Thank you to you, our audience. You might not be aware of the fact that you are contributing to the production of The Louise Log. Yup. Just by watching. And if you ‘Like’ it, comment on it or share it, you’re actually making a significant contribution. There is little in the way of glory [...]
making The Louise Log #31:How To Fake It
Electrifyingly bad news On August 21, 2010, the ninth of the fourteen shooting days for Season Two, my utterly reliable crew of Deb Micallef, Nik Kundel and Mike Huson assembled early to get ready. (above: Leer Leary (l.) and Tom Tinelli (r.) do not double as crew members.) I was doing my Louise best to keep some [...]
How To Kill At Social Media: LinkedIn
My dear friends, I am very sorry. This whole social media/networking thing is so awkward, so extremely uncomfortable. I’ve been unable to either properly embrace it or walk away from it and finally, buckling to my extreme desire to get The Louise Log out to its audience, am trying to find a way to work [...]
making The Louise Log #30: How To Be Woman
A web series within a web series Movies about the making of movies (Fellini’s 8 1/2, Truffaut’s Day For Night and Tom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion) have long been among my favorites, so to realize this series of episodes about a production going off the rails has been incredibly satisfying. Beyond that, it was a [...]
making The Louise Log #29: How To Cope With War On A Video Set
So, I just had a ‘yikes’ moment reading notes from August 29, 2010 when we shot this episode. It was bracing, then and now. On top of the perennial last-minute production challenges, we were facing five more days of shooting with no one scheduled to record sound and all our leads coming to dead ends. A key [...]
making The Louise Log #28: How To Be Cool
The Weather I didn’t write down the details of the weather for August 25, 2010, but I fear that everyone involved in the shoot has it branded on their brains: it was a 95 degree-plus, humid, NYC dog day. I know this because everyday we shot in August of 2010 was record-breaking for heat and [...]
A Quick Look Back, and Off Into 2012
In November of 2007, shortly before Christine Cook and I were scheduled to shoot for the first time at the Union Square farmers market in New York City, Chris came down with the flu and called to postpone. I remember my entire body gasping in relief: “NO PROBLEM!” I shouted into the phone, giddy at the sudden reprieve. [...]