March 27, 2009 by me.

For those of you just starting out, this is always important. Don’t really recommend mailing yourself the scripts for the postmark; this won’t guarantee you legal protection in a court of law. So yeah, the first thing is to register your concept and script with the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) as well as with the Library of Congress. Still glad we took care of that both before and after we started production. Also, a lawyer helps. If you can’t afford one just yet, we recommend Lawyers For the Creative Arts. They offer pro bono work for early career artists.

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March 26, 2009 by me.

With “Wingmen” being a TV series about 5 Asian-American men living in Chicago (that’s the sweetened condensed sound-bite), our thought is to have each episode’s main story centered around a different lead each week and the other four connected via a different (albeit somewhat related) subplot. Other themes we’d like to explore are the nuances and subtleties of what it means to be an Asian-American man at home, at work, in the community, with their Wingmen and non-Wingmen friends, with potential love interests, with their families, etc.

Anyway, as we hear more from our contacts, we’ll let you know.

Signing off for now,

Marie

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March 12, 2009 by me.

Got our latest clips up on our site now, so if you can check them out if you’d like. Also, don’t forget to check out our other clips at metacafe.com (search engine — “Wingmen” of course!). And maybe we should’ve named our earlier karaoke scene the “calendar guy scene…” Guess some viewers have been afraid of potentially bad karaoke singing — sorry, but nope.

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March 4, 2009 by me.

For those of you in the know about Chicago hotspots, especially with regard to the Asian-American scene, you may recognize our karaoke place as being in actuality Vision Nightclub. I believe I’ve mentioned in previous posts about approaching 2 or 3 different businesses before we were given permission and clearance for each of our locations.

This was especially true for our karaoke scenes as either the businesses we approached didn’t think 1) our shoot would get in the way of their business dealings nor grant them enough exposure to make the shoot worthwhile or 2) wanted a rental that was way beyond our budget.

But thanks to Joe Vongkaysone, Sang Lee and everyone at Vision Nightclub, we were able to convert their spot to a karaoke spot for 3 of our scenes, on a Sunday afternoon and evening. Sadly though, we had no chance to shoot them on Saturday night.  Too crowded for our cast, crew and equipment. After all, that’s where the beautiful and chic-looking Asian-American gentlemen and ladies of our fair city go to see and be seen…

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