Detail-Driven Creative Cohesion!
Read it over here, read it over there: Take a Little Time just picked up its first Best Short WIN…Best Student Short at this season’s Kansas Arthouse Festival lineup, that … Continue Reading WINNER: Best Student Short, Kansas Arthouse Festival
Not to go all LinkedIn here— but I’m INCREDIBLY EXCITED to announce that Take a Little Time has picked up its second award!
Brooklyn, New York, 3/10/2022 – Jake Jurich, Penn State’s Spring 2021 Film Production Student Marshal, has won two prestigious Awards of Merit from the IndieFEST Film Awards. Both awards were given … Continue Reading Rising Filmmaker Splashes Into IndieFEST Film Awards
How much is too much to make off misfortune? Smitty’s never questioned the blind pursuit of profit. He drowns himself in dishes every night because he needs money, as if … Continue Reading Take a Little Time
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
In the Take a Little Time equipment article, I talk about what COVID did and didn’t change in the film equipment policies at Penn State for the Fall 2020 semester … Continue Reading Building a Dolly
From “The Communicator,” Jan. 2021: https://communicator.bellisario.psu.edu/article/student-adapts-leads-team-as-it-completes-film-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic