Episode #022 - Cooper Flannigan

On this week’s episode, we go into the challenges and lessons of filming a musical with Moondance director, Cooper Flannigan. This is week three of Director’s Month on the podcast.

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  • It’s hard enough to direct a musical, but imagine writing it and composing the music after thinking it was not going to be one in the first place. That is what today’s guest had to go through. Moondance director Cooper Flannigan is our guest on this episode of Spokes, and he goes into his process of creating this film, as well as some of the challenges including distribution and changing release plans due to the Coronavirus.

  • Moondance is now on Amazon Prime Video.

• Talking Points

  • Cooper’s path to filmmaking

  • Adjusting to the situation on-set

  • Why directing and why it wasn’t his initial career

  • How Moondance wasn’t originally a musical and how it turned into one

  • The process of writing Moondance

  • Assembling a team to create a film

  • Funding the project

  • The Pre-Production Process

  • The imperfect on-set situations

  • Planning post-production

  • Making the musical numbers

  • Distribution

  • The biggest lesson learned from the production

• Social Media

  • Cooper

    • Facebook: Squatch Film

    • IG: cooperflannigan, squatchfilm

    • IMDb: Cooper Flannigan

    • Link: Squatch Film

  • Moondance

    • IMDb

    • Facebook: Moondance Movie