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Interview with Julia Stiles "Blue"
and "Paloma" on WIGS 3/15/13
Final Transcript
FBC PUBLICITY: The WIGS Conference Call
March 15, 2013/9:30 PDT
PRESENTATION
Moderator: Welcome to The WIGS Conference Call. At this time
all participants are in listen-only mode. Later, we will
conduct a question and answer session. I would like to
remind you that this conference is being recorded. I would
now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Michelle Marron.
Also, this conference is on behalf of Blue.
Michelle: Hi, everybody; thank you again for taking part in
the conference call this morning with Julia on behalf of
Series Blue and Paloma on WIGS the number one channel for
scripted drama on YouTube. As you know, Season II of Blue,
which stars Julia as a single mother trying to protect her
son from the consequences of a secret career as an upscale
escort, premiered first thing this morning. New episodes are
going to be made available on the channel the next three
consecutive Fridays.
In addition to Blue, Julia will be able to answer questions
about Paloma, which is a new four episode series that she
wrote and directed, which will premiere later this spring.
It stars Grace Gummer as a young woman dealing with the
unpredictability of a relationship both in romance and the
workplace. All episodes for the series can be found at
YouTube.com/WIGS.
Before we turn it over to Julia, the Moderator (Donna) is
going to explain how you guys can get in to the queue to ask
your questions, and then we’ll jump right in.
Moderator: We do have a question that is coming from the line
of Jamie Ruby from Scifivision.com.
Jamie: Thanks for doing the call.
Julia: Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you for joining me.
Jamie: So what made you decide to do a web series in the
first place?
Julia: You know what, it was as simple as wanting to work
with Rodrigo Garcia, and I really love the way he wrote. He
approached me about doing Blue I guess a little over more
than a year ago. At first I was a little bit reluctant about
the idea of a web series only because I didn’t know what to
expect, and I didn’t know really how the programming on
YouTube would develop, but I was intrigued also by the idea
because I thought this is kind of the wave of the future and
the way that people watch shows more and more, you know on
their devices and on the computer.
But what really sold me was the first scene of the first
episode in Season 1. It was just such a great premise and
setup for a show, which is that this girl leading a double
life is going to be constantly dealing with how to manage
that and how to control it and that the two worlds are going
to collide. In Season 1 she is with a client and as things
get hot and heavy she realizes that he recognizes her from
high school. I just thought that the idea that she’s trying
to keep something so secretive—a character that’s living
with a huge secret to me that was worth exploring. Then I
sort of looked at the idea of doing a web series
differently, which is that I do get a lot of creative
freedom that you sometimes don’t get when there’s a lot more
money involved or if you’re working with a movie studio or a
network.
Jamie: Definitely. Can you really quick though tell us a bit
too about Paloma since we don’t really know much about that?
Julia: Sure. It’s four episodes and it’s basically a
rumination on love and how delicate love is. It’s a year in
a couples’ relationship and how like the presence of a third
person can destroy that relationship even if there’s no
infidelity or foul play. It’s just like the idea of this
girl being attracted to somebody else and a lot of suspicion
and jealousy arises. But it’s about a young woman who works
in an art gallery, and she has a very flirtatious
relationship with her boss that could help advance her
career, and that ends up confusing her and also just
destroying this loving relationship that she had with her
boyfriend.
Jamie: Great. Can’t wait and I’m loving Blue so far.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: We do have a question coming from the line of
Karen Benardello from Yahoo Voices.
Karen: Julia, I just wanted to ask you—you mentioned earlier
about having differences on the set of Blue because it is a
web series—how do you feel that the overall filming practice
for Blue and Paloma as well since they’re both web series do
they differ at all from the films on the other network
television shows that you have done either creatively or
technically?
Julia: Well, I think that the way that viewers watch them is
different but day to day I felt like I was on a set of a TV
show. The turnaround is faster so whereas in movies and with
television shows the amount of time it takes to get
something developed and financed and the setup and shot and
out in theatres or on TV is so long. I mean it can be years,
and the exciting thing about what we’re doing with WIGS is
that we can accomplish so much more so quickly. I wrote Paloma in September and it’s already finished, and we shot
Blue in November and December and it’s already being aired.
In terms of technically it’s really not that different. We
use very professional crews and good production value and
the cameras are pretty sophisticated, but creatively it’s
different. It’s just much more contained so really when we
were making Blue it was really about my collaboration with
Rodrigo and when I was making Paloma I would look to Jon
Avnet, our producer and the creator of the channel, for
guidance. He gave me so much freedom to just go with my
vision, and that’s really different from I think when you’re
working on a studio film. You have a lot of executives with
opinions and usually valid opinions but because there’s so
much more money at stake I think they’re a lot more people
to answer to. We didn’t really have that with Blue or Paloma.
Karen: Okay. Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Reg
Seeton from Thedeadbolt.com.
Reg: Hi, Julia; thanks for taking the time today.
Julia: Hi, sure. The Deadbolt that sounds very New York; I’ll
have to check it out.
Reg: Cool. How do you look at Blue; where Blue is at in her
life in relation to what many women confront about the
future?
Julia: Well, in some ways it’s really normal, in some ways
it’s really extraordinary. Her work as a call girl is very
extraordinary and not the norm, obviously, but her
relationship with her son is—I think she’s confronting his
adolescence in a way that is probably pretty normal for most
mothers and sons. He’s starting to be interested in girls
and she’s got to deal with answering all those questions
about sex, and she’s also uncomfortable with it.
Also, she’s a young mother so it gets a little confusing
between the two of them like what is the parent/child
relationship, and sometimes they act like siblings, and who
is actually parenting whom. Then another interesting thing
that we approach in Season II is that because he started
acting out in school they both have to go to therapy. I
think probably a lot of mothers don’t like the idea of their
son having to be in therapy because the first person the
therapist is going to look to blame is the mother, but also
a mother like Blue who has such a web of lies that she’s
tangled in the last place that she wants to be is in a
therapist’s office being asked questions about her past so
it gets interesting.
Reg: And since you wrote and directed Paloma what place is it
coming from in terms of what you know and what you wanted to
say?
Julia: Well, it’s funny because when Rodrigo was talking to
me about a second season of Blue we were discussing story
ideas. I said, “Would you guys be open to the idea of me
directing something?” and they said, “Yeah. Absolutely. Go
write it.” And I thought should I write something really
political and intellectual and meaningful, and instead I—I
mean I think the story is meaningful but I decided to write
something that I would want to watch, and I also wrote it
very specifically for the channel. I don’t know. I guess
it’s as simple as I wrote something that I would want to
watch. It was very much on my mind like questioning the idea
of love and romantic love and how delicate that can be, and
then a lot of it was just from my imagination. I knew that I
had the opportunity to direct and so I just let my
imagination kind of run wild.
Reg: Well, great job with everything and good luck in the
future.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of David
Martindale from Hearst Newspapers.
David: Hi, Julia. Pardon my voice; I had tongue surgery less
than two months ago; I’m making a recovery. I’m very
self-conscious about it.
Julia: Oh, I’m very sorry to hear that.
David: It’s okay; I’m getting better.
Julia: Oh, well, I wouldn’t have noticed but I hope you
recover quickly.
David: Thank you. Technology has changed so much the way that
we watch television and film the way it’s delivered to
viewers. I was curious how you watch your television and
film. Do you watch it on your computer? Do you watch it on
your phone? Do you find different ways to watch it, and has
the making of this show, your involvement in it affected the
way that you watch your film and television?
Julia: Well, I’m still trying to figure that out; meaning
where and how to watch things. I actually cancelled my cable
a few months ago because I thought—well, first of all I was
traveling but I also thought like there are so many channels
and so many things out there that I just felt like there was
a lot of white noise. I thought I can just watch everything
on the Internet, but I still like the bigger screen so I
don’t think—I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure it out,
and I still go to the movies. I like to sit in a dark
theatre, and I enjoy the projection of film.
But as technology gets better and better I do think if you
can really focus your attention on your computer screen
then—that’s really the big challenge to me but luckily what
we’ve been able to do with WIGS and Blue in particular is
like you can watch one episode at a time or you can watch a
bunch of episodes. If you watch them all the way through the
story of … actually about the length of a movie, but we’ve
made sure that in telling the story that it holds for the
hour and a half that is the first season.
David: All right. It is funny how screens are getting bigger
and smaller but conventional sized ones seem to be
disappearing I think. You know they’re really huge or
they’re really small. Anyway, thank you so much.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Gerry
Miller from MNN.
Gerry: Hi, Julia. I found something online that shows you got
involved in this kind of thing before. You did a spoof that
was very cute on being a fashion designer for an
environmental line; it was all a joke. Do you know what I’m
talking about?
Julia:Yeah. Yeah. The Julia Stiles Styles yeah.
Gerry: What prompted that?
Julia: Actually, it’s funny that you mentioned that because
the same guy that I did that video with we made a movie
called It’s a Disaster that’s available on-demand now and
will be out in theatres in April. Also, America Ferrerra and
David Cross are in it. What prompted that is they were
friends of mine and we had been hanging out in L.A. while I
was doing a play there, and I liked their comic work. They
had done a movie called The Seamstress that I saw and a
bunch of different videos, and oddly enough making spoofs
about Google. We were just talking one day and they had
ideas for these videos, and I thought why not it’d be fun.
Gerry: Are you actually eco conscious? The reason I ask is
MNN is like we … so even though that was a spoof do you do
anything that’s eco conscious in your life?
Julia: Yeah even simple things like trying to limit my use of
plastic bags. If I can get rid of the number of plastic bags
it’s like a personal challenge for me not to use plastic or
reuse …. I always get made when I go to the grocery store
and I forgot my little canvas bag.
Gerry: Yeah. The trick is to put them all back in the car.
Julia: Oh, but I don’t have a car see so I already have ….
Gerry: How do you get around L.A.?
Julia: No. I live in New York.
Gerry: Oh, you live in New York okay. Were all the shows shot
there?
Julia: No. The show is shot in L.A.
Gerry: So you came out here for that.
Julia: Yeah. We shot it in like less than two months so I
just come out for a short period of time.
Gerry: Ah, okay. I got you. Thanks.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Traci
Grant from Thestarscoop.com.
Traci: Hi, Julia; how are you?
Julia: Hi, good; how are you?
Traci: Good. I was hoping you could talk a little bit just
about your reaction, what was going through your head when
you found out Blue would be able to come back and that you
guys would get to do more episodes? I know the viewers are
really excited about it when we found out that series was
coming back. How were you feeling about it and what were you
thinking?
Julia: Oh I was really excited. It was really fun to talk to
Rodrigo about story ideas, but then also one thing that’s
really, really lovely about the WIG channel is it’s like the
first time I felt like I’m part of a community. A lot of
times when you work on a movie or a TV show you get very,
very close to the people that you’re working with, and then
you may or may not keep in touch with them. But particularly
because I got to work on Blue twice and then work on Paloma
with the same crew and the same production office I feel
like I’ve developed a real wonderful closeness with Rodrigo
Garcia and Jon Avnet. They were wonderful mentors to me but
also even just seeing the same crew members every day is
really comforting and nice.
Traci: Definitely. Is there anything that you can share with
us about some of the upcoming episodes? Any spoilers or
things to get people excited?
Julia: Well, if you can imagine that Blue has to go to
therapy I think that’s such a—when Rodrigo suggested that we
have Blue and her son see a therapist I thought that was
really interesting because obviously most people choose to
go to therapy, but because Blue is forced to go there the
idea that somebody who is leading a double life and trying
to keep so many secrets that she would be asked lots of
questions about her past I think is a perfect setup for
tension.
Traci: Okay. Thank you so much for your time today; I
appreciate it.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of
Stephanie Webber from Ology Media.
Stephanie: Hi, Julia; thank you so much. Congratulations on
Silver Linings Playbook. You were great in it.
Julia: Oh, thank you so much. I’m glad you liked it.
Stephanie: Well, a lot of my questions have been asked but
obviously WIGS—I liked how you said it’s a community and
it’s definitely about like women empowerment, and a lot of
roles that you seem to choose anything from even Ten Things
I Hate about You they’re definitely empowering. How do you
go about choosing certain roles?
Julia: It’s interesting you say that because I don’t think
that Blue is very empowered but how do I choose? You know
the platform doesn’t really matter to me whether it’s stage
or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested
in like if it’s a story that I would want to watch and if
it’s a character that I feel like I can contribute something
to then that’s really what gets me. I mean it starts with
good writing but I also like to—I’ve learned more and more
that especially with film and TV it has a lot to do with who
the director is and if I like the director’s vision.
Stephanie: And obviously you started out a lot with acting
but now that you’re directing Paloma what was that
experience like and has that always been kind of a goal of
yours? Would you like to direct more in the future whether
it be YouTube, TV, or film?
Julia: Yes. I had directed a short film many years ago that …
is in and I got hooked. I think the biggest trick is finding
ways to practice, and I thought it was too big of a leap to
jump in to like a feature and plus it’s very hard to get
feature films made. But when I started working with Jon and
Rodrigo I thought this is a great platform and a great
opportunity to try my hand at directing again.
I think yeah I just saw an opportunity there, and also it’s
a question of having a story that you’re interested in
exploring for a good amount of time because directing is a
real time commitment. But yeah I think it’s one of the most
joyous things that I’ve experience while I was making Paloma
was watching something that was in your imagination when
you’re sitting alone at a computer come to life, and then
kind of take on a life of its own.
Stephanie: I just have to ask, I saw that you were casted as
the lead in Bell Jar and it was funny how it was referenced
in Ten Things I Hate about You and Silver Linings Playbook.
Was that just coincidence or have you always been a fan of
the book?
Julia: Well, the interesting thing is that’s sort of a
hangover on IMDb. We haven’t actually made a movie about The
Bell Jar. I had been trying to set it up as a movie for a
long time, and it wasn’t really the right timing. Who knows?
You never know - it could become something in the future,
but yes I love that book, and I think that it’s perfect for
being visualized whether on film or maybe like a short
series on TV.
Stephanie: Well, thank you so much and good luck. I’m excited
to see the rest of Blue next season.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Jerry
Nunn with Windy City Times.
Jerry: Hi, Julia. I was wondering if you could talk about
working with Jennifer Beals because I love her and have met
her and she’s awesome.
Julia: Yeah she’s great. We didn’t actually work together but
I did meet her while we were on the set. She’s really,
really lovely but she’s in a different series on the WIGS
channel called Lauren that should come out after Blue I
think. Yeah I mean who doesn’t like Jennifer Beals?
Jerry: Right. Also, I work for LGBT Publication; was there
any kind of characters or angles to the story, things like
that that you thought about?
Julia: For Blue having to do with …?
Jerry: Yeah the one that you had written or you know that.
Julia: I’m not sure I know what you mean.
Jerry: If there were any characters or anything for viewer
that are gay or …?
Julia: A few of the scenes in Paloma there’s a lot of
discussion about sex and particularly sex with women, like
she and her boyfriend are discussing the idea of a
threesome.
Jerry: Okay. All right. Cool. I’ll have to check that out.
Awesome. Thanks so much.
Moderator: The next question will come from the line of Tim
Nydell from Rockbottom.
Tim: Hey, what’s up, Julia? How you doing today?
Julia: Hi, good; how are you?
Tim: I’m doing great. I want to know more about Paloma. What
else can you tell us about that and when can viewers see it?
Julia: I think they’ll be able to see it after Blue is
finished airing. I think that might be the spring. I’m not
really sure. What more can I tell you? Grace Gummer is in
it. Garret Dillahunt plays her boss. Rhys Coiro plays her
boyfriend. Forgive me if I’m repetitive because I have been
talking about it all day long.
It’s about a year in a couple’s relationships, and how the
presence of a third person can kind of destroy that
relationship. It’s rumination on love and how delicate love
can be. Grace Gummer plays a girl who works in an art
gallery and she has a very flirtatious relationship with her
boss, which could be beneficial to her career, and so not
only is that confusing but it also disrupts her romantic
relationship with her boyfriend. One of the lines in it is I
don’t think that people really commit to anything anymore so
it was also just my exploration of the idea of how we have
such growing Attention Deficit Disorder and not even just in
terms of technology but that even like enters the way that
we socialize and it can disrupt your romantic life; even
like the idea of is monogamy even possible.
Moderator: Our next question comes from the line of Jane
Gassociationer from Midlife Bloggers.
Jane: Hi, Julia; thanks for doing this. I have two questions.
The first one is I found Julia Stiles Blog is that really
you?
Julia: It was really me but right now I haven’t updated it in
forever, and I have to get on that. I sort of let it go for
a second, but I should—it was really me but it’s now been—I
don’t know. I haven’t checked it in a while it’s a little
outdated.
Jane: It’s wonderful.
Julia: Oh thank you.
Jane: My other question was you talked that you didn’t think
Blue is very empowered, and one of the things that struck me
and it struck me particularly in the scene with her mother
is how full of rage she is and really kind of shutdown. Can
you talk about that a bit?
Julia: That’s very well put. She’s got a lot of issues. I
think one of the things that—it’s hard not to judge it when
I’m playing her but when you look from the outside you can
so easily psychoanalyze Blue but I feel like it’s
unfortunately a very typical phenomena where she is very
confused sexually, is kind of damaged, and she idolizes her
father who is less than worthy of it and demonizes her
mother unfortunately. So that first scene she’s really
letting out all of her rage out on her mother.
Jane: Okay. Great.
Julia: I mean … person because she—oh, okay. Sorry.
Jane: No go ahead.
Julia: Oh no. It’s just we pick up Season II right where we
left off with Blue and at the end of Season I she is
revisiting this very confused sexual relationship with an
older man who probably abused her when she was younger, and
right on the heels of that she’s traumatized but also as
soon as you see her breakdown we see her having lunch with
her mother, and it’s like she takes it all out on her
mother. It’s almost like she’s a child still.
Jane: Okay. That makes sense. I didn’t follow that from the
last scene to the beginning of the second season so that
really makes sense where all that anger was coming from.
Thank you. Good luck.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Simon
Applebaum from Tomorrow will be Televised.
Simon: In your dealings with Jon and Rodrigo what is
everybody involved with WIGS ultimately would like to see
this network do? Do they see it ultimately graduating to a
television network? Do they see it being a major force with
YouTube, particularly with smart TVs now being the way
people are watching web content, and also, on a second level
opening up opportunities acting, writing, directing for
women and women of color?
Julia: Jon and Rodrigo can answer that better than I could,
but I think it’s still a work in progress, and so ideally
they would like to be able to maintain the creative control
over the work that we do and just have it seen by as many
people as possible. We don’t really know what that means,
traditional TV, or just a bigger platform on YouTube, but
it’s still sort of a work in progress. A perfect example,
they’re creating more opportunities for women to write and
direct because they created an opportunity to give me the
opportunity to do that.
Simon: By the way, Julia, now that FOX is involved with WIGS
in terms of helping market and promote and develop the
channel has anybody from FOX approached you about maybe
turning Blue or Paloma in to a series for FOX or FX or any
of the other FOX owned networks?
Julia: Again, that’s a better question for Jon. Nobody has
approached me just because it’s still really new. We just
launched it today. We’re seeing where it goes, and I know
that there’s the potential for FOX to do that. They already
started airing some of the ads for Blue on some of their
programming on TV. They’re really getting behind us in terms
of the marketing of it all and we’ll see where it goes.
Simon: Okay. Thanks very much, Julia. Good luck with both
shows.
Julia: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Jamie
Ruby from Scifivision.com.
Jamie: Hi, again. I apologize if this has been asked. I
forgot to plug in my computer and it disconnected me. Is it
hard for you to get in to the mindset of Blue?
Julia: It’s hard for me to—I wouldn’t say hard because I just
do it because I know that’s my job, but I feel like it
definitely is difficult like day to day. When we were
shooting I was in sort of a darker place, and that was the
first time I had experienced that as an actress because the
reality of some of the things that she experiences are
pretty uncomfortable. As much as it’s really intriguing to
play a character that is covering up so many lies and kind
of lying to herself it’s not the most comfortable feeling
every day. It’s pretty disturbing from the things that she’s
experienced.
Also it’s hard for me like now that I’m out of it and I’ve
step out of the experience of shooting and being in that
character I could easily psychoanalyze her but I didn’t want
to be judgmental while we were shooting. That’s the most
difficult thing. Like I wouldn’t stop and say, “Well, why is
she doing this?” because that would be sort of paralyzing.
Jamie: Right. That’s sort of the other thing I was going to
ask. Is it difficult to step back out of that, like did it
take a while or did you just kind of brush it off fast?
Julia: No I was ready to brush it off. I was ready to let the
sun shine.
Jamie: Okay. Great. Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question comes from the line of Kelly
Bryant from Okmagazine.com.
Kelly Hi, Julia. I wanted to know if you could talk a little
bit about the casting of Grace Gummer in Paloma.
Julia: Sure. I had seen her in a play in New York called The
Columnist with John Lithgow, and I was really struck by her
presence. I was struck by the fact that she had to play a
variety of different ages. She played even like a teenager,
and I thought that she really pulled that off well and
that’s a difficult thing to do. Her physicality was really
remarkable on stage, and I was just really impressed. I
think also with theatre actors or actors who have a lot of
experience in theatre have a whole other skillset, and so
she just was delightful and kind of alike a beacon of light.
I thought of her for the part and luckily she responded to
the material, and we were able to work it out.
Kelly Great. Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question will come from the line of Jamie
Ruby from scifivision.com.
Jamie: Again, hi. Is there anything in particular that you’ve
learned about yourself since you started working on Blue?
Julia: It sounds counterintuitive but I learned that I’m a
lot more modest than I even thought I was. Intellectually I
could say to Rodrigo—when we were coming up with story ideas
I said, “We have to be realistic about this girl’s job and
some of the experiences she has with her clients have to be
dangerous otherwise we’re just not being realistic.” And so
he wrote scenes where the clients are not so nice to her,
and then we would get to the set and I’d be like, “Oh, shit.
Well, I signed up for this.” Yeah I think that was the
biggest thing.
Jamie: Okay. Can you describe your character in three words?
Julia: Blue, okay. Confused, secretive, and childish at
times.
Jamie: Okay. Thank you.
Moderator: We have a question coming from the line of Gerry
Miller from MNN.
Gerry: Hi, Julia, again. I have a question about all the
other cast members in Blue. How you got them to participate.
Were they all really open to doing a web series in the first
place like Kathleen Quilan and William Peterson or did they
jump right on board?
Julia: That was largely I think to Rodrigo’s credit. They all
seemed really excited to be there, and I was certainly
impressed with the cast that we got. There was no—yeah it
was great to have people show up on set who really wanted to
be there because they loved the material, and nobody was
getting rich from this. It was interesting to act with a
different person every day. I don’t know but I think I
largely credit Rodrigo with the casting decisions.
Gerry: Okay. Because it’s a new medium and you didn’t get the
sense that they were reluctant to try anything like that
because it was different from what they were used to?
Julia: No. By the time they got to set I think, yeah,
everyone was sort of excited and intrigued at the
possibility of making good scripted content for the web.
Also on set it didn’t feel like—we have a professional crew,
and we have advanced cameras, and the actual logistics of
making the show are not that much different from being on
stage on any TV show. But they also would come in for like a
day here and there so I think they were down for the
adventure.
Gerry: And you making so many more episodes the second season
than the first was that intentional or there’s so much more
story to tell or what was the thought there?
Julia: I think it was yeah there was more story to tell, more
ground to cover. The episodes are short so I think it’s also
the nature of the Internet is that there’s so much content
out there that in order to compete you really have to make a
lot. It was a lot. … yeah it was double what we did the
second time but I think that we did it because we could.
Gerry: Okay. Thank you.
Michelle: Okay. I think we’re about to wrap up the conference
call unless there is one more question.
Moderator: We do have another question.
Michelle: Okay. This will be the final question though. Thank
you.
Moderator: And that will come from the line of Jane
Gassociationer from Midlife Bloggers.
Jane: Hi, Julia, again. I was also struck by the kind of
intimacy that watching Blue on the small screen give. I
wondered as an actress are you doing anything different? Do
you have to think of anything, does that affect you or is it
all done in the editing and directing?
Julia: It’s largely driven by the director. Rodrigo would
constantly tell us—like the reason that we’re all here and
the reason that this kind of thing is exciting in terms of
the creative freedom that we’re given is that his style is
really to emphasize the moments in between dialog. He would
always tell us to slow down and just to let moments play
out, and we didn’t have to rush. Like a lot of times with
traditional television they’re competing to keep your
attention in between ads so there’s a lot more explicitly
said in dialog. Rodrigo was really emphasizing that we could
treat this almost like a movie where you can let moments
breath.
In terms of while I was acting I was trying—I didn’t really
treat it any differently in terms of like the screen size,
but when I directed Paloma I remember thinking I was aware
of like I don’t want to be too subtle because I think that
people are watching this on smaller screens. Also, it’s a
very intimate experience to be watching something at your
computer but you never know like somebody could be watching
it from their computer at work or they could be watching it
from their computer with another group of people or on an
airplane or something. It’s hard to predict and you can’t
control where somebody is going to be watching what you make
so you kind of just have to try and tell the best story that
you can and hope it translates.
Jane: Okay. Thank you.
Julia: I mean people could be checking their email while
they’re watching so you know.
Jane: I don’t think so. It’s pretty riveting.
Julia: Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.
Michelle: Okay. Thank you all so much for participating in
our conference call today. I will be sending you all an
email with a reminder of how you can receive an audio
recording. I’ll forward you a transcript as well. Operator,
can you please explain the audio recording as well?
Moderator: Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, this conference will be
available for replay after 11:00 a.m. today until March 22nd
at midnight. You may access the AT&T Executive playback
service at any time by dialing 1-800-475-6701 and entering
the access code 286045.
Michelle: Thank you, everybody.
Moderator: That does conclude our conference for today. We
thank you for your participation and for using AT&T
Executive Teleconference Service. You may now disconnect.
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