editorlisa
Hi! I'm Lisa. I work in TV and film as writer, producer & editor. This is my blog about the work I do and the news, trends and technologies that touch it, with the occasional totally unrelated bits thrown in. And although I often post samples of my work all portfolio-like, the content herein is mine, alllll mine, and not presented on behalf of my employer.
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best joke ever.
VIOLET: Knock knock.
ME: Who’s there?
VIOLET: Interrupting Seinfeld.
ME: Interrupting Seinfel-
VIOLET: WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH...
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Not only is my girl Chelsa a total babe, she’s crazy talented with makeup. Check out her step by step spring beauty tutorial with Ann Street...
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Fun day with the very talented photographer Jamie Beck. Want to learn how to get this springy, romantic look at home? Check out her Ann Street Studio
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“You know what’s whack? Sitting in this tomb, day after day…I still want to live. Every day. What’s up with that?”
“Vitamin A deficiency.” -
If you’re thinking we’re in modern times…watch yourself.
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Some photos from our Rectify premiere party!
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Flying solo.
About two months ago I announced that I had been hired for a new job at Quartz. As of last week, I’m no longer there. The reason:...
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Me & @chelsa after reuniting an hour after blast. Very emotional all meeting up again - I was close to 26mi marker (about 1/2 mi from finish line -...
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The Jane Campion mini-series Top of the Lake concludes tonight. If you missed any of it, don’t have Sundance Channel or perhaps have just cut the...
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Beautiful Astrophoto: The Moon and the Milky Way Arch
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With the arrival of spring, the Milky Way begins its rise in the sky in the northern...
“What they said to us when we started this project was ‘what we want is your voice… be as outrageous as you want to… don’t hold back.’ I was like, ‘what’?? It was a very different and provocative education. I think quite clearly independent cinema is struggling. It’s difficult to get people out to the cinemas. And there’s not a lot of art house cinemas around, at least compared to when I started making films. They used to be about where you went to find out about life and have different voices talking to you in an intimate and interesting way. I don’t think that’s really happening now. People are trying to second guess what an audience wants. Occasionally maybe two or three films a year will be truly innovative. But most of them try and second guess the audience.”
Writer Director Jane Campion on TOP OF THE LAKE and the Great Movie-to-TV Migration
A primer for every independent filmmaker. It’s no longer enough to “just make a movie and move onto whatever was next,” as Brian Bedol says. We have to create multimedia, multi-platform experiences around and serve as the billboards for our films.
/Film Interviews Cinematographer Roger Deakins
SlashFilm:: Do you miss film at times?
Roger Deakins:: Am I nostalgic for film?
SlashFilm:: Yeah, exactly. That’s what I–
Roger Deakins:: I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it?
SlashFilm:: [Laughs] Wow.
Roger Deakins:: You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.
I love that the Independent Feature Project – an organization primarily focused on filmmaking, and of which I am a proud member – has launched a regular column about TV writing and production. Further evidence that the lines between creative disciplines are blurring.
Edward Burns on the $9000 - !!! - budget for his latest film, NEWLYWEDS, which he is releasing on VOD and iTunes a month before the film’s small, regional theatrical run. Love this DIY approach, and how he’s using Twitter to include his fans and audience in the filmmaking process.
This is the future, people.
“Science show that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after forty. The baby-versus-work life questions keep the writer up at night. She has observed that women, at least in comedy, are labeled ‘crazy’ after a certain age. The writer has the suspicion that the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore. The fastest remedy for this ‘women are crazy’ situation is for more women to become producers and hire diverse women of various ages.”
Tina Fey speaks my language
![I’m totally coding the web version of this for my own company’s submissions.
thedailywhat:
Rejection Slip of the Day: How the now-defunct Essanay Film Manufacturing Company — home to Charlie Chaplin’s THE TRAMP — rejected screenwriters whose work wasn’t up to snuff.
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I’m totally coding the web version of this for my own company’s submissions.
Rejection Slip of the Day: How the now-defunct Essanay Film Manufacturing Company — home to Charlie Chaplin’s THE TRAMP — rejected screenwriters whose work wasn’t up to snuff.
[via oldhollywood]
(via thedailywhat)
“Look back over the past decade. How many films have approached the moral complexity and sociological density of THE SOPRANOS or THE WIRE? Engaged recent American history with the verve and insight of MAD MEN? Turned indeterminacy and ambiguity into high entertainment with the conviction of LOST? Addressed modern families with the sharp humor and sly warmth of MODERN FAMILY? Look at GLEE, and then try to think of any big-screen teen comedy or musical — or, for that matter, movie set in Ohio — that manages to be so madly satirical with so little mean-spiritedness.”
A.O. Scott, “Are Films Bad, or Is TV Just Better?”
Very smart, considering that alt horror is one of the more interesting & viable independent genres right now.
Brand New Doc Fest Coming to NYC
Filling an extended gaping hole for non-fiction filmmakers and fans that has existed in New York City, a new documentary festival is being launched in downtown Manhattan this fall.
Toronto International Film Festival doc programmer Thom Powers, IFC Center’s John Vanco and Raphaela Neihausen, the new event’s executive director, have unveiled DOC NYC, the first documentary film festival of it’s kind in the city since filmmaker Gary Pollard’s Docfest effectively closed its doors nearly a decade ago. The trio already work together on New York City’s ongoing “Stranger Than Fiction” film series for new docs.
Interesting Washington Post article on today’s Providence Journal Online in which a panel of experts critique movie posters for eight upcoming releases. Distributors still consider the poster a key component of a film’s marketing material, but other than at a theater, how often do audiences actually see them?
Do movie posters still matter in the digital age?
![15 Film Production Credits Explained:
“Ever wonder what all those strange credits are when they roll by at the end of a film? I used to, until I moved to LA, where I started meeting Best Boys and Dolly Grips with their kids when I took my son to the playground — yes, Hollywood, where you meet Gaffers and Armourers at your average Saturday night house party…”
So cool to find an article written by an old friend, David Israel, in my dashboard. Aside from being an interesting topic, I learned he’s now a dad!
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15 Film Production Credits Explained:
“Ever wonder what all those strange credits are when they roll by at the end of a film? I used to, until I moved to LA, where I started meeting Best Boys and Dolly Grips with their kids when I took my son to the playground — yes, Hollywood, where you meet Gaffers and Armourers at your average Saturday night house party…”
So cool to find an article written by an old friend, David Israel, in my dashboard. Aside from being an interesting topic, I learned he’s now a dad!
Following on my last post, please sign the petition if you’d like to see TV and film production remain in New York City.
