John Q. Phats Entertainment

So, I want to shoot some stuff for Nice Guys Finish Last, unfortunately The Plague might take one of our actors from us.  The main actor in the short got the flu.  Luckily there is some stuff we can shoot with Valerie that only requires her.  The greatest thing about owning all of my equipment is that I can pretty much shoot anything with a 3 person crew.  Usually, I actually only need a 2 man crew, but with this short film, I’m shooting with two cameras.  So, I need two camera operators and a boom mic operator.  Sean has become my unofficial boom mic operator.  He’s amazing at not moving and he has big burley boom mic operator arms.  It’s almost like having a wise cracking stand that can move if needed.  What can I say?  He’s good at what he does.  In a perfect world, I would have a five person crew.  Two camera operators, a boom mic operator, a lighting person, and someone that’s telling the camera operators where to go and what to do.  I like to focus on the actors.  Camera work can be fun, but I absolutely hate being a camera operator and director at the same time.  Which I can do, but it sucks.  Usually, I end up with sub par stuff when I do that.  I kind of suck as a camera operator.  I usually end up trying to split my attention between directing and shooting and it never really works.

I’m currently trying to gather up 16 extras for a Nice Guys Finish Last scene this Sunday.  I called pretty much everyone in my phone last night and we’ve been sending out E-Mails to a list that I came up with roughly a week ago.  It’s going to be in Arcadia, California in a restaurant on Sunday from 2-6.  E-Mail me if you’re interested. 
In other news it appears the web site has gotten quite a few visitors recently.  I’ve been getting tons of spam comments.  I wish they were at least amusing spam.  I once got an E-Mail that’s subject was “Destroy her pussy with a bigger love rocket!”  I thought it was hysterical, so I saved it for months.  But no, this is bullshit spam where there is just a BS link to God knows where.  Where the hell is the originality in that?
I want these restaurant scenes to be over with.  I keep stressing about it.  Once these two scenes are done though, I can shoot the rest of the film with a three person crew.  Two camera men and a boom mic operator.  That’s really all I need.  Of course it makes life easier if I have an extra set of hands available to me too, but I can get by with just three crew members.