Unscripted: Writer On Set
This is day two shooting my first short film, Impasse. I have never experienced such a range of emotion watching my words come to life. I can’t wait to share the…
This is day two shooting my first short film, Impasse. I have never experienced such a range of emotion watching my words come to life. I can't wait to share the lessons I've learned in Balls of Steel.
Since pictures say 1000 words, here are some of day one shooting Alice's home scenes, and day two at the coffeehouse.
One immediate lesson I'll share is get an on-set still photographer. PR pics are a must. We have the honor of having Juliana Bellini as ours.
Now back to the shoot...
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is a Senior Executive at Pipeline Media Group and Book Pipeline, Editor-in-Chief of Pipeline Artists, Director of Symposium—a year-round conference in the arts, co-host "Reckless Creatives" podcast, partner at Fringe Press, former Editor-in-Chief of Script magazine and a former Senior Editor at Writer's Digest. Recognized as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers," her "Balls of Steel" column was selected as recommended reading by Universal Writers Program. A compilation of her articles is now available at The Writers Store—Balls of Steel: The Screenwriter's Mindset. She is also Co-Founder and moderator of X's weekly screenwriters’ chat, #Scriptchat, and wrote the narrative adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. More information can be found on her website. X: @jeannevb | IG/Threads: @jeannevb_ | BlueSky: @jeannevb.bsky.social
