Miles Underwater – Day fourteen – #ChooseHope – July 18th

by Colette Freedman | Jul 18, 2018 | Writing

#choosehope is our hashtag   This entire film experience has been about hope: Leaping and hoping that the net will appear. Giving out call times and hoping that we will make our days. Hope that an entire cast and crew will be inspired enough by this story to...

Miles Underwater – Day thirteen – Bridges – July 16th

by Colette Freedman | Jul 17, 2018 | Films, Miles Underwater, Poetry

Today, we spent the day on bridges. There are bridges in Miles Underwater. Why wouldn’t there be… it is a film with the word underwater in the title. And we are shooting in San Antonio, which is a city filled with a lot of water and a lot of bridges....

Miles Underwater – Day twelve – Schlitterbahn – July 15th

by Colette Freedman | Jul 16, 2018 | Miles Underwater, Writing

While our producers worked their Tuchuses off scouting locations & prepping for the second 1/2 of our shoot, our cast went to Schlitterban – Texas’s biggest waterpark. We have two days off in our fifteen days of filming. Today was our second day off....

Miles Underwater – Day eleven – Black Panther – July 14th

by Colette Freedman | Jul 15, 2018 | Acting, Films, Miles Underwater

It does not matter if you are shooting Black Panther or Miles Underwater: In filmmaking, there are three stages of production: Pre-production: Planning, scripting & storyboarding, etc. Production: The actual shooting/recording. Post-production: Everything between...

Miles Underwater – Day ten – The 4 pillars – July 14th

by Colette Freedman | Jul 14, 2018 | Acting, Miles Underwater, Writing

Today’s four pillars. There were too many moments of general happiness today on set to narrow down in tonight’s blog: To have a singular voice. To share something profound or inspirational which four people diligently read (thank you Doug Purdy, Mom,...