people…real people in bad situations, but they’re not that different from the rest of us. They face the challenges we all face, only under different circumstances.
A few years back producer Mean Gene and I (Jonathan Straiton, The Two Plates Writer/Director) produced a music video for hip hop artists, Assassin and Ambush, and that is where we met music producer Roderick Smith, Jr. We shared a mutual love of movies and began brain-storming plot lines. There, the theme for The Two Plates was born. Once production was a wrap on my first film Big Fish in Middlesex, I dove straight into pre-production on The Two Plates.
There was a very specific vision in mind for the filming of The Two Plates. We wanted the audience to be a part of the action without the roughness of a documentary. Test shots of both special effects and action sequences were rehearsed, filmed,