New New Yorkers
Writing with Movement
Lesson 4: Thank you!
We will spend this class sharing any work we have created during these 4 weeks or outside of class.
Then we’ll watch the beginning of the 2015 film Tangerine, directed by Sean Baker!
I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to the New New Yorkers program, Queens Museum, NYPL, and all of you for giving me this space and to share your Wednesday evenings to talk about the film.
For future classes, I want to be very explicit about the material I will be covering so you know what you are signing up for. You are all incredibly insightful and came into the class with so much knowledge! I want to find ways to honor that.
Let’s share! I would love to see your storyboard, script, short video, audio field recording, shot list, story synopsis…!
Why Tangerine ?
- Shot on 3 iPhone 5S smartphones with $100,000 budget
- Used FiLMIC Pro app, a video app (to control focus, aperture and color temperature, and capture video clips at higher bit-rates)
- Used non-actors whose lived experience matched the characters’ (real life trans SWers) who were from LA.
- Also casted thru IG & Vine, and found songs for the score thru Soundcloud.
Tangerine Synopsis: Tangerine is a comedy that focuses on Alexandra (Taylor) and Sin-Dee (Rodriguez), two Black transgender prostitutes thrown into one wild day in LA when Sin-Dee finds out her boyfriend/pimp Chester (The Wire’s James Ransone) had been cheating on her with a “fish” (a cisgender woman) while she was in jail.