Sunday, April 10, 2011

Without Words

Episode 2 of The Starmind Record is "in the can", and all I can do is back-up the footage and get back to processing the files from Episode 1. The only way I'm going to be able to explain what it is we have here is to show you.

After wrapping our blog session with several one-take prints, Charlotte was asking me some questions about the development of her character. Her concern was about delivering an arc that, on paper, looks extreme and sudden. My assurances weren't helping her any, so I broke one of my core rules and showed an actor some raw footage.

"Oh."

That's not a direct quote, but that's all she had to say. Her performance and the work of the actors around her is as rich and complex, as terrifying and funny, as anything you could hope to see in an Oscar-winning production. The Starmind Record may be the web series that finally shows people what this format is good for, and what it is capable of.

There's a lot more to be done before I can show you what she saw, so I'm getting back to work. More to come.

-T

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