tee vee dinner | Hope this isn’t too broad of a question but what was the process you took to create Ska†e Bi†ches? It’s one of the sickest films I’ve seen in a while and it’s one that has stuck in my mind since I saw it. Also the costumes we’re fucking rad. Anyways, would be cool if you could answer this, hope you’re havin’ a great day ! :)

Anonymous asked: Hope this isn't too broad of a question but what was the process you took to create Ska†e Bi†ches? It's one of the sickest films I've seen in a while and it's one that has stuck in my mind since I saw it. Also the costumes we're fucking rad. Anyways, would be cool if you could answer this, hope you're havin' a great day ! :)

well im gonna tell a story about what was going on in my life etc around the time i started to make skate bitches and through that hopefully answer yr question in ways.
in november last year i moved back to melbourne from seattle to be with my partner/love of my life but we broke up the day i got back. it sucked!!! i missed all my friends and life in the pnw and was completely heart broken and had no where to live and felt pretty outta the loop of what was happening in australia (id only been gone for 6 months but shit seemed so different). a friend of mine was out of town so i got to stay in her room for that first week and i would just lye on her floor listening to friends bands and day dreaming about riding bikes and dancing and fun times and having my friends in the bands singing the songs to me lovingly trying to cheer me up. i would spend hours just dreaming up these montages, and would get pretty obsessed, so i decided that they had to be played out for me to watch with my real eyes, via film. i had no clue what so ever how to film stuff or even what to film things on or how to edit, i knew nothing. so i enrolled to go to film school and started 2 months later. i had lots of ideas of films i wanted to make but a skate witches remake ended up surfacing to the top of what i wanted to do. so i wrote the screenplay for the first scene and the synopsis in like an hour. i just really wanted to make it but couldnt really work on it til i had a room which i finally got in late february. i moved in and 4 days later had my birthday and like 2 days later started working on it. i spent the next month writting the screenplay (i hav a copy of the welcome to the dollhouse screenplay that i found in that trash that i taught myself from), talking to my friends that i wanted to be in it about it and sending them emails all the time, making up characters back stories, riding around melbourne trying to find good locations, researching camera equipment, going to everyones house who was is it to figure out outfits with them, collecting things and making things for the club house. i was pretty OTT busy. i stopped riding my bike places so i could catch the train and be able to spend that time story boarding or working on dialogue, it was my life. meanwhile school kinda sucked so i stopped going to lots of classes, i think im best self taught anyway. it was all filmed in one day (on april 1st), except for the first scene at the store which was filmed about a week after. i then had someone put final cut pro on my computer and i started watching youtube tutorials on how to use it. and ta-duh its finally done haaha.
to me i wanted the underlying theme of skate bitches to be about my experience in both the punk scene and queer scene and how judgmental and hypocritical both can be. alot of the characters are definitely based on different parts of my personality at different times in my life, so much of the dialogue is from stuff i’ve said irl hahaha. but i wanted the film to be super posi and fun and funny while touching on that other stuff and showing that sometimes people are mean but that comes from a hurt place for them and that people should be held accountable but can totally grow from that and that sometimes those “cool people” you see around n wanna be a part of so badly might not be as nice and fun as you think.