NEW Behind-the-Scenes of Once You Leave

Without You I am Lost (the making of Once You Leave) bts episode 104

In this episode see production on episode 1.04: "rite of way".  Creators Nate & Kayla discuss the story structure to this intimate chapter and the development of the Kayla character.  And more!!

produced by team member Kevin Harris, edited by Nate Locklear



Leave us a comment here, on FaceBook, YouTube or Twitter to let us know what you thought!!

NEW OYL BTS QUICKIE

Watch a short video on the making of our award-winning web series, Once You Leave

oyl bts quickie, episode 104.2: "Rachel's grave"



Let us know what you think by leaving comments on the video on YouTube or here. Thanks!!!

Once You Leave Screens in aGLIFF-Polari Film Fest Oct 7th

Once You Leave has a date, time and location for the aGLIFF-Polari Film Festival:

Sunday Oct 7th
2:45pm
Stateside at the Paramount Theatre
719 Congress Ave
AustinTheatre.org






Join creators Nate Locklear and Kayla Olson and many of the cast and crew for a special presentation of the Once You Leave series.  

AWARD WINNING WEB SERIES ONCE YOU LEAVE COMES HOME TO AGLIFF FILM FESTIVAL

BIG NEWS!! Our web series Once You Leave is the first web series ever to be selected to screen at the 25th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF).

aGLIFF 25

The festival takes place October 3-7. 2012 in Austin, TX where we will be premiering the finale of Once You Leave, episode 1.12 (and a selection of other favorite episodes).  

NEW OYL EPISODES!!

WE'RE BACK!!!  

NEW Once You Leave episodes start 
June 12, 7pm pst/ 9c 
exclusively on OneMoreLesbian.com 
and Join Once You Leave & For Now Productions during/after the premiere for a 1 Hour LIVE Twitter Chat 
follow us @OnceYouLeave & @ForNowPro
use #OnceYouLeave to chat  Tweet #OnceYouLeave

Here's the episode 1.07 teaser:

TELL YOUR PALS :) 

Once You Leave is Official Webby Honoree

Webby Awards Honoree: Drama

Once You Leave has been named as an Official Honoree for the 16th Annual Webby Awards in the category of Drama.


Creators Nate Locklear and Kayla Olson are very proud to have been awarded this honor.  


With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 US states and over 60 countries, the Official Honoree distinction is awarded to the top 10% of all work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement.







Key Facts:

The Webby Awards is the Internet's most respected symbol of success. The 16th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 US states and over 60 countries worldwide.

Our 2011 Indie Intertube Awards

We were honored to be awarded in the 2011 Indie Intertube Awards in the categories of Best Drama and Best Actress for Kayla Olson

For a detailed breakdown of all the categories we were nominated in please check out the journal "Once You Leave Nominated for 11 Indie Intertube Awards"

To jump right to the Best Actress category [click here]

To jump right to the Best Drama category [click here] and more to be written about this soon


There were so many good series nominated and awarded, we were so happy to be among them


 here is a video for the Best Webseries of 2011 by Indie Intertube

Once You Leave Nominated for 11 Indie Intertube Awards

for the full list visit: IndieIntertube.tv

Once You Leave has been nominated for 11 Indie Intertube Awards

watch the nomination video here
& the trailer for the event here


For Now Productions, Nate Locklear, Kayla Olson and the entire OYL team are honored and extremely excited.  Please support and watch all the shows nominated as well as Indie Intertube. Amazing stuff is being created and it's time it all gets recognized.




Once You Leave's nominations (scroll down or click category to go straight to section)


1. Best Transmedia Project
2. Best Sound Design (Sound Editing/Mixing: Nate Locklear, Recordist: Ken Dvorak)
3. Best Original Soundtrack (see links and video below)
4. Best Editing (Nate Locklear)
5. Best Looking Show (Cinematography) (Nate Locklear)
6. Best Additional Content
7. Best Directing in a Drama (Nate Locklear)
8. Best Writing in a Drama (Script: Nate Locklear, Story: Nate Locklear & Kayla Olson)
9. Best Actress in a Drama (Kayla Olson)
10. Best Breakout Performance (Kayla Olson)
11. Best Drama


a detailed breakdown of the work we put into the categories we were nominated for after the jump...

Why Once You Leave? Why Now? (pt. 1)

Why Once You Leave?  
Why would someone in this day and age of consumerism, short attention spans and an overall increase in cynical dissociation, create an intensely dramatic series that takes it's time in a deliberate pacing as it explores visceral moments and emotions and then house it all on the web with longer running times than the current norm (for a web series)? To answer that whopper, I think to understand the inspirations is the first step.  Two of the earliest for me (Nate) were:

Shaky Camera

Nate goes handheld for an intense scene in an
 unique location. photo by L.A. JeJeune Photography

We have had a few viewers raise issues about the handheld camera style of Once You Leave (usually referred to by them as "shaky camera") and we have a few reasons why we used this style:

ONE shooting handheld can put the director/camera operator in the middle of the action with the actors and make it possible to capture anything at any moment- to be highly mobile is a must for a story like this.

TWO the entire series stays with the lead actress, Kayla, the entire time. We never leave her. We are in her world and her world is chaotic and unsure, even crumbling in many cases.

THREE there is a lot of emotion running thru this story and the director/cameraman (Nate) felt a need to have constant movement, it's alive and breathing, there are even times where Nate used a technique he created called "drifting" where he will slightly drift or sway back-and-forth on a character that may or may not be moving.

You Can Never Go Home Again...

For Now Productions is currently in post on a 12 part series & multi-part online story called Once You Leave.  As of this post we have 6 of 12 episodes online


here is the first episode, 1.01: "you can never come home again" and below that is a preview of what's to come that's different than the trailer.





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Hello,

Welcome to the For Now Productions™ Journal.  For Now Productions™ is a film/video production company specializing in Pre, Pro and Post Production services.  Owner, Nate Locklear is a two-time Emmy® winner for his work as Co-Producer and Director of Photography on the hit Texas PBS show The Daytripper.