45. Starting Artists

45. Starting Artists

From The Bold Acting Podcast by Reflections from Jason Bryden's More-than-just-an-Acting-Class class in Toronto.

November 19, 2024 · 6 min

About this episode

In this episode, Jason Bryden discusses the creative process of making a short Western film with friends amidst the challenges of the current film industry.

Somehow with all that’s going on the pressure is off. I’m reminded not to be surprised. Dogs are going to bark, baker’s gonna bake and humans are going to treat each other terribly. What’s important to you? For me, for now, it’s blood. Tonight I made some fake blood. Two tablespoons of chocolate syrup, one cup of corn syrup and some red food colouring. This is for a short film, a Western, I’m making with my old friend Mike and my new friend Shelly. There is nothing going on in Film & TV so there are a lot of people and equipment just sitting around Ontario. Last Friday we went out to the BadLands of Caledon. I thought it would make an excellent location to shoot a Western but I was outnumbered. It was too muddy and too hard to get to. Shelly will be directing. She and I bonded briefly over how we were both equally annoyed by the Left, a group we both count ourselves members of. The Left these days spends all of the time getting angry at each other for not being the same kind of Left and in the meantime the Right are winning elections by the pant load. We got back into our cars and drove to Kerncliffe Park in Burlington. It’s an old quarry. We met Laney there. I’ve known her for…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Bryden

Topics covered

  • filmmaking
  • collaboration
  • artistic process
  • Western genre
  • creative challenges

Keywords

  • filmmaking
  • Western
  • short film
  • creative process
  • collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Ontario, BadLands of Caledon, Kerncliffe Park, Burlington

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