. And I don't know many cinematographers that go to pitch meetings. I'm say go in with three to five ideas, but have them be fully-developed 'I can get...

I've pitched to networks a couple of times (I do TV mostly nowadays) and I find that having three ideas is usually sufficient for them to take an interest. To get yourself on the option block (Can't help you much further than that) the trick is to work a checklist: Appearance: Dress smart...

I shot my first feature aged twelve and I'm 24 now, so I know exactly what you're dealing with. Assuming you intend to do basically what I did - shoot using friends as actors and beg, borrow or steal locations, props, whatever - then I suggest you keep it very simple. I found comedy is the...

Wow, is that Austin O'Brien from My Girl 2, or a different one? Might check it out. I don't suppose there's any chance I'm going to be able to buy it R2, is there? It'd be nice not to wait a month to ship it. LOL.