Field Dispatch
Tyler LaPlant | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: And joining us. It's his first time on the show.
Speaker 1: We have filmmaker Tyler laplant is here with us. Hello Tyler, Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for having me. Absolutely, So you are
Speaker 1: from Nashua, correct, Yes, nashe me, I'm sure. And of
Speaker 1: course you've got a short film called Joey's Big Reveal.
Speaker 2: That I do, yes, and tell us about it. Yes,
Speaker 2: so I shot so a little I guess a little
Speaker 2: bit about me. I've been working professionally in the film
Speaker 2: and television industry for coming up on five years, which
Speaker 2: is pretty great. Right now, I work as a grip
Speaker 2: uh so, I work in the lighting department, and I'm
Speaker 2: I've been doing that for a while. And I've always
Speaker 2: wanted to be a writer director. And you know, this
Speaker 2: isn't the first project that I've I've written and directed,
Speaker 2: but this is this is like the first real one.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So this is Joey's Big Reveal, And you know,
Speaker 2: I made it with a really incredible group of you
Speaker 2: know New England cast and crew, you know to Curtis
Speaker 2: Comedy and you know, kind of in the veins of
Speaker 2: I think you should leave. So I'm really you know,
Speaker 2: we're so close to being done so Ika, I'm really
Speaker 2: excited to get it out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, by the way, so you mentioned a grip.
Speaker 1: What is a grip? Because I remember, you know, even
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I would see in the
Speaker 1: closing credits of things like key grip and things like that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and never knowing what that is or yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: So okay, So within you know, the way kind of
Speaker 2: movies work, you'll have you know, your camera department, your
Speaker 2: sound apartment, light department, you know whatnot. Within the lighting department,
Speaker 2: it's kind of split up between two groups, grips and electricians.
Speaker 2: The best way for me to describe it is like
Speaker 2: electricians will set the lights up and then grips we
Speaker 2: diffuse the light. We add shadow. We also provide camera support.
Speaker 2: So if you're ever watching, you know, a movie or
Speaker 2: show and there's like, you know that shot where they're
Speaker 2: all you know, camera's following them, that's a dolly shot
Speaker 2: that typically, you know, a dolly grip would be operating
Speaker 2: the piece of equipment that's actually making the camera move.
Speaker 2: So we do lighting, we do camera support.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so what what got you started? I when
Speaker 1: when I listened to your interview on UH on Ray's show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ray Dudley, great guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't think I've ever met Ray, but
Speaker 1: but I grew to like him very quickly listening to that.
Speaker 1: That interview is a great interviewer. Yeah. So, and I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it, and you were very good in that.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed your your conversation with him. So I got
Speaker 1: to cheat a little bit learn some things about you
Speaker 1: ahead of time. But but so you were talking about
Speaker 1: this was very interesting to me. So you had a
Speaker 1: job where your boss basically said to you one day,
Speaker 1: I don't think, Yeah, I don't think you want to
Speaker 1: be here, so I'm gonna let you go and you
Speaker 1: can go and make movies. Yeah, tell that, Tell that
Speaker 1: story for our listeners.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2: So I was working at a place called New Sky
Speaker 2: Productions out of Nashville, New Hampshire, and uh, they kind
Speaker 2: of focused on advertising and like kind of doc you style,
Speaker 2: advertise for like local businesses in and around New England.
Speaker 2: And I was working under this guy, Grant Morris, and
Speaker 2: and I'd worked for him, you know, while I was
Speaker 2: in high school and then after i'd graduated, and it
Speaker 2: was the summer I graduated that and this was during COVID.
Speaker 2: By the way, so like twenty twenty summer I graduated
Speaker 2: high school. My you know, he came, he brought me
Speaker 2: into the office and said like, hey man, you want
Speaker 2: to go make movies. You know, like I could certainly
Speaker 2: have you here, and but you're going to be wasting
Speaker 2: your your ambition. It was really tough because like I
Speaker 2: loved working there and I thought maybe like okay, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll do the advertisement thing and you know, maybe do
Speaker 2: something more practical. But that being fired from that really
Speaker 2: kind of Yeah. It was the you know I love
Speaker 2: to this day, I still say thanks to him because
Speaker 2: now I'm out here making movies. I'm going to LA
Speaker 2: on Monday, so I'm I'm really excited. So I've you know,
Speaker 2: so it opened a lot of doors.
Speaker 1: So it was the right thing. Oh yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: tough love, right, I mean, you know, because it sounds
Speaker 1: like he didn't it sounds like he didn't call you
Speaker 1: in and say hey, I'm thinking maybe you should get
Speaker 1: Like he fired you.
Speaker 2: He literally straight up and he's like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I think you learned enough here go out and make movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so. How did you feel like
Speaker 1: in that moment was there. Were you excited? Were you
Speaker 1: a little bit panicked? Were you like, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: I bawled my eyes out, did.
Speaker 1: You, because you said you actually loved working there? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved it. I mean it was a great environment.
Speaker 2: I was doing something cool and interesting, and you know,
Speaker 2: I was kind of heartbroken and then but but afterwards
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, no, this is this is the
Speaker 2: this is the way to do it. Yeah, and it
Speaker 2: was probably probably one of the better better times I've
Speaker 2: been fired in my.
Speaker 1: Life, right right, So then what was your next move
Speaker 1: after that? Like, right after that happened, What was the
Speaker 1: next thing that you did?
Speaker 2: Actually, this is a great kind of segue for some
Speaker 2: of the casts for Joey's big reveal, because I worked
Speaker 2: on this, uh this short film. It's still on YouTube
Speaker 2: if you really want to find it. It's called Retribution.
Speaker 2: It's a short film that I shot and two of
Speaker 2: my other buddies from Nashua, they you know, they wrote
Speaker 2: it and directed it together, and we brought on this
Speaker 2: guy named David Torres Junior to play our you know,
Speaker 2: bad guy and our main you know, like mafia bad guy.
Speaker 2: And he came on and it was actually his first
Speaker 2: he had just gotten into acting, and it was his uh,
Speaker 2: it was his first time like actually speaking like you know,
Speaker 2: for a role, like any role once forever. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh wow, that's really great.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: David and I kept in contact for you know, past
Speaker 2: five years, and he's really been working on some great stuff,
Speaker 2: getting a lot of great experience. And you know, I
Speaker 2: wrote this project and Joy's Burg Reveal is kind of
Speaker 2: like a mafioso type movie, So yeah, I needed somebody
Speaker 2: to play that. And you know, I remember watching a
Speaker 2: movie he was in called Ethis that came out last year,
Speaker 2: a baseball movie, and I'm like, man, this guy really
Speaker 2: is truly fantastic. So I called him up and and
Speaker 2: we I pretty much just gave him the part right
Speaker 2: then and there, and you know, it's been history ever since.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So did you like when you when you left,
Speaker 1: when you left that job, was that like like did
Speaker 1: you jump right into Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tried working on pretty much.
Speaker 2: The idea is like there's like I looked called the
Speaker 2: short film Circuit Massachusetts. So there's a lot of short
Speaker 2: films happening, So you hop on the Facebook group. I
Speaker 2: hopped on the Facebook groups. Yeah, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, I'd love to work on people's projects whatever,
Speaker 2: little no experience, you know, put me in coach and
Speaker 2: I got reached out by Victor Herman and Jana Cipriano,
Speaker 2: and I ended up being the assistant director. You put
Speaker 2: heavy quotations around that because I have at the time,
Speaker 2: I had no idea what an assistant director did, and
Speaker 2: I was like a glorified PA. But I worked on
Speaker 2: their films Woodshedding by Victor and and Trauma Bond by Jana,
Speaker 2: and that sort of got me in a position to
Speaker 2: meet a lot of industry professionals around the area. And
Speaker 2: you know, I started being a productionist and from that
Speaker 2: for about a year until I moved into the grip department.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you got you got busy quickly. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like you were languishing trying to figure out your next
Speaker 1: move necessarily, like you you.
Speaker 3: Jump on what's that I said that would come later on?
Speaker 1: Oh really okay, But initially like you jumped right in.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I'd be working for free. And
Speaker 2: then you know, eventually I got really lucky and reached
Speaker 2: out to work on a couple of like really big projects.
Speaker 2: Like very early on my career, confess Fletch moved with
Speaker 2: John Ham. It's a Chevy Chase remake. They filmed it
Speaker 2: out in Massachusetts, and you know, I got a call
Speaker 2: from a buddy who I worked on on, you know,
Speaker 2: the previous short films, and they're like, hey, come on,
Speaker 2: I'm going on vacation, come work on this fifteen million
Speaker 2: dollar movie.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, yeah, I called out of my
Speaker 2: job at home Depot at the time, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was it was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So something interesting too that you mentioned. I remember
Speaker 1: hearing you say this, Soray too. You know, you talked
Speaker 1: about the short film circuit. So is it because it
Speaker 1: never would have even necessarily occurred to me that there
Speaker 1: was a short film circuit, so to speak. But are
Speaker 1: there a lot more short films being made than maybe
Speaker 1: most people even realize.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 2: big projects or sorry, there's a lot of smaller projects.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of a lot of people trying
Speaker 2: to make like you know, Instagram type content like comedy
Speaker 2: stuff whatever. And then you know, you have a lot
Speaker 2: of college kids, a lot of film schools around here
Speaker 2: Keene State, Emerson, so you have a lot of them
Speaker 2: working on their movies. And then you have a lot
Speaker 2: of industry professionals who you know, are like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: I like making movies. So then you work on your
Speaker 2: friends films, and there's there's a good amount like if
Speaker 2: you want to hop in and at least in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: there is a healthy amount of projects that you could
Speaker 2: work at least for free to start until you, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of figure out what you're worth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really interesting because, like I said, I don't
Speaker 1: think most people realize just how much of that is
Speaker 1: being done. And so what what differentiates a short film? Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask it this way. Sure, how long can
Speaker 1: a short film be to still be considered a short
Speaker 1: film versus a feature film? Like what's kind of the
Speaker 1: what's kind of the line in terms of I mean,
Speaker 1: there's probably no like official rule.
Speaker 3: But no, actually I think I believe it or not.
Speaker 2: I think I think there is like an official rule
Speaker 2: of like I think it's anything over sixty minutes is
Speaker 2: like defined as a feature okay, Whereas I don't know,
Speaker 2: I mean I've worked on short films that you know,
Speaker 2: are two minutes long, and I've worked on short films
Speaker 2: that are forty eight minutes long, Like yeah, I think
Speaker 2: the idea is like if you're under an hour, it's
Speaker 2: a short film. Okay, you know it's the sort of
Speaker 2: I guess like going, you know, going basis.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, okay, okay. Were there particular short films
Speaker 1: that inspired you to really want to do that? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know, working on I worked on a
Speaker 2: project called wood Shedding, like really early on, really close
Speaker 2: friend of mine and mentor, my buddy, Victor Herman, wrote
Speaker 2: and directed and produced that movie. And you know, being
Speaker 2: being with somebody like I. I think the guy's a
Speaker 2: fantastic writer, director like his his work really really resonates
Speaker 2: with me. So, you know, being able to to work
Speaker 2: under a guy like that, and and you know get
Speaker 2: to become like not not not just a mentor, but
Speaker 2: just pals, just buddies, like we get you know, we'll
Speaker 2: we'll get together and watch movies together, like you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's nice. So to be able to
Speaker 2: have that was was huge. So like wood Shedding was
Speaker 2: was a big one for me. Trauma Bond was another
Speaker 2: big one for me early on my movie Retribution that
Speaker 2: I shot like that was like it was just it
Speaker 2: was just fun and I felt happy with what I
Speaker 2: am proud of what I was making. You know, I've
Speaker 2: worked on a lot of really great stuff, uh, in
Speaker 2: terms of short films by Lando Michael t another incredible
Speaker 2: writer director out in New England. We worked together in
Speaker 2: the Whitney Houston movie that came out a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now I've been fortunate enough to work on like
Speaker 2: big stuff, little stuff that's great. But yeah, a lot
Speaker 2: of great short films around here.
Speaker 1: Is there is there almost like a in terms of
Speaker 1: working on a short film? Is is there something exciting
Speaker 1: about knowing that you're working on something that is going
Speaker 1: to You're going to get to the end of it quicker?
Speaker 1: In theory? I mean every project is different than say
Speaker 1: a feature film, because I would think if you're someone
Speaker 1: who you know, you want that because there's a certain
Speaker 1: gratification that comes from that right when you complete, When
Speaker 1: you complete anything, there's you know, you get that endorphin
Speaker 1: rush right when you can create anything that matters to you.
Speaker 1: But with a short film, is there something appealing about Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a short film, it's not going to take as
Speaker 1: long to do as a feature film. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to get to see the the end results of this
Speaker 1: and reach that that end point quicker and that's exciting
Speaker 1: or maybe not. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's you know, it's different.
Speaker 2: I'm coming more from like a crew I want to
Speaker 2: answer this more from a crew perspective of not to
Speaker 2: sound hard and like, because I was just you know,
Speaker 2: I love short films and working on them, but it
Speaker 2: is hard. Typically they're unpaid, and they're twelve hour days long,
Speaker 2: which is average day in you know, on set working
Speaker 2: on movies, but so it's like a twelve hour long day.
Speaker 2: You're not being paid. Typically you know, the people who
Speaker 2: are producing the short film are green and or you know,
Speaker 2: there are issues, so it's like, you know, maybe food
Speaker 2: isn't good, or maybe you know, everybody has to move
Speaker 2: their car eight times because parking is a real pain.
Speaker 1: Right, you know.
Speaker 2: And also it's like I I there are definitely short
Speaker 2: films I've worked on that that are very very good,
Speaker 2: but there's a lot of short films that I've worked
Speaker 2: on that either like the script doesn't emotionally resonate with
Speaker 2: me or whatever, like I'm helping a friend out or
Speaker 2: you know, like I have nothing going on this Sunday
Speaker 2: and they're like, hey, come work for two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty bucks.
Speaker 3: I'll be like okay.
Speaker 2: So there's no Honestly, there's more of an emotional I
Speaker 2: guess there's more of like an emotional return working on
Speaker 2: a feature because you have worked so long on it,
Speaker 2: whereas short films are just like they're for me at
Speaker 2: least like when I'm working them on them from a
Speaker 2: crew perspective, they're kind of just like quick jobs like okay,
Speaker 2: you know, like yeah, this will be done and over with,
Speaker 2: whereas a feature will be like okay, like I'm here
Speaker 2: for anywhere from like fifteen to like sixty seventy days,
Speaker 2: like depending on what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting if you're just joining us. We're talking with Tyler Laplant.
Speaker 1: He is a filmmaker from Nashua, New Hampshire. So what
Speaker 1: are are there A lot of differences? I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: a feature film has a larger budget, But in terms
Speaker 1: of the actual process of making a film, is there
Speaker 1: much different from making a short film and making a
Speaker 1: feature film.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I think it's obviously a much bigger
Speaker 2: task making a feature. You know, really everything from logistics
Speaker 2: to creative but the core, yes, oh yeah, but the core,
Speaker 2: the core of filmmaking can be found through the short
Speaker 2: film experience, where you need to write a cohesive script,
Speaker 2: you need to rewrite that script five, six, seven times.
Speaker 2: You need to raise funds, you need to work with
Speaker 2: actors and department heads and crew and dealing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe on features you'll have more producers
Speaker 2: so that you you know, you don't as a director,
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about.
Speaker 3: This stuff so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but definitely on shorts, you know, you're you're running
Speaker 2: around like crazy, so there's a lot of I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I might have lost track of the question a little bit.
Speaker 1: No, no, this is no, this is good. No, you're
Speaker 1: answering it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's definitely you gotta learn. You gotta be
Speaker 2: really good. You gotta be really good, and you gotta
Speaker 2: be really on top of your stuff, whether it's a
Speaker 2: short film or feature film, because you know, if your
Speaker 2: short film's a nightmare, like you know, you have people
Speaker 2: who are giving up their time and money to be
Speaker 2: a part of this. You don't want to waste their time,
Speaker 2: and you know, you're on a limited budget. So it's like,
Speaker 2: I think there are ways that it's like harder on
Speaker 2: a short film because you have you don't have enough time,
Speaker 2: like you know, you might have a lot of boundaries,
Speaker 2: so you know, it's it's kind of a it's kind
Speaker 2: of a balance. Like you know, I find the writing
Speaker 2: process to be kind of long and arduous sometimes, so like,
Speaker 2: you know, I want to make a feature but right
Speaker 2: now I'm just I'm stuck, not stuck, but like I'm
Speaker 2: in the writing process, and that's just that's going to
Speaker 2: take as long as it's going to take, right So
Speaker 2: as if you have the time and patience for it,
Speaker 2: then then you can make a short film. And if
Speaker 2: you have the time patients for that, you can definitely
Speaker 2: make a feature film.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And then what differentiates a short film from say,
Speaker 1: because we live in such an interesting time, yeah, in
Speaker 1: terms of social media and and what you can do,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and because you know, these days,
Speaker 1: anybody can take you know, can take a cell phone
Speaker 1: with a good camera and record things and shoot things,
Speaker 1: and and and obviously I'm sure there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people on social media, on YouTube who consider themselves, you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of short film. I mean, content creator has
Speaker 1: become sort of the catch after YE tell me why
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Well.
Speaker 2: That's the thing, is like, okay, so I don't There
Speaker 2: definitely are people who are content creator. They watch stuff,
Speaker 2: they say, they make stuff for you to like watch
Speaker 2: and write your brain written with ye. But there are
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are like, you know, like oh,
Speaker 2: you know, like, oh, this is the content that I
Speaker 2: make and it's art. So you're an artist, say say
Speaker 2: you make art?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Like this whole idea that it's content, that it's something
Speaker 2: too not to get all like you know, Cami here,
Speaker 2: but like something to like buy and and and and
Speaker 2: consume and and and and spread out is like I
Speaker 2: think it's like a little ridiculous, and I think it's
Speaker 2: I get that degrading.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like yeah, I mean I don't know, like
Speaker 2: I I don't look at you know the way I
Speaker 2: look at Joey's Bigger Field.
Speaker 3: It's a short film. You know, I spent damn I.
Speaker 2: Spent almost near damn is fine, Oh great, I spent
Speaker 2: damn near ten ten thousand dollars making this movie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know. Uh so to me, it's not just about money.
Speaker 2: But it's like, you know, I had twenty five crew members,
Speaker 2: I had you know, ten background actors. You know, I
Speaker 2: had months and months of planning and prepping. I had
Speaker 2: rewrites you know. Now I'm going through the editing process.
Speaker 2: So it's like I'm putting in the work for it
Speaker 2: to be a short film, something that I would like
Speaker 2: to be a cinematic experience for my audience.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I don't I'm not gonna knock
Speaker 2: you know, people on on on Instagram or TikTok that
Speaker 2: are making skits with their friends and they're they're considering
Speaker 2: that filmmaking, Like, yeah, that that that is filmmaking, Like
Speaker 2: go out and make a movie with your phone. Like
Speaker 2: if you if you you need to want to make
Speaker 2: a movie, you need to it needs to be something
Speaker 2: that Like, man, the only way I can feel like
Speaker 2: a person is if I'm making movies.
Speaker 3: That's how you're going to be successful. I think. So, like,
Speaker 3: if you're that.
Speaker 2: Type of person and your only resources is a cell
Speaker 2: phone and your two pals, then go for it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: But the idea is that you want to move past
Speaker 2: that and you want to get better than that because
Speaker 2: there's a whole world of filmmaking out there.
Speaker 1: Right right. You talked about and you mentioned the budget,
Speaker 1: you know, ten thousand dollars that you've spent on Joey's
Speaker 1: Big Reveal. Like, what are some because obviously some of
Speaker 1: the expenses are obvious, but some might might be not
Speaker 1: so obvious. So for someone like me who's never worked
Speaker 1: in that realm, where what are what are some of
Speaker 1: the things that you pay for with so money?
Speaker 3: The big thing for me was paying my cast and crew. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of short films kind of do
Speaker 2: the thing where you know, maybe the director of photography
Speaker 2: or the key grip and the gaffer and the sound
Speaker 2: guy get paid, but everybody else, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: falls by the wayside.
Speaker 3: It was really really.
Speaker 2: Important for me that each one of my crew members
Speaker 2: was paid, you know. It was I was working with
Speaker 2: SAG members Screen Actors Guild for anybody unfamiliar, so I
Speaker 2: was working with union members. It had to be you know,
Speaker 2: I had to pay my cast like a certain percentage.
Speaker 3: I think it's like or not percentage.
Speaker 2: I think it's like like two eighty five For micro budgets,
Speaker 2: so it's like, that's automatically, you know, I had I
Speaker 2: had two SAG after members, Like that's automatically, you know,
Speaker 2: six hundred dollars like ye, you know, so it's like money,
Speaker 2: money adds up.
Speaker 3: So the big thing was labor.
Speaker 2: Probably the second biggest thing so far has been like
Speaker 2: post production, just in that again, paying my editor, paying
Speaker 2: my mixer, paying my color correction. Uh, the voiceover work
Speaker 2: that has to go into the movie, you know, so
Speaker 2: you know I've been trying. My My big goal is
Speaker 2: is everybody, everybody gets paid.
Speaker 3: You know, a lot of a lot of short films.
Speaker 2: Then a lot of projects will try to exploit people's
Speaker 2: labor and they they know that they can get people
Speaker 2: to work for free, right And you know, my big
Speaker 2: thing is like, hey, this is how my buddies pay bills.
Speaker 2: And it's not much, but here's what I have. So
Speaker 2: most of that money went towards paying people. And then
Speaker 2: you have food, you have costumes, you have you know, oh,
Speaker 2: this lighter isn't working, we need to go get another one.
Speaker 2: And then you have a pa who decides to tip
Speaker 2: thirty dollars on lunch even though it's your money, you know,
Speaker 2: like that has that happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happened on mine.
Speaker 2: That's okay, But you know, so it adds up, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it adds up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you almost have to be you know, because you
Speaker 1: talked about how when you're doing a short film, you
Speaker 1: know you have to be responsible for all these things
Speaker 1: that you know, like the money for example, Like if
Speaker 1: you're making a feature and you're the director, well you
Speaker 1: know you've got producers who are Yeah, you're not worried
Speaker 1: about the money. Well, the short film, you're worried about everything,
Speaker 1: and it's almost like you have to be an accountant
Speaker 1: on top of everything else. Yeah, is what it sounds like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I which I'm not a very good accountant. No,
Speaker 2: I mean I do want to show out the producers
Speaker 2: I had on here, justin Leslie Smith, Matt my buddy,
Speaker 2: Matt Hernon and Ted Omo like these you know, these
Speaker 2: these three guys and gals really took great care of me.
Speaker 2: And you know there's definitely a lot of decisions producing
Speaker 2: why so that like, you know, I made myself, but
Speaker 2: you know I had people to bounce off of and
Speaker 2: I had people supporting me. So my producers really really
Speaker 2: killed it.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, what's been. Is there something that stood out
Speaker 1: to you as the biggest surprise in terms of as
Speaker 1: as you're making a short film, something that you didn't expect,
Speaker 1: or maybe a challenge that you didn't see coming.
Speaker 3: Ah geez. Honestly, yeah, I think there.
Speaker 2: I think because I had to take on a lot
Speaker 2: of producing roles, there's a lot of stuff about my
Speaker 2: short film that or like specific aspects that I wish
Speaker 2: that I could change. Nothing too nothing too drastic. It's
Speaker 2: more it's more just like a bunch of small things.
Speaker 2: And I've also threw I kid, you know, I've probably
Speaker 2: watched this thing over two hundred times now, and you
Speaker 2: know it's going to be a lot harder for me
Speaker 2: to uh not nick not nick pick after after so long.
Speaker 2: But honestly, I mean, I think that the big challenge
Speaker 2: really honestly is like just mentally being like, okay, I'm
Speaker 2: doing this it It can be a lot like you know,
Speaker 2: like sometimes I get anxious about these sort of things,
Speaker 2: like you know, it's you know, I don't want to
Speaker 2: make myself look like an idiot in front of like
Speaker 2: twenty five people who are like my friends, and you know.
Speaker 3: That's not fun.
Speaker 2: You know, I've definitely worked on I've definitely worked on
Speaker 2: projects features and shorts where you know, the director just
Speaker 2: kind of makes a real fool of himself and you.
Speaker 3: Know, I did not.
Speaker 2: I that's that's a huge pressure. So like there is
Speaker 2: I think it's just like the mental pressure of like
Speaker 2: having to be a successful leader, at least attempting to be.
Speaker 2: It can be very daunting. But I'd like to think
Speaker 2: I did a decent job.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: True morale was good, So good. As long as everybody
Speaker 2: else is happy, I think I can be happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellent. Yeah, if you're just joining us, we
Speaker 1: have Tyler le Plant from Nashua. He is a is
Speaker 1: a filmmaker and we're talking about he's got his short
Speaker 1: film Joey's Big Reveal. You said, this is the second
Speaker 1: one you've done, though you did one before this.
Speaker 2: I've I've done I've directed and written like music videos
Speaker 2: and like several other projects, oh you have, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: this this is like the first like one where I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is like kind of professional. Okay, this is like
Speaker 2: my step into doing something more professional.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I'm curious here about some of the music
Speaker 1: videos that you've done.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: Uh, My first like real like like big one or
Speaker 2: not big one, but one with like a little bit
Speaker 2: of budget that I did was this song called Contact
Speaker 2: by an artist named Leonard.
Speaker 3: Sweet, really great guy.
Speaker 2: Actually my girlfriend Peyton that that was her supervisor and
Speaker 2: she you know, connected us and I. I produced and
Speaker 2: directed like his first music video and that was great
Speaker 2: because that was my first time really like since like
Speaker 2: like my doing films in high school, where like I would,
Speaker 2: I had a crew, I had actors, you know, I
Speaker 2: was directing people, and you know, that was that was
Speaker 2: really great experience that music videos. If you look it
Speaker 2: up contact Leonard sweets all on YouTube. I did a
Speaker 2: music video for a a Manchester band. Unfortunately they're not there,
Speaker 2: they're no longer together, but they're called the Graniteers. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: So I did their music video for mind Slide Okay yeah,
Speaker 2: which like a decent amount of people have seen, which
Speaker 2: is pretty cool. But then you know I did I
Speaker 2: did some stuff for Alfredo Beni Yeah, yeah, Afrado. So
Speaker 2: I've I've done I've done some stuff with Fredo. You know,
Speaker 2: I've done like some live performance stuff like little you know,
Speaker 2: small little things like with my own camera Most recently,
Speaker 2: I worked on a Dropkick Murphy's music video that was
Speaker 2: really cool. I ten he's real nice guy. Ken, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a cool guy. I've done, you know, I did
Speaker 2: this music video for this Boston or sorry, I not did.
Speaker 2: I worked on in the Lightning Apartment Flawed Mangos Surrealists,
Speaker 2: which is like I think they're at like two million
Speaker 2: views now or something like it kind of blew up,
Speaker 2: which was cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, I do like commercials, short films, features,
Speaker 2: music videos, corporate stuff.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I do a little bit of everything. Yeah, try to
Speaker 2: stay busy.
Speaker 1: That's that's excellent. I mean doing music videos. Is that
Speaker 1: probably so much fun? Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, so much fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, working usually, like I've worked on music,
Speaker 2: I've worked on a lot of music videos where bands
Speaker 2: are either super chill and they're like, yeah, let's do it,
Speaker 2: or they're like yeah, you know, you guys can do
Speaker 2: whatever you want, and then as soon as you show up,
Speaker 2: they have like a million ideas like what they want
Speaker 2: to shoot, right, So like it's it's kind of funny,
Speaker 2: like the balance of working with a band. But usually
Speaker 2: music videos are fun because like you're just doing stuff
Speaker 2: because it's cool, like yeah, the cool lighting set up,
Speaker 2: the cool camera move, like, you know, it's a cool vignette.
Speaker 2: Like you don't need to worry about narrative, you don't
Speaker 2: need to worry about all this stuff, like it can
Speaker 2: just be a purely aesthetic piece, which is really fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's great. Like what's what would be I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you don't have to say who it is, but
Speaker 1: what would be an example of a curve that you've
Speaker 1: kind of been thrown when when you go to do
Speaker 1: a music video?
Speaker 3: You know what, Actually, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I will say the name of the band because it's
Speaker 2: this is a good curve I'm gonna yeah. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: we were. It was on the surrealist music video for
Speaker 2: Flawed Mangoes or Flaming Mangos. I kind of forget the name,
Speaker 2: sorry guys. Anyway, but so I was working on their
Speaker 2: video and we were kind of wrapping up for the
Speaker 2: day and then you know, uh, the creative director of
Speaker 2: the band whatever, he comes up to us like me
Speaker 2: and Adrian Morano who's a production designer, and they're.
Speaker 3: Like, hey, I was key grip on this music video.
Speaker 2: So anyway, directors like, hey man, we really want to
Speaker 2: have like a floating guitar gag.
Speaker 3: Can you do that?
Speaker 2: And we had no prep for this, We had no
Speaker 2: like whatever. So you know, I asked Adrian, I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: do you have fishing line? And she's like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: have some fishing line. I'm like, all right, cool. So
Speaker 2: we got two lighting stands and we we pretty much
Speaker 2: made like a goal post and we raced it up
Speaker 2: about ten feet, brought the line in, tied the guitar
Speaker 2: around the what like the strap peg at the top,
Speaker 2: and then I had another piece of string at the
Speaker 2: bottom where the other peg was, and I would pretty
Speaker 2: much just like spin it and and the band ended
Speaker 2: up using it for like the opening shot of the
Speaker 2: music video. It's like a it was just really really sick.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, that was that was a good curve.
Speaker 2: Like every now and then, like you get something that's
Speaker 2: like it wasn't planned, but it is really cool.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know.
Speaker 2: Or I worked on Walking Dead Dead City. Okay, we
Speaker 2: were you know, we were filming. We were filming something
Speaker 2: we had to we had to for VFX reasons. We
Speaker 2: had to like set up these they're they're called bamboozles.
Speaker 2: They're pretty much like two by fours with like fabric,
Speaker 2: and the fabric was like this like green screen whatever,
Speaker 2: and they were doing a fire explosion and the bamboozles
Speaker 2: all burned down.
Speaker 3: They got they got torched.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know VFX comes with their flame
Speaker 2: retarded material.
Speaker 3: They set it up. It was fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm like, well, why couldn't we have done
Speaker 2: that in the first place? But I can't complain too
Speaker 2: much because making those bamboozles gave me forty hours of
Speaker 2: work that week. So it's like it's all a balance
Speaker 2: sometimes curve Like, curves can be good, curves can.
Speaker 3: Be bad, you know what I mean? Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So all right, so tell us more about Joey's big reveal.
Speaker 1: What's that's kind of the plot here?
Speaker 3: All right, So Joey's big reveal.
Speaker 2: It's, uh, group of mafioso's are hanging out together and
Speaker 2: one of them, Joey, uh, kinda kind of has a
Speaker 2: secret revealed out to his group. Chaos sort of ensues
Speaker 2: as Joey kind of breaks down, and then towards the
Speaker 2: end of the movie we get to see like a
Speaker 2: day in the life or sorry, a night in the
Speaker 2: life of of Joey living with the secret that he
Speaker 2: lives with.
Speaker 3: Okay, and I promise it's a comedy.
Speaker 2: Okay, watching it might not be obvious that it is.
Speaker 1: Okay, is it a dark comedy something like that?
Speaker 2: Did you It's okay if you if you did end
Speaker 2: up seeing it, but you should, you should.
Speaker 1: Well, I saw the clip that you said, but it
Speaker 1: was just a clip.
Speaker 3: Well yeah it was. It's it's only six minutes long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it like stopped it like it didn't show
Speaker 1: the whole for some reason. Might have been a Google driver.
Speaker 3: Is huh. Okay, that's really weird.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about okies, but yeah, it's a short. It's
Speaker 2: only the script was only like five or six pages
Speaker 2: as long as a comedy. You ever see the show,
Speaker 2: I think you should leave on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I've heard about it, but I've not actually watched it,
Speaker 1: but I've heard a lot about it.
Speaker 2: I'm heavily inspired by a guy named Tim Robinson. He
Speaker 2: Tim Robinson and Connor O'Malley are kind of like my
Speaker 2: two big like comedy big main comedy influences, And you know,
Speaker 2: they really make some crazy, outrageous stuff.
Speaker 3: So Joey's big reveal definitely toes the line.
Speaker 2: Between like awkwardness but but but comedy as well and
Speaker 2: and seriousness and you know, I don't know, I kind
Speaker 2: of want you guys to be a little confused watching it, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So what inspired you to? I mean obviously,
Speaker 1: so you know you talk about your comedy influences. Do
Speaker 1: you also like, do you like mob stuff? Do you?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, so I'm an Italian American Okay, so you know,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, long story, that's a different show, gotcha. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm the Italian guy with a French last name. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so I mean big, big squor szy guy big, you know,
Speaker 2: Brian de Palma.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably actually I don't.
Speaker 2: Know if I can say this on on the radio,
Speaker 2: but anyway, big big Italian American cinema guys. So the
Speaker 2: Mob movies have always been big inspiration. This movie is
Speaker 2: more it's definitely more absurdism than it is like Mafia Mob.
Speaker 2: It's it's more of like an aesthetic that I I
Speaker 2: choose to to use to like tell the story with.
Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely, uh, definitely definitely a big mob guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you like the Sopranos. Yes, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: my favorite television series of all time.
Speaker 2: I I also love, you know, good crime shows like
Speaker 2: Breaking Bad, Fantastic. I know, I know it's not a
Speaker 2: crime show, but I'm I'm I'm in the midst of
Speaker 2: watching mad Men right now.
Speaker 3: I've never seen it before.
Speaker 1: I never have either. Act.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 1: Everyone tells me I would love it, but I've ever
Speaker 1: watched it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's great. I watch it with my girlfriend.
Speaker 2: She really likes the show and yeah, you know, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: got a little.
Speaker 1: No, that's okay. No, it's easy to get sidetracked with
Speaker 1: mob stuff because you know, if you're really into it,
Speaker 1: you're really into it, you know, which, oh yeah, which
Speaker 1: we we obviously both are. I'd blame my mother for
Speaker 1: that because I remember when I was a kid, she
Speaker 1: was always talking about she loved uh reading uh uh
Speaker 1: biographies about mobsters. Yeah, like she was really in a
Speaker 1: John Dillinger and you know, the the Chicago Mobsters because
Speaker 1: she's from Chicago's nice, She's really into all that, and
Speaker 1: then she got me into it. But uh yeah, So
Speaker 1: so it makes sense that you would want to make
Speaker 1: something like that. Do you like, like how are you.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're still putting the finishing touches on this show.
Speaker 1: We say, do you know when this is going to
Speaker 1: be released officially?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I plan on doing the festival run. Okay,
Speaker 2: I will be doing like a big test screening so
Speaker 2: that I can so that people can come and check
Speaker 2: out the movie, which hopefully I'd like to do that
Speaker 2: sometime in like May or June. We're getting really really close.
Speaker 2: But the idea if if you want to watch Joey's
Speaker 2: big reveal, go out to a film festival, watch it.
Speaker 2: After about like after about a year and a half
Speaker 2: of doing festivals, I will throw it online. But you know,
Speaker 2: I've already been building up the Instagram for that, so
Speaker 2: we're almost at nineteen hundred followers, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I want.
Speaker 2: People to go and see it in festivals and experience
Speaker 2: it on the big screen. But you know, I also
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time and money working on this one,
Speaker 2: so I want as many people to see it, so
Speaker 2: it will definitely be living online at you know, at
Speaker 2: the end of its festival run.
Speaker 1: Now, So in terms of festivals, are there are these
Speaker 1: festivals where there there's a category specifically for short films.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean so most most
Speaker 2: film festivals, like i'd say, like a majority of the
Speaker 2: entries are going to be short films. And then you
Speaker 2: will have I mean yeah, obviously the bigger ones cons
Speaker 2: and and what's.
Speaker 3: Gosh, Sundance, Yes, thank you, Sundance Tribeca.
Speaker 2: Like you know, they're all going to have more you know,
Speaker 2: feature films and it you know, the future films are
Speaker 2: going to take the cake there. But but they're definitely
Speaker 2: shorts that still play at the big ones and a
Speaker 2: lot of local festivals and a lot of festivals throughout
Speaker 2: the country. Like really most of the most of what
Speaker 2: they're getting in are our short films. Okay, yeah, so
Speaker 2: you'll go, you know, watch some shorts, meet some filmmakers,
Speaker 2: you know, do some networking.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh wow, there's a pigeon right there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the the falcon cam.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome. Sorry, but I am like a squirrel
Speaker 2: with ADHD.
Speaker 1: It's all right, Well that problem. So do you think
Speaker 1: that helps you though in your work?
Speaker 3: No, not even a little bit. I don't know. Maybe,
Speaker 3: like the.
Speaker 1: Reason I asked you that question, So I have a
Speaker 1: friend and longtime listeners are familiar with them, longtime listeners
Speaker 1: on my show, Doctor Kevin ross Emory, and he's written
Speaker 1: books about like he has a book called Managing the Gift,
Speaker 1: which is about how if you have a d D
Speaker 1: and ADHD, how you know the ways that can actually
Speaker 1: help you and you could use it to your advantage.
Speaker 3: He's got to send me a copy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because a lot of yeah, you should talk to him,
Speaker 1: should introduce you to him, because a lot of successful
Speaker 1: people you know, have that or they just have very
Speaker 1: overactive minds. And and it can actually help you to
Speaker 1: focus because it's not it's not necessarily that that there's
Speaker 1: too many things distracting you. It's just that you know,
Speaker 1: you're you, you have something specific that you want to
Speaker 1: focus on, that you want to be able to hyper
Speaker 1: focus on and and and if you can do that,
Speaker 1: then it can actually help you solve problems quickly and
Speaker 1: you know, get things done quicker. There's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways that you can use at your advantage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 2: Think you know, I'm I'm very i am very scatterbrained,
Speaker 2: which does hurt I feel like it hurts me more
Speaker 2: than it helps me. However, you know, having to be
Speaker 2: having to like think of a lot of different solutions
Speaker 2: for things.
Speaker 3: It's something that I can do.
Speaker 2: You have to be a problem solver on set, whether
Speaker 2: you're a grip or you're a director or you're a
Speaker 2: production assistant, Like you got to think on your feet
Speaker 2: and if you want to be successful, you got to
Speaker 2: you got to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. That's one of the things doctor Kevin says,
Speaker 1: as people with ADHD are excellent solving problems. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: they can think of solutions that most people can't think of.
Speaker 1: Things will occur to you that most people won't won't
Speaker 1: necessarily think of. So yeah, it's it's it's interesting stuff,
Speaker 1: and I I kind of suspect that it might be
Speaker 1: something more helpful to you than you necessarily realize.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, there's there's like there's a
Speaker 2: lot to handle, and I feel like I feel like
Speaker 2: I can handle it. Just every now and then I'll
Speaker 2: get myself into that almost like trance like state of
Speaker 2: like oh oh shoot, like I can't like I can't
Speaker 2: do anything today until I take care of this one
Speaker 2: specific thing. But then at least you're taking care of
Speaker 2: that thing. So it's like it's like a balance. It's
Speaker 2: really a dance, right right.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're talking about, because I have
Speaker 1: I've never been diagnosed with anything like that, but I have,
Speaker 1: but I know that my brain works that way. Sometimes
Speaker 1: Jenny would she's not in the room, but she'd probably
Speaker 1: back me up on that, and I'll hyper focus on
Speaker 1: solving something specific that where it's that thing like you.
Speaker 1: I never heard anyone describe it quite the way you
Speaker 1: just did, but but you're right, that thing where you
Speaker 1: feel like you can't do anything else until you solve
Speaker 1: this specific problem that's in front of you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm one of the ways that I This is
Speaker 2: one of the things that I regret from Joey's big
Speaker 2: reveal is that so my my director of photography, Cat Holmes,
Speaker 2: positively fantastic. She's amazing to work with, She's amazing what
Speaker 2: she does. She comes from a lighting background, so I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit more biased towards working with her, but anyway,
Speaker 2: she's fantastic, And I pretty much told her, I'm like, hey, look,
Speaker 2: there's like two or three shots I really want in
Speaker 2: this movie. Everything else is just like wides and coverage,
Speaker 2: have fun and I did that so that I could
Speaker 2: focus on my actors' performances. I could focus on on,
Speaker 2: you know, making sure that they're they're nailing the bits.
Speaker 2: But the double edged sort of that is like, yes,
Speaker 2: my movie looks great, but there's there's a lot of
Speaker 2: it that I'm like, man, I wish I thought about
Speaker 2: shots more like I wish that I had, you know,
Speaker 2: like sort of like a momentum building to a certain thing.
Speaker 2: And that's just one of the things as a filmmaker
Speaker 2: is like a same thing, like like the costume design,
Speaker 2: Like I wish I went with a completely different costume
Speaker 2: design for my movie than what I did really and
Speaker 2: oh yeah, because you know, like I had my buddy
Speaker 2: Victor gave me a note. He's like he's like, I
Speaker 2: get that these guys are all like wearing like mafia
Speaker 2: adjacent outfits, but like what is their relationship? And that
Speaker 2: was like that was a hard note, but a very
Speaker 2: good note, because I'm like, Okay, if they're all wearing suits,
Speaker 2: then they're Mafia guys. They're they're obviously together, but like
Speaker 2: you know, you know, I got one guy and attracts
Speaker 2: to one guy in a suit, and then two guys
Speaker 2: were casual, and I'm just like, damn it, like you know,
Speaker 2: so it's like, there there are things that I wish
Speaker 2: that I did. You know, I believe very heavily in collaboration,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, I'm very happy that I had such
Speaker 2: a great group of people around me to make my
Speaker 2: movie better. But there are definitely things like you know,
Speaker 2: camera like camera shots and wardrobe that I just wish
Speaker 2: I thought more about. But I'm being tugged in so
Speaker 2: many different directions that there's only so much that I
Speaker 2: can do. Exactly, no projects ever going to be perfect.
Speaker 2: It's a short film, you.
Speaker 1: Know, right right exactly if you're just joining us, we're
Speaker 1: talking with a filmmaker, Tyler Laplant. Yeah, musicians talk about
Speaker 1: that too, you know. They they put out something and
Speaker 1: then they you know, We've had conversations on the show
Speaker 1: with various musicians. I'll say, well, you know, I wish
Speaker 1: I wish I had done this differently. I wish I
Speaker 1: had mixed this. That's a very common one. I wish
Speaker 1: I had mixed that differently, or made sure that it
Speaker 1: was mixed differently, or you know, or or I wish
Speaker 1: the song was longer or shorter or whatever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're always going to have that, you know.
Speaker 1: It even happens with you know, doing a radio show.
Speaker 1: It's an instant gratification thing. You know. I come in
Speaker 1: and do it and it's live and bang, that's it.
Speaker 1: But when I go back and listen to it later
Speaker 1: because I have to cut up the segments, post some
Speaker 1: individually and so forth, I I'll off and even just
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I misused that word. That wasn't the
Speaker 1: word I was looking for. Oh why did I ask
Speaker 1: that question? That was dumb? You know. It's it's hard
Speaker 1: not to be self critical when you're a creative person,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, with anything that you make, it's you know,
Speaker 1: and I'll beat myself up over, you know, just so
Speaker 1: I mispronounced that name or something. You know. No, you know.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a good I think there's a
Speaker 2: good balance of that because I think the best artists
Speaker 2: are critical of their work and they're like, no, this
Speaker 2: is bad, like objectively, I made a bad choice here.
Speaker 2: And I think there are so many, especially filmmakers, Like
Speaker 2: there's so many filmmakers that really just want to pat
Speaker 2: themselves on the back all the time and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know like I made you know, I made this movie.
Speaker 2: It was really really hard and I worked really really
Speaker 2: hard on it. But that doesn't mean that it's a
Speaker 2: good movie, right, And and you know that's the thing
Speaker 2: is like, and if you keep making like a short
Speaker 2: film each time and you're not getting better each time,
Speaker 2: then you're not growing or or or or getting better
Speaker 2: as a filmmaker. And that's the thing with me, is
Speaker 2: like I will be extremely hard on myself so that
Speaker 2: the next one is just a little bit better, And
Speaker 2: the next one is a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Right right, no doubt do you already have in mind?
Speaker 1: Uh what you the next one is gonna be.
Speaker 2: So I'm writing a I'm writing a feature right now
Speaker 2: called Cigarette Girls, and I'm actually I'm in I'm in
Speaker 2: the moment of thinking about maybe ripping it up and
Speaker 2: starting starting new, really new, like the same idea different
Speaker 2: different genre of music. It's it's about like these girls
Speaker 2: who work at at a at a music venue and
Speaker 2: they sell they sell cigarettes and it gets taken over
Speaker 2: by like a you know, extremist political group. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: so and they take the bar back. But anyway, so
Speaker 2: I'm writing now, honestly, like I I have a couple
Speaker 2: of shorts that I want to do. My girlfriend goes
Speaker 2: to Wellesley University and or Wellesley College, and that's like
Speaker 2: a famous, you know, all women's school, Mona, Lisa smile.
Speaker 3: You know the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I I kind of want to do a short film
Speaker 2: about like a boyfriend's association of just all the guys
Speaker 2: who like you know, hang out with hang out with
Speaker 2: each other because their girlfriends are very busy at at
Speaker 2: this all female college.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just you know, it's it's something, it's something brewing around
Speaker 2: in my head. But if I'm being honest with you,
Speaker 2: I know it's gonna sound like so hypocritical as you
Speaker 2: put the dun dun dumb music in or whatever. But
Speaker 2: I kinda I don't love watching short films. I don't
Speaker 2: love making them because I want to make features.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's the goal.
Speaker 2: And I'd rather like all the time and effort in
Speaker 2: resources that I put in to making a short film.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I just want to be doing this
Speaker 2: for features because features are more tangible and I can
Speaker 2: like get a feature on two B or it could
Speaker 2: you know, hit a festival and maybe blow up. Like
Speaker 2: features are kind of where it's at So I'd like
Speaker 2: to do like one or two more like shorts and
Speaker 2: then pretty much devote my time into making features, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd like to. I'd like to have a feature out
Speaker 2: before I'm thirty. Maybe knock on Wood that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's that's excellent, excellent. So Joey's
Speaker 1: big reveal. Forgive me if I if I ask you
Speaker 1: this already? Sure, do you know when the official well
Speaker 1: or when it's gonna be Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta I gotta finish up the credit sequence and a
Speaker 2: couple a couple of tiny things, and then it'll probably
Speaker 2: take a month for color correction and sound mixing, and
Speaker 2: then once that's done, I'll have a movie. So I'm
Speaker 2: looking at doing like a test screening night where you know,
Speaker 2: open open to the general public to come test screen
Speaker 2: this movie.
Speaker 3: I say test screen.
Speaker 2: It is not a premiere because festivals are very specific
Speaker 2: about that, to say, test screening of Joey's big reveal
Speaker 2: sometime in I don't know, May May or Jue. Oh
Speaker 2: that soon, okay, gratefully. Yeah, We're we're we're getting really close. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been. We shot this back in like December. So, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I took a month off. My my dog died and
Speaker 2: then he didn't kill her. But yeah, so I took
Speaker 2: a month off and got back in editing, and we've
Speaker 2: done like four or five rough drafts and we're getting
Speaker 2: we're getting pretty close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty close. That's fantastic. Do you know where you're
Speaker 1: going to do the test screening? And you're going to
Speaker 1: do it in Nashua or.
Speaker 2: I plan on doing it in Massachusetts? Sorry, sorry New
Speaker 2: Hampshire people, Wow another Falcon. Sorry anyway, I plan on
Speaker 2: doing New Hampshire. Sorry, I planned in Massachusetts. I'd love
Speaker 2: to do it at like a really cool theater, like
Speaker 2: you know, the Region Theater in Arlington or you know
Speaker 2: Coolidge Corner Brattle something like that. Sure, it's really just
Speaker 2: gonna be a question of just like what place can
Speaker 2: I afford to rent right now?
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so hopefully, hopefully, very very soon, I'll send
Speaker 2: invites to you and everybody else.
Speaker 1: Excellent, Yeah, excellent, wonderful, wonderful. Let's see, well we are.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you want us to know about Joey's
Speaker 1: big reveal that we didn't talk about? Did you want
Speaker 1: to did you mention any of the the actors who
Speaker 1: are in it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Actually I'd love to talk about like
Speaker 2: cast and cruise super fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: I literally like I'm you know, everybody.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in the tour director like Wes Anderson
Speaker 2: or whatever, Like I think he makes great movies, but
Speaker 2: I think it's can I say BS or is that
Speaker 2: gonna you says?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: So I think I think the tour director is BS
Speaker 2: because the most you're you're Wes. Wes Anderson is just
Speaker 2: as good as Dolly Grip And I'm just as good
Speaker 2: as my movie is just as good as as everybody
Speaker 2: else working on it. And so I really had an
Speaker 2: incredible cast and crew, Cat Holmes, Dping Mel Nestrick working
Speaker 2: as my gaffer. In terms of cast and crew, Joey's
Speaker 2: played by uh David Torres, junior, fantastic actor. Most recently
Speaker 2: was in this really big movie or not big movie,
Speaker 2: but this movie kind of blew up called ephis. It's
Speaker 2: a baseball slice of life movie. Another ephis star Peter Minkara,
Speaker 2: he plays Tony. My buddy Ashton O'Brien plays Alfredo, and
Speaker 2: this guy Pat Say, He's like Instagram kind of Instagram famous,
Speaker 2: which is cool. He was like the last minute addition
Speaker 2: to our our cast because his you know, the the
Speaker 2: guy who I had booked for his role, like dropped
Speaker 2: out like three days before filming. I was like, oh crap.
Speaker 2: So Pat Shay hopped in and he was great to
Speaker 2: work with. Uh and he plays Christopher. And you know,
Speaker 2: I had some buddies come on to be some background
Speaker 2: actors towards the end. But I don't want to give
Speaker 2: away too many okay, too many people. There's some spoiler territory,
Speaker 2: but uh, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Really incredible local cast and crew. I mean, I love
Speaker 2: you guys. Thank you so much. If if any of
Speaker 2: you end up listening to this, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I owe this whole movie to everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh that's very cool, very cool. What about Tyler? For
Speaker 1: people who want to keep up with everything that you're doing,
Speaker 1: where should they go online? Sure?
Speaker 2: So if you look up Joey's Big Reveal on Instagram,
Speaker 2: you can find my page there. We also have a
Speaker 2: Facebook page Joey's Big Reveal my Instagram if you want
Speaker 2: to check out my photography or you know, just keep
Speaker 2: tabs on me. Is Tyler Video twenty seven. You can
Speaker 2: find updates on Joey's big reveal there as well. I'm
Speaker 2: mostly active on Instagram. Okay, I don't know. I have
Speaker 2: some stuff out there on YouTube. You can you know,
Speaker 2: find through my my links and stuff. But yeah, come check,
Speaker 2: come check us out. Joey's big reveal. Got a lot
Speaker 2: of great bts, a lot of great stuff. Come in
Speaker 2: and look out for Joey's big reveal at a film
Speaker 2: festival near you, hopefully very soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, nice, Well, congratulations on that being being almost
Speaker 1: done and I can't wait to see the final the
Speaker 1: final film.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, man, I really appreciate absolutely.
Speaker 1: Tyler Laplant from Nashua, New Hampshire filmmaker and wonderful to
Speaker 1: have you here.
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