The Good Samaritan is coming together

Hello All,

I hope that the beginning of the year is treating everyone well. I thought it might be about time to send out another update on the progress of The Good Samaritan. So here we go.

Just this week our Composer, the wonderfully talented Brian Satterwhite, completed the score for the film. It is absolutely beautiful, it helps set the tone of the film perfectly and bring insight to the characters and story. I am very pleased with it. As each piece has come together on our little film it has been building towards becoming a full fledge movie and when the music went in, for me it did exactly as I’d hoped. It brought everything together and made it one cohesive piece. I’m proud to call this my film.

Now, our Sound Mixer, Gopal, is adding the finishing touches on the sound mix and mixing in the music so very soon we will have all the audio aspects complete. Yea!

Then we move into the final steps of color correction and finalizing the titles and end credits and then we will be done with Post Production. I look forward to that day but I will miss it as well.

If all goes according to schedule we will just make our first film festival deadline and then a whole new adventure begins.

Jason Newman and The Good Samaritan Crew

For more information about The Good Samaritan please check out our website: www.my-productions.com

Happy 2012!

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and I hope that this year is a good one for everyone. Let's make it a great one!

Officially The Good Samaritan is in Post Production

Hello All,

Just thought I'd send out an update for all our followers of The Good Samaritan short film. The film is now officially in the middle of Post production. Jon Lindgren, an awesome editor and good friend, did a wonderful job cutting together our first rough cut. Then he handed it over to me and I've been putting my mark on it. I think we're getting very close to picture lock. Today Elizabeth and I met with a guy that will be doing our titles for the opening and end credits. It was a ton of fun sitting talking about all the different ways we can make an impression with the titles. I am very excited to see how they turn out.

I hope that everyone has visited our new website and is enjoying our the new desgin. I think its pretty spiffy if I don't say so myself. Anyway, I'll keep you posted as we move a long through post. Please keep checking here or our website blog for more updates.

The Good Samaritan's Kickstarter Campaign - please pledge!

It has begun and we really need your help. We've just launched our very first fundraiser on Kickstarter, an awesome website that helps artists find supporters for their unique art. I've wanted to try it out for a long time and this was the perfect project to try with. I am very excited to give it a shot.

Most of you who come to this blog know how much I love film and making movies. That it's a true passion of mine. You also know it's been a while since I've made a short. But that isn't to say I haven't been dreaming of getting back behind the camera everyday. Writing has had to take a front seat and though I love writing my really deep down passion is directing, being on set under pressure, working with my actors, and capturing it all on film, that's when I feel most a home.

So, with all that said I'd like to ask you to please help. I'm not very good at asking so you'll have to excuse the lack of finesse here. This is your chance to be apart of something very special and only you can help. It's pretty easy, either you can pledge, any amount will make a difference and/or you can re-post the link below on your twitter / facebook / website / groups etc. or email it out to family, friends, co-worker, cellmate -  anyone you can think of, because the name of the game is get the word out. Someone you might not think would be interested might just secretly wish he or she could be apart of the filmmaking process.

I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart and Alice thanks you. Click on the link below and it will send you straight to the funding page where you can learn more about the project and help make this project a reality.

The Good Samaritan Campaign

Introducing The Good Samaritan's Cast

And we're off. I am excited to announce we have completed casting for The Good Samaritan short film. Please allow me to introduce to you our two leads.

Mikaela Krantz as Alice

Jason Newman as Nick

They are both wonderful talents and I am so happy to have them on our project. I look forward to collaborating with them both.

Remember to check back there will be more announcements to come and the launch of the Kickstarter campaign.

Okay that's all for today.

The Good Samaritan Announcements

On Wed. we shot the funding video for The Good Samaritan's Kickstarter Campaign, which will launch in a few days, it was tons of fun, Mikaela did an awesome job and Alice has been born. The video will be posted here, on Kickstarter, and later on our company website. So check it out when you can.

Production dates locked, crewing up and scouting locations, things are moving along pretty nicely. I think other then being on set directing this time in pre-production is one of my favorites.

Okay, I think that's it. Oh remember to check back soon there will be another announcement - Our cast!

See you soon.

The Casting Call

One of my favorite parts of being a director is working with actors. When I start the casting process I actually get pretty excited for the casting calls. I know most times it's hell for an actor. But I do my very best to make it fun and relaxed for all of us. To give us a chance to play. The amazing thing about casting calls is the great opportunity to see so many different fresh perspective of the characters. I've walked away from many casting session being totally blown away at the new insight I found by just playing around with an audition. Sometimes with just an added adjustment whamooo we've created a whole new angle for a character or molded an outragously funny performance. It can be such a creative experience and many times it's out of those moments I find just the right person for the role. In my opinion, there's nothing that can really replace that first one on one moment with an actor and the material.

Here we go again...

Great news! The Good Samaritan is moving in to preproduction. We're holding a casting call this weekend which I'm very excited about. Looks like we've got some real talent coming in. After that we'll be launching our very first Kickstarter Campaign. We have most of the money we need to move forward but there is that little bit more that will take us from good short to great short. So, keep an eye out and help us achieve great.

If all goes according to plan, we'll shot for two days at the end of Oct or early Nov. - Let's hope this heat will break because the short takes place primarily outside. Another reason to wait until Oct / Nov to shoot - and post-production will take us through to Decemeber. So, by January 1 we should have a completed short ready to hit the festival and online markets.

I'd like to take a second to thank everyone that has helped us get to this place. To those that helped with the script to those that have jumped on board to get this thing made. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I look forward to sharing the process here with all of you. Check back next week.