June 11, 2025 • 8 mins
Want to connect with Tj & Plaideau? Send us a text message.
Tj discusses a major failure on a film project and Plaideau discusses a win.
Sponsored by Jana McCaffery Attorney at Law. Have you been injured? New Orleans based actor, Jana McCaffery, has been practicing law in Louisiana since 1999 focusing on personal injury since 2008. She takes helping others very seriously and, if you are a fellow member of the Louisiana film industry and have been injured, she is happy to offer you a free consultation and a reduced fee to handle your case from start to finish. She can be reached at Support the show
Follow us on IG @nolafilmscene, @kodaksbykojack, and @tjsebastianofficial. Check out our 48 Hour Film Project short film Waiting for Gateaux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pFvn4cd1U . & check out our website: nolafilmscene.com
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to NOLA Film.
Scene with TJ and Plato.
I'm TJ and, as always, I'mPlato.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene with TJ and Plato.
I'm TJ and that is.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Plato, just call me the Fun Factory.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, you are definitely the Fun Factory.
We're just doing a shortepisode this week to bridge the
gap.
We've had quite a few guests onin the last couple of weeks.
We've both been busy withprojects and more projects to
come.
Brian just got involved with areally cool project that we
wanted to tell you a little bitabout.
(00:37):
Brian, why don't you tell themwhat we're talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Sure, thank you.
Thank you.
I can't give you any detailsyet, but if you follow me on
social media, I've been postingall kinds of collages, you know,
like different looks, differentmakeup, just having a lot of
fun with it.
A little boring, it's fun topost things.
So one of them I did, and ithad like a lot of my monster
makeup and the quote I put on it, the caption director this is
(01:01):
going to get weird and me I'm in.
Director, this is going to getweird, and me I'm in.
And so right after that, adirector reached out to me.
He had been writing a script.
We met like last year and hewrote a script with me in mind
but was kind of hesitant to letme see it, like okay, cool.
And he was inspired by thatweirdness and I said, let me
read the script.
And I did and it's great andit's weird.
That's all I can tell you.
(01:22):
So it was a real thrill.
Auditioning is fun.
It's hard, it can get to.
You feel dejected a lot, butjust somebody reaching out and
handing you over a steak youknow what I mean that real juicy
roll.
Just think your teeth into.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's really, really cool ah, that is pretty cool and
it sounded like, when you'retelling me about it offline,
that you're gonna have a prettylong time to be able to prep for
it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And are you able to say what your accent and what
you'll be speaking, or is thatNot yet?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm going to wait for him to announce it, but I get
months to work on an accent II'm pretty good with mimicry.
I've never had a role whereI've had to use it and the key
will be consistency and thisaccent I'm already pretty good
with.
I want to tell you everything,folks, I want to share, but I'm
going to be good.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And you're going to be good and you're going to wait
until it's officially out.
That makes sense, I mean yougot to be careful, right?
You don't want to.
You don't want to get scratchedfrom a project because you
talked about something too soonwould I think he's ready to
share.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We're going to do a table read once he gets everyone
cast.
And then, oh, I said thedirectors that he did.
I give it away no that's prettycool.
At our level.
Sometimes you get an indiedirector and they're just
starting out and they're atdifferent levels and it's good.
And then some are better.
I know this director has a fewmovies under his belt.
Maybe they're going to alreadyto streaming services, I've been
(02:42):
told.
I've yet to see.
So I have a good amount ofconfidence in them and I get
months to build the characterand practice and it's going to
be fun.
And then, of course, we alwaystalk about the acting.
Yes, I'm going to have my stuffplanned out, but you have to be
ready to live on the scene Onthe day.
You might think I'm going tosay it like this, so you know
(03:09):
you try not to do that.
And oh, the other actor comesup and they're happy.
Well, I can't be.
You know, you son of a bitch,but maybe I could be.
You know what I'm saying.
So I'm very excited to reallybuild a character.
Usually might have a couple ofweeks, you know what I mean.
But this long of a process isgoing to be very interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah it's.
I mean it is good when you'vegot a good bit of time to prep.
I have only used an alternateaccent in one project so far.
It was a project with MattCarroll.
I had to do an Irish accent andI worked on that, had to learn
a monologue, and once I workedon it and picked up the
intricacies of that accent, it'skind of like being on a ship.
(03:41):
When you come back to shore youstill feel your sea legs.
For a little while it was kindof the same thing.
For a couple of days after theproject I still had that accent
stuck in my system and Iactually listened back to an
episode of the podcast that werecorded right after that and I
can hear just a little bit ofthat accent coming out because
(04:02):
it was still there around alittle bit.
It was a fun one.
I've had to use accents in acouple of auditions.
One was a Yiddish accent, and Ijust wasn't able to pull it off
.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I tried, just couldn't do it.
You have the beard for it.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty true.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Cool.
So what's been going on for you?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I just wrapped a seven and seven another project
with Matt.
We had a pretty small cast andno crew to speak of.
Matt and I both ran the camera.
That was my first time evertrying that.
We tried to get different DPsto be involved with the project
(04:44):
but people had prior commitmentsand just couldn't lock anyone
down.
So Matt said we'll do itourselves.
And we did it ourselves, madesome mistakes and you know.
We learned from that and moveon.
Some of the feedback wasn'tvery positive about it, but
that's okay, that's part of theprocess.
Everybody's not going to likeeverything you do all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know, it is what it is.
We had a good time doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And for me trying to learn that stuff being behind
the camera.
I had a really really I mean Ihad a lot of screen time too,
but I had a really good timebeing behind the camera trying
to figure that stuff out andhopefully next time I'll be able
to correct for the stuff thatwe didn't get right.
It is one of those things.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, and it's a competition.
It's not like you had a lot oftime to prepare and gather your
equipment.
It's you run and gun, you usewhat you got and you know, I saw
it.
I thought the acting was great.
I know what you're talkingabout, the problems and the
story was great.
You just got bit in the butt bythe camera buck.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, it was just it was an error with the particular
type of camera that we wereshooting on In certain low light
scenarios.
It looked good to us in themoment and after the fact I
don't know if it was a renderingerror or what.
There was just one scene inparticular that the image
quality was it left a lot to bedesired.
(06:08):
So we're going to figure thatout and get it right next time.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's all you can do .
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is all you can do.
What matters is I feel like weput out a really good story.
Matt came up with a great storyand I think it's an important
one to tell right now.
Like I said, we kept a smallcast and it was fun.
I had a really good time on set.
There was no drama.
We came in, we got to businessand we had a week to do it.
(06:38):
We shot over three days andthen the rest of the time was
spent assembling and editing,and you know I enjoy doing those
projects.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And you got it done with one minute to spare, and I
mean uploaded to the site forthe festival.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, it was very, very last minute by the time we
got the link submitted, but wedid make it in under the wire.
So the way it works it's like a48.
We've talked about it before onthe podcast.
With this one you have a weekto do it.
You get the day that they putout the information, the start
(07:13):
day.
You get the line of dialoguethat you have to use, a prop
that has to appear in the film,and that one differs from the 48
because you can pick your genreahead of time.
You don't have to pull it outof a hat like you do for the 48.
But the other rules still apply.
You can't write before the dayof the project, but you can
(07:35):
start assembling people that aregoing to work crew, you can
start assembling people that aregoing to be cast and you can
look for locations and assembleequipment.
So I don't know, it was fun.
I learned a lot and, movingforward, I want to learn a lot
more.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, definitely, I'm speechless oh.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't.
Yeah, actually I do usuallyhave that effect on people.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's not you Work and my schedule is caught up to me
a little bit.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, so it's been super hotand it's only June and it's
going to yeah, it's going to getworse, but we just wanted to do
a quick episode to bridge thegap.
We have both been really tiedup with outside projects and
trying to get caught up onediting to get more episodes
released.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And we've spoken to some great guests You'll see
over the next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, we've got some cool ones coming up for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Not to diss any of our past guests.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Except that one, but we won't tell you who.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We won't tell you which one, but they know who
they are.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thanks for joining us , folks.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
We'll see you next time.
Welcome to NOLA Film.
Scene with TJ and Plato.
I'm TJ and, as always, I'mPlato.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene with TJ and Plato.
I'm TJ and that is.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Plato, just call me the Fun Factory.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, you are definitely the Fun Factory.
We're just doing a shortepisode this week to bridge the
gap.
We've had quite a few guests onin the last couple of weeks.
We've both been busy withprojects and more projects to
come.
Brian just got involved with areally cool project that we
wanted to tell you a little bitabout.
(00:37):
Brian, why don't you tell themwhat we're talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Sure, thank you.
Thank you.
I can't give you any detailsyet, but if you follow me on
social media, I've been postingall kinds of collages, you know,
like different looks, differentmakeup, just having a lot of
fun with it.
A little boring, it's fun topost things.
So one of them I did, and ithad like a lot of my monster
makeup and the quote I put on it, the caption director this is
(01:01):
going to get weird and me I'm in.
Director, this is going to getweird, and me I'm in.
And so right after that, adirector reached out to me.
He had been writing a script.
We met like last year and hewrote a script with me in mind
but was kind of hesitant to letme see it, like okay, cool.
And he was inspired by thatweirdness and I said, let me
read the script.
And I did and it's great andit's weird.
That's all I can tell you.
(01:22):
So it was a real thrill.
Auditioning is fun.
It's hard, it can get to.
You feel dejected a lot, butjust somebody reaching out and
handing you over a steak youknow what I mean that real juicy
roll.
Just think your teeth into.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's really, really cool ah, that is pretty cool and
it sounded like, when you'retelling me about it offline,
that you're gonna have a prettylong time to be able to prep for
it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And are you able to say what your accent and what
you'll be speaking, or is thatNot yet?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm going to wait for him to announce it, but I get
months to work on an accent II'm pretty good with mimicry.
I've never had a role whereI've had to use it and the key
will be consistency and thisaccent I'm already pretty good
with.
I want to tell you everything,folks, I want to share, but I'm
going to be good.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And you're going to be good and you're going to wait
until it's officially out.
That makes sense, I mean yougot to be careful, right?
You don't want to.
You don't want to get scratchedfrom a project because you
talked about something too soonwould I think he's ready to
share.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We're going to do a table read once he gets everyone
cast.
And then, oh, I said thedirectors that he did.
I give it away no that's prettycool.
At our level.
Sometimes you get an indiedirector and they're just
starting out and they're atdifferent levels and it's good.
And then some are better.
I know this director has a fewmovies under his belt.
Maybe they're going to alreadyto streaming services, I've been
(02:42):
told.
I've yet to see.
So I have a good amount ofconfidence in them and I get
months to build the characterand practice and it's going to
be fun.
And then, of course, we alwaystalk about the acting.
Yes, I'm going to have my stuffplanned out, but you have to be
ready to live on the scene Onthe day.
You might think I'm going tosay it like this, so you know
(03:09):
you try not to do that.
And oh, the other actor comesup and they're happy.
Well, I can't be.
You know, you son of a bitch,but maybe I could be.
You know what I'm saying.
So I'm very excited to reallybuild a character.
Usually might have a couple ofweeks, you know what I mean.
But this long of a process isgoing to be very interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah it's.
I mean it is good when you'vegot a good bit of time to prep.
I have only used an alternateaccent in one project so far.
It was a project with MattCarroll.
I had to do an Irish accent andI worked on that, had to learn
a monologue, and once I workedon it and picked up the
intricacies of that accent, it'skind of like being on a ship.
(03:41):
When you come back to shore youstill feel your sea legs.
For a little while it was kindof the same thing.
For a couple of days after theproject I still had that accent
stuck in my system and Iactually listened back to an
episode of the podcast that werecorded right after that and I
can hear just a little bit ofthat accent coming out because
(04:02):
it was still there around alittle bit.
It was a fun one.
I've had to use accents in acouple of auditions.
One was a Yiddish accent, and Ijust wasn't able to pull it off
.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I tried, just couldn't do it.
You have the beard for it.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty true.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Cool.
So what's been going on for you?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I just wrapped a seven and seven another project
with Matt.
We had a pretty small cast andno crew to speak of.
Matt and I both ran the camera.
That was my first time evertrying that.
We tried to get different DPsto be involved with the project
(04:44):
but people had prior commitmentsand just couldn't lock anyone
down.
So Matt said we'll do itourselves.
And we did it ourselves, madesome mistakes and you know.
We learned from that and moveon.
Some of the feedback wasn'tvery positive about it, but
that's okay, that's part of theprocess.
Everybody's not going to likeeverything you do all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know, it is what it is.
We had a good time doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And for me trying to learn that stuff being behind
the camera.
I had a really really I mean Ihad a lot of screen time too,
but I had a really good timebeing behind the camera trying
to figure that stuff out andhopefully next time I'll be able
to correct for the stuff thatwe didn't get right.
It is one of those things.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, and it's a competition.
It's not like you had a lot oftime to prepare and gather your
equipment.
It's you run and gun, you usewhat you got and you know, I saw
it.
I thought the acting was great.
I know what you're talkingabout, the problems and the
story was great.
You just got bit in the butt bythe camera buck.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, it was just it was an error with the particular
type of camera that we wereshooting on In certain low light
scenarios.
It looked good to us in themoment and after the fact I
don't know if it was a renderingerror or what.
There was just one scene inparticular that the image
quality was it left a lot to bedesired.
(06:08):
So we're going to figure thatout and get it right next time.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's all you can do .
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is all you can do.
What matters is I feel like weput out a really good story.
Matt came up with a great storyand I think it's an important
one to tell right now.
Like I said, we kept a smallcast and it was fun.
I had a really good time on set.
There was no drama.
We came in, we got to businessand we had a week to do it.
(06:38):
We shot over three days andthen the rest of the time was
spent assembling and editing,and you know I enjoy doing those
projects.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And you got it done with one minute to spare, and I
mean uploaded to the site forthe festival.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, it was very, very last minute by the time we
got the link submitted, but wedid make it in under the wire.
So the way it works it's like a48.
We've talked about it before onthe podcast.
With this one you have a weekto do it.
You get the day that they putout the information, the start
(07:13):
day.
You get the line of dialoguethat you have to use, a prop
that has to appear in the film,and that one differs from the 48
because you can pick your genreahead of time.
You don't have to pull it outof a hat like you do for the 48.
But the other rules still apply.
You can't write before the dayof the project, but you can
(07:35):
start assembling people that aregoing to work crew, you can
start assembling people that aregoing to be cast and you can
look for locations and assembleequipment.
So I don't know, it was fun.
I learned a lot and, movingforward, I want to learn a lot
more.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, definitely, I'm speechless oh.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't.
Yeah, actually I do usuallyhave that effect on people.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's not you Work and my schedule is caught up to me
a little bit.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, so it's been super hotand it's only June and it's
going to yeah, it's going to getworse, but we just wanted to do
a quick episode to bridge thegap.
We have both been really tiedup with outside projects and
trying to get caught up onediting to get more episodes
released.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And we've spoken to some great guests You'll see
over the next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, we've got some cool ones coming up for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Not to diss any of our past guests.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Except that one, but we won't tell you who.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We won't tell you which one, but they know who
they are.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thanks for joining us , folks.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
We'll see you next time.
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.