Three weeks ago I received an email from my good friend Kevin Foong about a Frenchmen in need of an actor. David Dang was the man from France that i met with to see if we were a fit, and I can tell you that we were, right from the start. He and I spoke for at least an hour at Starbucks on 71st and Broadway, about his vision and about our common interests. I was picked to be the male lead in his short film which is always a nice feeling.
So I am learning a lot about the things that can go wrong on a shoot if you can classify the sun not staying exactly where you want it to in sky as something going wrong. Even in the shortest of short films time can be your worse enemy because like my buddy Josh G. always quotes "You can make time and you can lose time, but you will never find time." Time=Light When you are shooting on a absolutely gorgeous sun drenched day. I did not love my performance...I felt unnatural and somewhat cliché in most of my lines. Now it is possible that I was just stuck in my head allowing the stress of the time crunch to weigh in on my performance, or I could have been off in general.
I have some great take- aways from this shoot that i plan to "put in my hopper" so I am content with the job. David is a talent that keeps on honing his skills with each and every piece of work he puts his hand to. We plan to work on something the next time he is in NYC or I am in Paris. So "THIS IS SUPA COOL FOR ME."
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