Steven Spielberg knew what it took to be successful and he did it with nothing stopping him. Did you ever hear the story that when Steven Spielberg started out? He slept on a studio lot and would go down to the film sets and eat the craft services and watch people make movies. It’s a little …
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Well, my mentor, Jim Kelly Durgin told me that in the 80s, a major studio had to cancel two productions because they could not find a great script supervisor. Jim was actually hired many times by big-budget productions to training someone they wanted to script-supervise. He was a legend before he passed away. He had trained …
I have plans to do much more thanjust script supervising,I also want to produce.I’m going to breakthis down the same way I did when I directed plays. I directed about seven mostly classical playsafter college, so I have an idea of how to do plays.This is actually a movie I am attempting toproduceandI’ll tell you …
When I was growing up, we didn’t have a lot of money, and to be honest, there were sometimes gunshots every night as I would go to bed. Things are different now, even though I’m not rich by any stretch of the imagination. It’s taken about seven years of script supervising, but I finally made …
I’ve had a few people ask me how I managed to get to where I am and how I got a lot of work and stuff. I have a marketing background, so I understood that one of the main rules of marketing outflow equals inflow. When I first started, I was getting more work than …
Hi! Charese here with another series of videos. This time the topic is about “Script Supervisor”. I have been in the industry for a long time now and I have done Production & Direction. In the beginning days I had no idea what a Script Supervisor does. But I was blessed with a mentor as …
Everyone wants to make it to Hollywood at some point in their lives. Whether they want to visit all the attractions or try their luck living there, Hollywood has a pull that is undeniable. As the center of filmmaking, people like Hollywood. CHARESE MONGIELLO’S NEW BOOK “A NEW SLANT ON ACTING” talks about Filmmaking And …
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in film and television in Hollywood? A few years ago I found a way to book two jobs a month as a script supervisor. Instead of telling all my friends individually what I did I created a wonderful seminar and now a class to …
So, a few years ago I was driving my car and the brakes stopped working. I had never experienced anything like that before, so I had no idea that amongst other routine things, your car needs to have the brake fluid topped. So, I called my dad and he explained about the brake fluid and …
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Content is Key Hi guys, so a lot of you guys may know me that I’ve been in the entertainment industry for a while now. I’ve produced scripts, supervised, directed, written all kinds of stuff in the film industry. And one of the things I see about the new content that people are making that …
