Take a Little Time
How much is too much to make off misfortune?
Take a Little Time – SHOOTING
The Take a Little Time shoot was a blur, but one of such creativity, focus, and joy—I’ll never forget these five days in October 2020. And that was the first … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – SHOOTING
Take a Little Time – POST
We had just wrapped Take a Little Time. In a little over two weeks, shooting would start in a similar, done-in-six-days fashion for Lilly Adams’ Pulling Daisies. Since editor Jared … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – POST
Take a Little Time – Writing
I’ve never written a script with origins as eccentric and organic as Take a Little Time’s. As mentioned in my director’s statement, it all goes back to an August 2019, … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Writing
Take a Little Time – Equipment/Test Shoots
If you’ve been reading through these articles (which, thank you!), you’ve definitely picked up on how large a factor COVID was in the story behind Take a Little Time. The … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Equipment/Test Shoots
Take a Little Time – Casting
There’s two casts of Take a Little Time: Spring 2020 (pre-COVID), and Fall 2020 (mid-COVID). Although Zeke Winitsky and Jake Mayer hold the special title of being on both lists, … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Casting
Take a Little Time – Locations
Take a Little Time’s locations, like almost every other pre-production department, looked one way before COVID and another way after during it. Had we shot it last spring, the biggest … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Locations
Take a Little Time – Art/Set Design, Props
When I was gearing up to shoot Take a Little Time last spring before COVID, the only to-do I had under art/props was “find silverware set; engrave a knife.” I … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Art/Set Design, Props
Pulling Daisies
Pulling Daisies is Lilly Adams’ senior film for COMM 438, the same class I made Take a Little Time in. I served as director of photography, sound designer, composer, and … Continue Reading Pulling Daisies