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Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"Just be flexible. Okay, we're not going to get these 5 shots. Let's try and do it in two one or like try and do a one or, you know, like, okay, we only have this person, you know, or oh, this person might not feel fully comfortable doing this thing. That's fine. We'll redo it in this way. It's just always trying to be listening to what your crew and cast are telling you. You know, again, this was a small one. There was never more than four people or 5 people, I guess shooting at once. And so it was just keeping it small and not intimate. But, you know, close knit. Right, right, right. If they were feeling uncomfortable or not that anybody did, but if they were feeling uncomfortable or like they thought something, everybody was able to speak up, basically. And harbor and fostering that environment. So it wasn't like a, you know, people didn't feel like they were being forced to do something they didn't want to do. Right, right. Well, you know. That's very important. Definitely. So okay, so we are running a little bit out of time. We don't want to make this too long so people can actually watch it. We want to make sure to ask you one last question, though, okay? Because again, how I mentioned before, you know, there might be people here that are seasoned filmmakers watching, and they might be people that are trying to be filmmakers, maybe they don't know how to get started. You talked about your journey. Everybody's journey is completely different. But at one point, I think we all kind of have something in common, which is our creativity in our drive to make something. And so what advice would you give to an up and coming filmmaker? Or filmmakers? You know, maybe there's a few. I mean, it's so cliche, but it's just like go make something. You know, kind of go make something and be flexible while you're making it. Either go make something like right now, you know, do it, shoot it in a day, by yourself with friends, whatever, shoot it in a day, edit in a day, get it done. If you feel like, you know, you don't have self motivation to do that. Then sign up for the mystery box for next year and do it because that's gonna give you a deadline. And you're gonna be, you know, have more responsibility. So I hate to be the plug for the mystery box, but it's really been super great for the last two years. Oh, we love that. But yeah, it's kind of just make it. Like, you have these ideas of your head to a degree actually to a huge degree. It doesn't matter if they're good when you finish them. You finish them. You learn something, the next one will be better. You know, like it doesn't matter if it's good. There's a lot of crazy dumb things out in the world. Make your crazy dumb thing. That's sort of the that's good. We'll piece of creative inspiration advice I'd say. Some of the stupid, like Johann the thing we did last year, so it's silly. It's dumb. But I like making it. I think it's fun to watch. Sometimes that's enough. I think more than more than me, yeah, but sometimes that's enough too. Yeah, so. Well, that's going to make you better for the next one and it's just going to continue and it doesn't mean that the first one was bad. It just means that you learn something that you can bring to the table. But all right, well that's where I will do a wrap up and then we'll actually have to hold on. Before I do that, thank you, Tony. Thank you for being.
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"But he was a gaffer on a local commercial that we worked on and we worked on a couple of them together. And at some point before the mystery box for this year came about, he's like, you know, what are you going to do in the mystery box? If yes, I want to shoot it. That was just how it came about. And that was in December, January. We talked about it. And we were like, state separate forever. And just talked about a via Zoom, and then it's like, oh, we gotta meet. So we eventually became it came into each other's pods as we prep the film. And then shot it in January. Well, February, really. And it was fantastic to work with cinematographer. And really a full on collaborator because I did the script. I showed it to him. He's like, great. And then we shot it, and then there was editing and color that we went back and forth with. It was a true collaborative process. And we've been making stuff since January. We shot a short documentary on a local actor who we're editing right now. We shot a short film in like four hours a month ago that we put together and just shot it, you know, put it. So we're constantly making stuff and it's like ignited a level of collaboration with a fellow filmmaker who has more experience than me, but it's still willing to collaborate on my same level. And I feel like we both make each other better because we have different skill sets and we're thinking about different things. So that was the thing that came with this. Additionally, we worked with an actor named Nathan's, who's also a local actor. And there was all this improvisation that came along with it. So I wrote a very tight script, not super tight because it was 13 pages that need to be ten minutes. But there was a ton of improvisation that happened with him because we wanted the character to be very flowing..
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"And I feel like I feel like I hear directors who have like $150 million budgets to say that's the case too. So that's something that you're just not going to you're not going to escape, you know? Yeah, no. I mean, having an obstacle, I think this was going to make your next film better. Because then you're going to learn about what you're doing right now and how you can make it better. I mean, you touched on quite a few things that were perfect. As far as you have to have a good relationship with the actors, you have to have a good relationship with even if they're your Friends. You need to make sure they're going to show up. You know, they're going to show up to make the film digging show up to help you out. Because a lot of times, you know, we're making we're making projects and we're not paying people. You know, we're giving them lunch. You know, we're giving them a little bit of that. So you have to have that relationship. So basically on that is that difference between excited friends and reliable friends. Correct. Correct. But no, no, you're right. I think that's the biggest obstacle. You know, just being able to know that, you know, you have a passion for something. You want to do it and following through is going to be the biggest, you know, because anything can happen in between. But to give that, we have a question right from the audience. And let's touch on that just to kind of make it a little bit different. Because I do want to talk about the next film that you did after this and just because I want to show it at the end of this stream where people get to see the one that you did after. So Kyle Santos actually just said he will shoot for coffee and a bagel. So pretty much people are willing and they're ready to go. It happens. Very important. If you take anything away, feeding people's very important. So we have a question that says Tony, who are you three directors who have influenced you the most? It changes throughout the years. But right now it's like, well, it used to be like George Lucas and Peter Jackson and there's still very much the top. But right now, it's Taika Waititi of Thor: Ragnarok and What We Do in the Shadows and boy. And for the world of people, he's like my favorite director right now just because he has this weird bonkers, you know, personality that is and flavor that's infused in his work. I love Michelle goundry work, eternal sunshine is spotless mind is amazing in one of my favorite films of all time. And then Christopher Nolan so like, yes, I'm kind of basic in that sense of Christopher Nolan, the director's director, basically. Everybody likes Christopher Nolan. But the prestige is one of my favorite films of all time..
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"So it's like, you know, that's just evolving process. Everything's always moving and it can be very hectic. And I have this term that lose laughs at me about, but you do fly by the seat of your pants a little bit. Even as much as you plan, so but if you plan more than you're able to find fun little things to change and evolve on. Yeah. As you're making the things which is exciting. Yeah, I'm very familiar with Tony's the restaurant film and I think if anyone was watching here, it's like, okay, it's kind of like, how did you find your classic? I know there's a lot of people here who make films that are like, how am I going to find an actor? Oh, am I going to find crew? What were your tools that you used to find your cast of crew? Was it like, I just know people where did you like maybe go to like maybe the silly film office and look for people? Because that's sometimes the hardest part, you know, trying to find the right people. And in your finding room members as well. That crew is so small. It was like two people. It was loose who I made. And then me who I did the camera. I actually love that, but it is necessary to do have more people for bigger scale projects. As far as casting, we worked with both actors previously me and lose. So I kind of knew I was like, this part is sort of your personality. I said, went to both actors and was like, you know, would you want to do it? And I tried to make it with parts that I know for local actors or people I know it's like trying to write the part a little bit to what their personality is already that way they don't have to do much acting. And there's less workshopping on the day. So that's kind of how that happened. I have never done a full scale rehearsal. Rehearsal process, but casting process where it's like, okay, we have these ten people. They're going to come in and read. I'm going to read with them. We'll evaluate. We'll talk about the part. I've never done a full casting process like that because everybody has been kind of a, oh, you're a great person. Let's work together. Type of aspect. So it's like, oh, I'm writing this next project. I think you'd be good, great for it. And that's how everything is involved. But I would eventually love to do a full casting process and reach out, you know, whether it's in our area or the Philly film office of like, is there any actors or even on backstage? I haven't done that yet. I've worked with a friend who my friend Spencer who made a short film in the philia and he did that process..
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"It's for anyone who loves to make films. This is a great catalyst that someone wants to even get started in filmmaking. Or if you're a professionally, you want to do something fun and creative. It's a great challenge to get involved and we're on film three way now. All the dates are there. And we're going to kick off the challenge this year for 2022 on September 1st. Yes, yes. We're actually getting ready for that. We're going to do a nice little promo for you guys. So you can see what this year's box has. But we'll backtrack to the film that you did for the mystery box. And we'll focus on that a little bit just to see, I know you already talked about it. But for that particular one, how do you go from the design aspect to start a film? Now, I know that the mister box was a challenge, right? So tell us more about the process there that you had to do. From the beginning of starting to write something. What was the biggest challenge? I guess. Right. The mystery box last year was great, 'cause again, it's perfect because I said it was a catalyst to get you to make something. So you're like, oh, I'm busy and I don't have, you know, I have all these excuses but then it's like, no, there's a deadline. Here's the things. Just do it. And the personalities of the filmmakers get into it too, you know, in terms of it's also great because it's like all different ranges. You know, somebody was making their first film, or their 50th film, you know, like there's a range of people. But the person who made the first film that film might have more heart. So I had it made a film in like two years, and then last year, that came along. I was like, I'm doing the mystery box and this is like, okay, but you got to finish it..
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"Tell us a little bit about that. I mean, maybe someone out there is watching and saying, you know what? I want to do this. I want to be involved in filmmaking. I want to be involved in the sign. But I don't know how. So let's give them a little bit of that and what you felt when you were going through that process. Yeah, it was good because in order to get into the program, I clicked down. You needed to do an art test, which lose healthy with. Just was great at critiquing and being like, you know, running ideas and comps and concepts. So you had to do an art test of three projects to get in. And they had to just have to be executed while or drawn well or painted. Well, it had to have an idea behind it. So that was one of the first notions of its visuals with ideas that tell a story that communicate, which is basically all that design is. It's visualist communicating. So it's all about communication. And then that very much leads into storytelling. So when I got to put sound, it was like, I started to do the early intro drawing and 3D design courses and understanding like, okay, it's always about thinking about the details and the big picture in the concept and what you're trying to say with this piece of art, this visual. So that was four years of that and figure out how to just continue to refine the technical skills and your concept skills. So it was that sort of constantly getting better, which I love. As long as you're trying to always improve your skill sets, the quantity of stuff isn't necessarily important. The quality is, but sometimes doing a lot of it and having a large quantity gets you to the quality aspect. So just making stuff and learning new things and learning new techniques is massively important and trying things and seeing what sticks against the law and seeing, oh, maybe this didn't work, but I learned this one little.
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"And then just a process how you got started with the design part in your evolution when it comes to being an artist. Yeah, I feel like Tony and I are kind of like the same. We're both graphic designers and your work is very impressive..
Scranton Talks
"susi" Discussed on Scranton Talks
"It is full of inspirational and formative and fun talks with other filmmakers about their projects and their journeys, Scranton talks is part of the independent film creative hub, based in Scranton Pennsylvania with hosts loose cabrales and myself does raise linsky, who founded the independent film creative hub, which is geared to help filmmakers for each other potential in becoming successful creative artists and I'm so happy. You can join us for another episode. So we just came off of filming my mystery box film challenge film luce and I and we had Danielle come up from Philly. We filmed on Halloween in nao park and Scranton, so that was pretty fun, dodging all the down, pores, and it was chilly. But we got the film shot and I'm in the process of editing my short film to the mystery box film challenge, which it's winding down pretty closely as I'm recording this podcast. We're in November already, which is crazy. So the mystery box film challenge if you're participating is winding down shortly. They have the regular deadline on November 10th in the late deadline November 30th. But for this episode of Scranton talks podcast, luce and I sat down with filmmaker and director Tony Susie. Tony is an art director, designer and filmmaker making funky projects of all shapes and sizes. His most recent films include the restaurant which won best of show for the 2020 mystery box film challenge in Johann a retrospective by Todd klemp, which both can be seen on the mystery box YouTube channel. Tony's kind of in my realm where I'm actually have a background in graphic design first, and then got into filmmaking later. So luce and I had a wonderful time talking with Tony about his journey into filmmaking and kind of the overlaps between him being in art director designer and filmmaker. So I hope you enjoyed this episode. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us. My name is Luz cabrales and on the cofounder of the independent film creative hub as well as Scranton films. Hi, everyone. My name is Denise Reyes Leslie. I'm also the cofounder of the independent film creative cloud. I also run the film society, a local filmmaking community here in northeast Pennsylvania. And I'm also the organizer of the mystery box film channel. We're very excited to be bringing you Scranton tasks or social media platforms and actually for the first first time live on air on easy TV channel 19. We will be announcing more content soon and we invite all creators around the area to reach out to the SRA and I through our independent creative hub, because we want to grow the creative and filmmaking industry in our beautiful and thriving area. And easy TV has given us a platform to make this happen. So we're going to work very hard in the next few months or years, whatever it takes to just bring that bring that filmmaking industry here because we know that it's already here. We have a lot of talented talented filmmakers and creatives, but this is our time. So our lead desire introduce our guest for today. Yeah, for tonight's grand talk we have Tony Susie here with us. Welcome Tony. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks so much for having me. It's super exciting..
The Podcast On Podcasting
"susi" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"Can do it. I don't work on movie. But i hear people do work on it. I think it's clunky or working on something on a professional level like premiere pro. I think is if you could learn that. It's not that hard. I promise you. I can do it. You can do it. And you can edit everything in one space their audio. You can edit audio there if you want. Get fancy it ties into what's called audition. So they have their own audio software that ties into premier. i don't use audition. I used it for the first time because we had a musical version of an episode. So we have some songs. So i did edit some of the songs because i could separate the tracks a little bit easier in addition and manipulate them but i still brought them into premier. So you can do it. And it's not that hard and then you can. I would say if you're going to do that for me. The biggest thing i learned was organization like organize in your files making sure you keep it end back up. Drives like external drives for your storage. Because i was killing my computers. I couldn't keep up with the storage. So now i have external storage and that's key. You gotta have that right adam. I mean you have to have one hundred percent all about that. Speaking of i just said it again. Let's move directions. Sharman matter mischarging on this charming. I want if you are listening. We've got a podcast called love conquers all. That's al z. For alzheimer's and suzy singer carter is the host of that show and it has strong y behind the why how come she's actually publishing this podcast. So i'm just asking you a favor if you're listening just to go and check out that podcast love conquers all and see if you can leave an honest like rating and review doesn't have to be five star just an honest rating and review. Whatever you think of the show letter. No i know she's trying to accomplish something important through that podcast and they've got another podcast coming out. I think it's called. I love lucifer little play on. I love lucy but lucifer and so you'll be able to find that it should be out by the time. This episode is airing because they're literally publishing as we're speaking so you should be able to find that right away. Both links are already in the show notes and just to wrap it up number one. Susi singer carter. I appreciate you being part of this. Podcast being honest and transparent. Invulnerable about what you've done what you've learned what you know what you don't know your experience. I love just that it's overarching. Overlying underlying overarching. I don't know what term i should be using their. It's what i want to say. Is that even though we never directly spoke about this on our podcast today being yourself being okay with being authentic with making mistakes and learning as you go is something that i think that the listener could pull out of this episode as well and if you are looking for example marketing. Your podcast is a key. It's a key to your success so if you find like the marketing being a daunting task if you want people to find you and know who you are. My team helps with that. My team does post production and we also do the marketing to help. Get you in front of the right amount of people. So if you're interested if you're listening to this and you're thinking okay. Maybe i ought to market my podcast. Go to grow your show dot com. This is my company. You can schedule a call to just chat with me..
MyTalk 107.1
"susi" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Yeah, that's an actual wax eater. Yeah, you know, I'm the back sack and crack. I brought it up to my wife that I wouldn't mind something like that. And she thought I was crazy. Yeah. You wouldn't mind. Mind if she didn't You know, clean things up. You're okay. Because you're Italian. Yeah, I'm just gonna recover for no good slurry is giving you a look. Well, I'm glad we brought this up. Well, okay, so I think everyone is. You have no idea you would be out of there faster than you could say, wax strip. When they tell you to do this. I assume the position I don't see you following through record. All of a sudden, I see your Your your sense you Rocco sensibility you're going. You know what? I don't need to work Stripped back there. It seems like it's gonna hurt. What if they gave you the laughing gas or something matter, Draco know that would help. Lori would have to say that would help I I decided at a certain age to disco laser on and then, um And then I'm thinking Do I want to spend it down there? I don't want to spend on my face, right? Exactly. My mom worried about the years, right? Thank you Got the whiskers? So it's it's different, but I, but then, at a certain point in time, I thought I don't want to keep get a bikini. Wet says, Doesn't that stretch the skin and you know, you start thinking about those other things Kids skin getting hold. Hole, but that's so funny Rocker. I love that. You brought that up. I do like it. We're going. We're going to say no, no to the back That is saying give in on this one and your wife. It's up to you to in your relationship, but she kind of said with, Lori said. She's like you would not. It's horribly be. It's like you're kind of just being you're just having a brave Man moment moment that you don't mean we're gonna take this off the table now, right? You really don't mean it. I don't wave heroin that you don't mean No. It sure? Yeah, well, those those happen, um, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills there could Jane and Thomas Girardi default on property taxes on their home as trustees search for their hidden million's. Oh, $32,000 in property taxes they're trying to figure or the money is. He has an involuntary bankruptcy happening at his law. Lord Erica is not yet bankrupt, but she's got people suing her. He does. Yeah, the only non bankrupt defendant his Erica Jane. Well, for the fact that money she has his ill gotten gains from orphans and plain victimsfamilies. Strictly crash. How about the other? That plane went down again? And Jakarta? Yeah, I would not fly out of that airport for the love of God. Yeah, that's the second plane and four years no Anyway, so That's why she's in a rental and condo canyon in Beverly Hill. This is interesting. I'm going to see she's posted any more naked shots herself on Instagram for her Twitter. It's the strangest Pierre advice that he doing. He needs to go dark right now. And no Andy Cohen, you know they filmed the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the re union. Oh, it's already been done. It's It's been filmed and done, and he on his instagram stories. He? It's though one of the longest reunions they've ever done, he I think, he said. It's the longest re union we've ever done for even a first season show. Our starting out Like dying in the morning. There was so filming at that inn last night, Megan McCain was on watch What happens, live with her body. See Jacob Essy cop and they are you know, Housewives and Bravo, Dear. But they said the formula that they put together for Salt Lake is so brilliant. It is so Expecto how the show Woz before we got to know the people, maybe. Or maybe before the people got to know each other. Yeah, I don't know. Once a seed like we'll be. It'll be interesting to see if you know if there's who leaves salt like city and who they replaced them with its when the Originals get replaced that sometimes it feels like a kidz like they're looking casting for certain right? That's on tonight. Isn't that something to look forward to? I think Wednesday. I can't remember it. Susi Air Wednesday but both Orange County and Salt Lake or both, Okay, maybe it is tonight. I think it is tonight. If it is, I promise. I watch it, everybody, Gensia. This woman Rocco, if you could, even when you described it last week, Laurie because I haven't watched it yet about her necklace because she wears this huge, missed just this, like wonder woman bracelet around her neck. It does look like her head was attached to someone else's body. She's funny looking in that in that solution. She really is, and she's scary, and she seems to ranged. I think she really seems off. She does and that she would have a birthday party for her husband and she's what is she? Like? 45 46. I can tell she could be 65 or 80, right? You can't tell because there's so much goop in their faces these days. So who knows how old she is, and she's wearing Beyonce's Super Bowl? Black leather. I'm short jacket with pantyhose and a body suit. And I thought, How old are you? And why would you think that even look good. I mean, good for you, but Whoa, there was nothing good about that. I was like I was in a sweat. I was happy to see it. I'm like, Where is your friend? All right? Yeah. You made a mom at? Yeah, I know When we come back. We've got a lot to Hollywood speak, including What does this mean? Liking this tweet? Have you heard Donna and Steve lately?.
Morning Edition
White House Is Not Contact Tracing 'Super-Spreader' Trump
"House doesn't appear to be doing contact tracing of President Trump, who has cove it or of people in his circle, despite the fact that we've heard public officials say repeatedly if you want to beat Corona virus. You test you trace, then you isolate and despite the fact that at least 12 people who are in the president's inner circle have also tested positive. Susie Welty of the University of California San Francisco has been working with public health officials on contact tracing. She's here, Teo, give us a little bit of more information on what should be happening. Thanks so much, Susi. Good morning, Noelle. And in a normal situation, the public health lab, the county here, local health jurisdiction would get those lab results directly and call. Each of those cases do something. What's called Kate Case investigation, talk to them about the symptoms, but then also asked who they've been in contact with the 48 hours preceding their symptoms. That's their infectious period. They would gather information about people who have been within 6 ft for more than 15 minutes, and that doesn't have to be consecutive And in some jurisdictions, it's irrespective of math, wearing So we would gather that information. And then the contact traces would call all of those close contacts. In this case, Obviously, it's across many jurisdictions. They didn't get tested in labs that would go get reported to county labs. So the county here DC Metropolitan would not have access to their lab results. Really the local health jurisdictions are operating in the dark here without information about cases that have tested positive either in their jurisdictions or have been in a jurisdiction since they were testing positive. All right. You're drawing an interesting distinction there, Which is that normally local officials handle this. The White House would seem to be its own separate entity, just given the nature of what the White House's but in an ideal world with the White House, be providing this information to public health officials here in Washington, D. C. Definitely, you know the people that work in the White House who have been exposed. Our most likely D C. Residents are residents, some jurisdiction nearby. And you know many of the people that were attending the press secretary, others their citizens and You know part of that community so they should die. I would think that the local health restrictions should be involved with contact tracing because it's it's more than just the way hospitable people even go home to their families. And, you know, go out to restaurants and other things. The White House is reportedly emailing people who came in contact with the president and others in his circle who are infected. Is that a good step? It's more than nothing. I mean, it's informing people but I think you know the the essence of contact tracing and the reason that we've been kind of slowed up take technology is that you're willing to make that connection. You really need to explain to someone what this means. You need to help them understand why quarantine is important. So anyone who was in close contact with the president should be in quarantine for 14 days if there were any other Citizen. That's what would be expected of them, according to the CDC guidelines, because we know they can the incubation period of 14 days so they could test positive anytime from 14 days from their exposure. So when I'm calling people in San Francisco, you know even if they test negative back, tell them you still have to stay home for 14 days because you could test positive at any point. And the infection in that period between when your last negative test is when you're positive. You're next positive. One is