Author Archives: Ralph

FILMED APRIL 2013 PROLOG INT.  LIVING ROOM  –  DAY It is the home of my brother, Erv, on Manor Drive in Mason City, Iowa. I was visiting from the west coast and was staying with my mother, who lived just … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 Several weeks into our preproduction period for THE RIGHT REGRETS I was talking to my brother on the telephone, giving him the latest on our search for a porch. In the background I heard my sister-in-law call … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 A restaurant was the location for our sixth and final day of filming before having a day off.  Since the page count for that location was a mere 1 7/8 pages, the original schedule issued two months … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 If I were to describe Marlyn Mason’s personality as being scintillatingly gregarious, I could be accused of making a gross understatement. During her frequent visits to Carmel she takes a daily walk through the village. With a … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 If the opening of a show is of the utmost importance, it goes without saying that the closing has to be that “utmost” carried to the nth degree. Miss Mason in her script had provided me the … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 For me the first major hurdle on any show I direct is the opening. This was true when, fresh out of the Pasadena Playhouse, I directed theatre, and it was something I recognized very early in my … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 For a change the weather forecaster delivered what he had predicted, and on our third day of filming, Thursday, April 4, the rains came. The brutal fact that the contretemps of permission to film at the lake … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 Our second day of filming on THE RIGHT REGRETS began the same way as the first day -– the cast and crew met at a parking lot (this time the Safeway’s in mid-Carmel Valley), to be led … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 Of the several locations we were faced with finding, the one that concerned me most was the mountain cabin with a nearby lake. I didn’t have a clue as to where in the area we would find … Continue reading →

FILMED APRIL 2013 WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING! How many times I heard that during the two months we prepped THE RIGHT REGRETS. But I wasn’t sure the world of independent filmmaking I was becoming involved in was … Continue reading →