QUILTBAGS is a web series which explores sexuality through dramatized scenes with a variety of fascinating characters. You never know who might show up, or what they might want.

If you are new to QUILTBAGS, please scroll down and watch Episode 1, “Little Pitchers”, which will properly introduce the series and give you our wonderful theme song. Episodes 1 and 4 are the setup for this episode (episodes 2 and 3 take us on a detour with Walter and Jake). Please don’t forget to register so that you are notified of new episodes.

In this episode, Vivian finally gets to meet a potential sex partner of the feminine gender.  This is the first time we see Lily, and I’d really like to know how you feel about her.

This is the end of the Becker’s story arc for a while.  If all goes well we’ll introduce a whole new cast of characters for the next episode – Frank, his husband Rod, and their 94 year old adopted grandmother with dementia.  Gonna be some fun.
-Zale

This episode was written by Zale Dalen, with contributions from Ruth Anderson and Tim Johnson, none of which matters because most of the dialogue hit the editing room floor, as we used to say when that is actually what happened.  Now of course it just sits in a file that doesn’t get seen.

J. Douglas Dodd came over late at night to give me another set of eyeballs on the cut and lay on the tinkly seduction piano music.  Thanks Doug.

Camera by Zale Dalen
Sound by Zale Dalen with help from Bill Wolverton
Script assistance by Sharon Fulton
Vivian Becker as usual played by Ruth Anderson
Lily Lederhosen played by Suki Davis

Big thanks to Tim Hortons for letting us shoot in their restaurant.

“QUILTBAGS” is a web series which explores sexuality through dramatized scenes with a variety of fascinating characters. You never know who might show up, or what they might want.

If you are new to QUILTBAGS, please scroll down and watch Episode 1, “Little Pitchers”, which will properly introduce the series and give you our wonderful theme song, then Episode 2, “Meddling” which  is the setup for this one.  And please don’t forget to register so that you are notified of new episodes.

This episode is short, but you do get to meet the amazing Nicole Busby, who plays Sarah, wife of Jonathan, mother of Jake, daughter in law to Walter and Vivian.  I love what she did with this scene.  What a punim the woman has.  So expressive.

We’ve been shooting episodes out of order, as actors and circumstances become available.  I wish I could show you what we have waiting for release, but you’ll just have to wait.

Every time we get our act together sufficiently to film an episode, we get a bit tighter and learn a bit more.  With this one we had Dana doing his magic with the sound directly into a laptop, so our sound problems have been solved.  I learned not to say a line until I’m settled in position, so as to not lock in the cutting point.

And here’s a perfect example of how a very small thing can ruin a wide shot.  I’ve known actors do do this kind of thing intentionally, to force the editor to use the close up.  But that’s not the kind of actor I want to work with again, and not what I was doing.  I was simply unconscious.

Note to self: Don’t twiddle thumbs in a wide shot, especially when holding hands above genitalia.

This Sunday we’ll be marching in the Victoria Pride Parade, waving a banner for the series and handing out cards with the URL.  If you are going to be there, say hi.

Please stay tuned.  Register so you are notified of new episodes, and please please please leave a comment.  We live for your comments. -Zale

“Quiltbags” is a web series which explores sexuality through dramatized scenes with a variety of fascinating characters. You never know who might show up, or what they might want.

This is epic, historic, hopefully not anti-climactic.  Here’s “Little Pitchers”, the first episode of Quiltbags the Web Series:  

This episode stars Ruth Anderson as Vivian Becker and Dave Peniuk as Johnathan Becker, her son.

Written and directed by Tim Johnson
Camera:  Tim Johnson
Second Camera:  Zale Dalen
Set dec:  Nicole Busby
Editor:  Tim Johnson

When I was a child, “Little pitchers have big ears.” was parental code for “Don’t talk about that.  The kids are listening.”  The phrase is in a John Prine song (“Sam Stone”), but I’m not sure it’s common usage anymore.  Haven’t heard it for years.

There’s been a huge amount of inertia to overcome to get to this point.  I suppose the difference between working inside the film and television industry and the way we work is that the industry worker is being paid to spend eight or ten hours a day on the job.  We work for the love of it, for the fun of it, for the fame and glory to come.  There’s no money to motivate people to show up.  We all have lives.  Hence the inertia.

Of course, an “industry” production has its own source of inertia.  Usually this results from trying to find the money, which can take months or years.  We don’t have to deal with that, so maybe it all balances out.  We certainly enjoy being free of the micromanagement that industrial production entails. And if there’s one thing I hate it’s a pitch session.
– Zale

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