Welcome to "Dogs are a Woman's best Friend" a web Dramedy

Hi and welcome to "Dogs are a Woman's best Friend" a webseries about Jamal, a man who is ready to settle down. He's trired of the dating scene and wants to meet that Mrs. Right. In comes Jasmin. Jasmin is everything that Jamal wants. Smart, Sexy, Educated a true lady, but there's one thing that's standing in Jamal's way......


This will be an ongoing blog of my new web series. From pre to post production and everything ugly in between. I aim to educate the reader on the process of self producing a web series on a shoe string budget and under the SAG New Media contract. The shoot will take a total of two days, Please Oh Please let this be the case lol.Let's kick this off with what I have so far:

I'm trying to stay under a $1500.00 budget which I believe I can do.   My pilot only calls for 3 different locations in which a friend of mines apartment has most of the scenes taking place. In producing this under the SAG New Media agreement, my actors are going to be $100/day deferred. As an actor, they pay doesn't really bother me as long as it's a quality production. Being on a shoestring budget, does not mean the final result looking as if it were filmed on a 1980's VHS camera. I do wanna give a shout out to Brandi Ford Brandi's Website for helping me out with some questions I had as she has just finished her very first webseries pilot episode.


10/11/2010 - Submitted preliminary Information sheet to SAG. I am not that familiar with a line budget, but I did enough research to learn what goes above the line as well as below.  Be aware that you have to follow up within 48 hrs to confirm that they have received you worksheet, Line budget, Script and ID. I also called a prospective location I would like to shoot a couple scenes here in Van Nuys. I need a office. The lady tells me $250 for 4 hours and I will need to have a certificate of Insurance(Whatever that is) and a $250 Cash Deposit which I will get back at the end of the shoot day. Emailed my prospective DP, told him I will give him a call Wednesday. Locked down my casting date and facilities for 10/28/2010, Thanks Cazt www.cazt.com you really provide a invaluable service to the acting community!!! I'm really looking forward to the casting session, it's gonna be nice to be able to sit on the other side of the table for once MUHAHAHAH!!!


10/12/2010 - Made some revisions to my script, Ugh.... I have to format this a lot better. Started story-boarding, this is a lot harder than I expected. I also came to the realization that I really don't have any industry friends. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I've always been a firm believer in if I don't know how to do something, I will teach myself to do it. I'm definitely going to shop around for an editor now.

10/13/2010 - Called SAG this morning and was told that I have been assigned a Rep and she will give me a call in the next few days. I'm excited and nervous at the sane time. I'm not sure how many SAG actors you have to use in your production as that was one of the questions on the preliminary. It's a relatively small cast of only 7, and as far as the crew goes the DP I have my eye on also has his own lighting equipment which means I will probably have to find a sound guy. My lovely wife did a lot of P.A., producer, etc work in the Philippines (Which has a major Film/TV market itself) where she is from, so she's really going to help me out a lot and wear many different hats on this production as well. Andrew from Backstage West saw a post I had made on the message board there and asked if I wanted to comment on actors using the New Media approach to obtaining their SAG/SAG-E status. Looking at what types of food I want to cater. Big Mamas and Papas Pizza has really good prices, everyone loves Pizza, wings, pasta and salad!!!!