Here we are. We just released my last work, a grassroots, independent music video of Brad Standley & The Foxflies' mash-up of "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha and "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes. And we love it. Not only for the end result but because of the journey...
Fred Astaire, Michael Jackson and Roland Petit convinced me in my most tender years that music and dance are two arts that undoubtedly and inevitably go together. And that is why, for my first music-video, I wanted to inspire myself with those big theatrical numbers...
When I first thought of directing my short film, I thought, easy! Just call all your friends who work behind the camera, and promise the shoot will be fun, and with great food at all times. I thought food would pretty much be the only thing I would spend money on. How...
[The] word color itself refers to sensation. … Colors are not properties of surfaces but of human perception. … The whole experience of color is influenced not alone by light energy, which enters the eye from the world beyond, but by subjective factors that arise from...
I trained as an actress in London. At the 2nd round of auditions for RADA, this woman walked into the waiting room and said, out of the blue: "Nobody is waiting for you. No writer or director or producer is thinking, damn, who could we get for this part? All those actors...
Many of you may have already heard of the infamous "Martini Shot". In Hollywood, that term describes the final shot of the day. Wikipedia states that according to Dave Knox (author of the film industry slang guide Strike the Baby and Kill the Blonde) the Martini Shot...
A character’s mind trumps all. As a storyteller, I am always asking, "Why does s/he do this or that?" I do not exist in a linear structured format and my characters do not either. Every element of my films are influenced by why a character takes action. S/he will act...
Hello XX-films! My name is... (download) Click here to download: XX-filmsIntro.mov (4.47 MB) http://www.laurentracyfilm.com - Lauren Tracy -
When you look at the definition of ONER, the Thesaurous says : 1. a single continuous actionThank you Thesaurous for being so breifly clear. Or not.So I decided to shoot my first music video as a single continuous action, in one-take. And that's when people started to...
