NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau
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NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau
Tj & Plaideau: Dealing With Failure
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Tj discusses a major failure on a film project and Plaideau discusses a win.
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Welcome to NOLA Film. Scene with TJ and Plato. I'm TJ and, as always, I'm Plato.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene with TJ and Plato. I'm TJ and that is.
Speaker 1:Plato, just call me the Fun Factory.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you are definitely the Fun Factory. We're just doing a short episode this week to bridge the gap. We've had quite a few guests on in the last couple of weeks. We've both been busy with projects and more projects to come. Brian just got involved with a really cool project that we wanted to tell you a little bit about. Brian, why don't you tell them what we're talking about?
Speaker 1:Sure, thank you. Thank you. I can't give you any details yet, but if you follow me on social media, I've been posting all kinds of collages, you know, like different looks, different makeup, just having a lot of fun with it. A little boring, it's fun to post things. So one of them I did, and it had like a lot of my monster makeup and the quote I put on it, the caption director this is going to get weird and me I'm in. Director, this is going to get weird, and me I'm in.
Speaker 1:And so right after that, a director reached out to me. He had been writing a script. We met like last year and he wrote a script with me in mind but was kind of hesitant to let me see it, like okay, cool. And he was inspired by that weirdness and I said, let me read the script. And I did and it's great and it's weird. That's all I can tell you. So it was a real thrill. Auditioning is fun. It's hard, it can get to. You feel dejected a lot, but just somebody reaching out and handing you over a steak you know what I mean that real juicy roll. Just think your teeth into.
Speaker 2:It's really, really cool ah, that is pretty cool and it sounded like, when you're telling me about it offline, that you're gonna have a pretty long time to be able to prep for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And are you able to say what your accent and what you'll be speaking, or is that Not yet?
Speaker 1:I'm going to wait for him to announce it, but I get months to work on an accent I I'm pretty good with mimicry. I've never had a role where I've had to use it and the key will be consistency and this accent I'm already pretty good with. I want to tell you everything, folks, I want to share, but I'm going to be good.
Speaker 2:And you're going to be good and you're going to wait until it's officially out. That makes sense, I mean you got to be careful, right? You don't want to. You don't want to get scratched from a project because you talked about something too soon would I think he's ready to share.
Speaker 1:We're going to do a table read once he gets everyone cast. And then, oh, I said the directors that he did. I give it away no that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:At our level. Sometimes you get an indie director and they're just starting out and they're at different levels and it's good. And then some are better. I know this director has a few movies under his belt. Maybe they're going to already to streaming services, I've been told. I've yet to see. So I have a good amount of confidence in them and I get months to build the character and practice and it's going to be fun. And then, of course, we always talk about the acting. Yes, I'm going to have my stuff planned out, but you have to be ready to live on the scene On the day. You might think I'm going to say it like this, so you know you try not to do that. And oh, the other actor comes up and they're happy. Well, I can't be. You know, you son of a bitch, but maybe I could be. You know what I'm saying. So I'm very excited to really build a character. Usually might have a couple of weeks, you know what I mean. But this long of a process is going to be very interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's. I mean it is good when you've got a good bit of time to prep. I have only used an alternate accent in one project so far. It was a project with Matt Carroll. I had to do an Irish accent and I worked on that, had to learn a monologue, and once I worked on it and picked up the intricacies of that accent, it's kind of like being on a ship. When you come back to shore you still feel your sea legs. For a little while it was kind of the same thing. For a couple of days after the project I still had that accent stuck in my system and I actually listened back to an episode of the podcast that we recorded right after that and I can hear just a little bit of that accent coming out because it was still there around a little bit.
Speaker 2:It was a fun one. I've had to use accents in a couple of auditions. One was a Yiddish accent, and I just wasn't able to pull it off.
Speaker 1:I tried, just couldn't do it. You have the beard for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's pretty true.
Speaker 1:Cool. So what's been going on for you?
Speaker 2:I just wrapped a seven and seven another project with Matt. We had a pretty small cast and no crew to speak of. Matt and I both ran the camera. That was my first time ever trying that. We tried to get different DPs to be involved with the project but people had prior commitments and just couldn't lock anyone down. So Matt said we'll do it ourselves. And we did it ourselves, made some mistakes and you know. We learned from that and move on. Some of the feedback wasn't very positive about it, but that's okay, that's part of the process. Everybody's not going to like everything you do all the time.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You know, it is what it is. We had a good time doing it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And for me trying to learn that stuff being behind the camera. I had a really really I mean I had a lot of screen time too, but I had a really good time being behind the camera trying to figure that stuff out and hopefully next time I'll be able to correct for the stuff that we didn't get right. It is one of those things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's a competition. It's not like you had a lot of time to prepare and gather your equipment. It's you run and gun, you use what you got and you know, I saw it. I thought the acting was great. I know what you're talking about, the problems and the story was great. You just got bit in the butt by the camera buck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was just it was an error with the particular type of camera that we were shooting on In certain low light scenarios. It looked good to us in the moment and after the fact I don't know if it was a rendering error or what. There was just one scene in particular that the image quality was it left a lot to be desired. So we're going to figure that out and get it right next time.
Speaker 1:That's all you can do.
Speaker 2:That is all you can do. What matters is I feel like we put out a really good story. Matt came up with a great story and I think it's an important one to tell right now. Like I said, we kept a small cast and it was fun. I had a really good time on set. There was no drama. We came in, we got to business and we had a week to do it. We shot over three days and then the rest of the time was spent assembling and editing, and you know I enjoy doing those projects.
Speaker 1:And you got it done with one minute to spare, and I mean uploaded to the site for the festival.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was very, very last minute by the time we got the link submitted, but we did make it in under the wire. So the way it works it's like a 48. We've talked about it before on the podcast. With this one you have a week to do it. You get the day that they put out the information, the start day. You get the line of dialogue that you have to use, a prop that has to appear in the film, and that one differs from the 48 because you can pick your genre ahead of time. You don't have to pull it out of a hat like you do for the 48. But the other rules still apply. You can't write before the day of the project, but you can start assembling people that are going to work crew, you can start assembling people that are going to be cast and you can look for locations and assemble equipment. So I don't know, it was fun. I learned a lot and, moving forward, I want to learn a lot more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely, I'm speechless oh.
Speaker 2:I don't. Yeah, actually I do usually have that effect on people.
Speaker 1:It's not you Work and my schedule is caught up to me a little bit. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do. Yeah, so it's been super hot and it's only June and it's going to yeah, it's going to get worse, but we just wanted to do a quick episode to bridge the gap. We have both been really tied up with outside projects and trying to get caught up on editing to get more episodes released.
Speaker 1:And we've spoken to some great guests You'll see over the next few weeks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got some cool ones coming up for sure.
Speaker 1:Not to diss any of our past guests.
Speaker 2:Oh right, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Except that one, but we won't tell you who.
Speaker 2:We won't tell you which one, but they know who they are.
Speaker 1:Thanks for joining us, folks.
Speaker 2:We'll see you next time.
