| Author | Message | ||
     Tom Reingold Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 2591 Registered: 1-2003  |
What ordinance? | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1701 Registered: 12-2001  |
Oh Tom. As restrictive an ordinance as nearly any in the country. In NYC to get a film permit *WHICH IS FREE* you need to carry One Million in general liability insurance. In Mapleberry to get a film permit *which is NOT FREE* you need to carry FIVE MILLION in general Liability. To shoot in the village.. One Thousand dollars a day. On SA 750 any where else 500. Theres is more but thats the best/worst of it. | ||
| Tom Reingold Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 2596 Registered: 1-2003 |
That's amazing! What could the rationale possibly be? Wouldn't we want to encourage filming here? | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1702 Registered: 12-2001 |
One True Thing, a film shot here before your time, took the town to the cleaners. They rebuilt the whole village and caused a staggering amount of problems. As a result the town wrote an ordinance that basically makes it prohibitive for filming to be done in Maplewood. Knee Jerk written all over it. Sad too as I have met quite a few filmmakers here in town and we basically cant shoot here. Legally. As with any ordinance there are loop holes and after a while the inventive filmmaker can find them.  | ||
| Joan Citizen Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 2652 Registered: 5-2001 |
Duncan: I remember the outcry from some Maplewood residents during the filming of One True thing. Merchants on Maplewood Avenue claimed that they lost money and stock because customers were prevented from gaining access to their stores during filming. There were also complaints from people who had to detour around the village and who had problmes parking but there were others who enjoyed the experience. Children in town enjoyed the Halloween carnival which was set up in the middle of village and the vestiges of unseaonable "snow" lasted far beyond the filming of the scenes for which it was created. Friends of mine in the church chorus shown in the film still talk about the exciting experience they had. So, not a sorrowful experience for everyone. Hopefully, the town will revisit this ordinance now that there is some distance between the event and the backlash. | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1704 Registered: 12-2001 |
"So, not a sorrowful experience for everyone." I never meant to imply that. Merely that businesses were really poorly treated, and I completely understand the need to protect that from happening again, but what is in place is, in a word, ridiculous. Whats more, the folks in South Orange treated me with more respect and help than did the people of Maplewood when I went to each muni building to inquire about permits and the like. | ||
| flugermongers Citizen Username: Flugermongers Post Number: 149 Registered: 5-2001 |
I remember a looooong time ago they shot the opening to an SNL sequence here. It was a businessman who was like, taller than everything, and so he walked above the buildings in Maplewood (blue-screened). It was up by Maple Pharmacy and all that where those lovely tops of the buildings are. | ||
| Joan Citizen Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 2655 Registered: 5-2001 |
Was that before or after one of the facades on that street fell down and killed someone? | ||
| flugermongers Citizen Username: Flugermongers Post Number: 150 Registered: 5-2001 |
I don't think that happening was all that long ago. The SNL thing was way back. | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1743 Registered: 12-2001 |
now accepting donations through Paypal for future projects at www.freshwater-films.com Just in case anyone has some disposable income that I could put to use making films. | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1817 Registered: 12-2001 |
Cause on Wed. April 21st I will know if I will have the rights to a script to shoot as my first feature. And let me tell ya I am keeping my fingers crossed. | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1859 Registered: 12-2001 |
YEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Got it. Gonna make my first feature. Script in hand. Now, where can I scratch up 750,000.00 any ideas?? Dont forget the paypal link on the website. www.freshwater-films.com | ||
| Wendyn Citizen Username: Wendyn Post Number: 235 Registered: 9-2002 |
Awesome Duncan!!!!! Got a part for a short, 30-something white woman?  Maybe you can get Fox to finance if you do a reality show of the making of an indi film. But only if you make the actors eat live cockroaches during rehersals. | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1867 Registered: 12-2001 |
nah.. the reality show already exists..its called Project Greenlight. ITs a circus and, to my mind, does more harm than good to the film that is actually being made. As for the part.. sure wanna come to North Carolina next summer for a while? | ||
| Wendyn Citizen Username: Wendyn Post Number: 238 Registered: 9-2002 |
I guess I should have put a sarcastic icon up with my Fox statement... I'm a bit rusty (try 18 years or so) with my acting skills so I'm probably not a good choice. Keep us updated as events unfold! | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1871 Registered: 12-2001 |
of course I will. its all very preliminary right now as the DP and I go over the script and make changes and suggestions. And since the writer is in LA its taking some time. Plus I start rehearsal tomorrow, but its a HUGE adventure and I cannot wait to get down to work on it. | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1932 Registered: 12-2001 |
Have a verbal commitment from our first actor for the above mentioned film. Currently on Broadway in Twentieth Century. Whoo Hoo | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1959 Registered: 12-2001 |
Oh, and I also started rehearsals for a production of "You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water is Running" at the Bickford Theater in Morristown. I will post in arts and entertainment when we get closer | ||
| Duncan Real Name Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 1965 Registered: 12-2001 |
Indigo Girls.. All That We Let In and Patty Griffin..Impossible Dream. WOW. | ||
| Brian O'Leary Citizen Username: Brianoleary Post Number: 1672 Registered: 3-2002 |
Going to see P Griffin at Town Hall on Saturday, May 8. |
