Up late last night...sitting with two different editors at two different locations working on 3 different projects...all of which are being screened on Sunday...
Late last night I was going through hours of footage that was shot last Summer for a sit com pilot that I co wrote, co-produced...
Man, I havent laughed that hard in a while...there is a lot of funny funny stuff there... I cant wait to start churning it out.
The initial plan was to create a 30 minute sit com pilot...write a few more episodes...and pitch that bitch... anywhere and everywhere.
Well...one year later...after a move to the West Coast and plenty of acclimation time...I'm still sitting on all this great footage... so for the time being...I'm going to be whipping together a few short episodes for the internet while I start writing more material for the series...
Anyway...a trailer for that project will be screened on Sunday as well and will likely be posted on Youtube and the Indie City website on Monday.
This particular project has to receive an official name. I have played around with a few working titles...but nothing has quite had the pleasure of sticking.... It was "Just Point Me" for a while...which is a shortened version of "Just Point me in the Right Direction." JPMITRD is the name of the short play, written by Marcus Jones, that inspired the series concept. I was calling it "Bad Apple Studios" for a while. "Bad Apple Studios" is the ficticious name of fledgling New York City acting school that serves as the setting (and a character) for the series.
But still havent quite found the right one.
So today, just on a whim, I decided to send a text message to some of my more creative friends...asking for some help on the matter. I popped out a text to about 20 people, figuring I'd get maybe 5 responses. 2 minutes later I was getting slammed...
Trying to field text messages and respond to a barrage of incoming contributions while driving is no easy task. But I managed.
This is what my afternoon looked like:
JIM: need your help...and one or two word title to a short film or series about an acting school filled with hapless actors doing questionable to terrible theater.
Brandon: hey bro! long time no talk. try BAGHEAD.
Chuck: BAD COMPANY
JIM: not bad mr peck not bad
JIM: Whats up Brandon! How goes? When u coming out to LA?
Chuck: I'll think on it a bit more, beer would help.
JIM: Thats even better! BEER WOULD HELP!
Charlotte: Scool of Ack-ting and Trauma
JIM: Thats not one OR two words!
Charlotte: Ugh...lemme think some more...
Brandon: Entertaining the idea.
Therese: Duh...CREATIVE ACTING.
JIM: Too cose to home...not catchy enough. How are you by the way?
Charlotte: ACKTING School
JIM: Nah
Charlotte: DRAMARAMA DEPARTMENT.
JIM: I like DRAMARAMA.
Therese: Tired of working for a living. How are u?
JIM: Story of my life. I'm fine. Hustlin ass out here.
Charlotte: DRAMARAMATRAUMA.
JIM: You just gonna keep adding words on the end? DRAMARAMATRAUMA YO MAMMA!
Stephen R: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE...or maybe SMALL ACTORS.
JIM: Clever...but too long...SMALL ACTORS is kind of mean.
Stephen: Story of my life.
Charlotte: OBAMA.
JIM: okay...this is getting silly.
Therese: how about SOUND & FURY.
JIM: Nice! I like that one.
Trevor: THE BOARDS.
MIKE B: INTENTION or THE MAGIC "IF"
Simona: AND...SCENE! I like how every bad actor lest people know their scene is over.
JIM: Yeah...I had that one on my list for a while...sounds too much like a board game.
Trevor: BETRAYING PORTRAYING
Andrew: READING LINES
Charlotte: OBAMA's DRAMARAMA TRAUMA MAMA
JIM: Go away.
Andrew: DOING MACBETH
Trevor: PRETENDERS
Ben: ALTERNATIVE ACTING SCHOOL: Jump on the short bus to success.
JIM: Can you come up with something a little longer?
Ben: That was the title and the tag line.
JIM: Cool...thx
Shimmy: HAM SANDWICH, 3-ACT DRAAAMA, GIVE EM THE HOOK.
JIM: Nice, nice, nice.
Seth: PRETENDER POINT.
JIM: Hm? Starring Katie Holmes? Shot in Wilmington, NC and airing on the WB?
Seth: No.
JIM: Oh.
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