production blog

Fun and Games: Behind the Scenes of The Playroom

It’s December, 1975. I am watching PBS’s “The Electric Company” on our RCA console television and wishing that Santa would bring me a Holly Hobbie doll and some Lincoln Logs. I wanted to say that back in the day, we played with real toys, not virtual ones. But Atari released “Pong” that Christmas season and sold $40 mil in video games. It’s no Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, but it’s also no Pet Rock. (Oh yeah, the Pet Rock people sold 5 million of those stupid things in 1975.)

I like to think that the 70s and 80s were the best time to be a kid.

It’s December, 1975. I am watching PBS’s “The Electric Company” on our RCA console television and wishing that Santa would bring me a Holly Hobbie doll and some Lincoln Logs. I wanted to say that back in the day, we played with real toys, not virtual ones. But Atari released “Pong” that Christmas season and sold $40 mil in video games. It’s no Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, but it’s also no Pet Rock. (Oh yeah, the Pet Rock people sold 5 million of those stupid things in 1975.)

I like to think that the 70s and 80s were the best time to be a kid. (more…)

The Shot List

I did something recently that I rarely get to do. I saw a movie in a movie theater! It was The Beaver – the Kyle Killen scripted feature that was directed by Jodie Foster and stars the uber-troubled Mel Gibson. Don’t send me hate mail, I was attempting to support Killen, a young Texas writer/producer, and was very curious to see how the top script from the 2008 Black List – Hollywood’s Hottest Unproduced Scripts – translated to the screen. It wasn’t bad. Gibson as a troubled man who uses a hand puppet to communicate was easy to believe, for what it’s worth.

By Angie Meyer, Producer of The Playroom

When scheduling a low budget movie like The Playroom, you have real restrictions on the amount of time you can spend on each scene. Capitalizing on every minute – from lighting to prop resets to the number of times you move the camera – is key to achieving the highest production value AND allowing the actors the maximum time possible to hone their performances. (more…)