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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Basically caught up
This gets me caught up to the present on the movie process. I did fly through many details in which I'm sorry. But now we will get a true blog of what is going on as it happens.
May 1st
After a long pause which consisted of costume design, starting to build a set in Bradd's shop building, and a hunt to finish casting the movie, we finally got to shooting again on May 1st.
Cast in the role of Vinni, one of the villains, is Sonny Salmons.
Cast as the leading lady, Summer Austin, is Janine Livett.
It was a very windy day unfortunately and we were plagued by audio and video trouble. But we got everything except for one green screen shot, one shot lost its video, and one lost its audio. The one that lost the video had to be reshot on May 12th.
At this point in the movie, scene 1, the opening credits, and scene 6 are mostly complete. Scenes 1,6,11,and 15 are the longest scenes and everything is downhill after those are complete. On May 22nd we work on 14 and 15. Then we are really in business.
Cast in the role of Vinni, one of the villains, is Sonny Salmons.
Cast as the leading lady, Summer Austin, is Janine Livett.
It was a very windy day unfortunately and we were plagued by audio and video trouble. But we got everything except for one green screen shot, one shot lost its video, and one lost its audio. The one that lost the video had to be reshot on May 12th.
At this point in the movie, scene 1, the opening credits, and scene 6 are mostly complete. Scenes 1,6,11,and 15 are the longest scenes and everything is downhill after those are complete. On May 22nd we work on 14 and 15. Then we are really in business.
Some random shots
There were a few days in this time period where we went to remote places to shoot shots for the credit sequence.
The first shot was just shooting Bradd's car taking a turn off of a street. Sounds easy. This guy stops by in a truck while we're shooting it and starts talking "You guys making a movie?" The first thing we thought was 'not anymore'. He dropped by twice more to check on progress.
In another credit shot I found a windy section of road between Hwy 160 and Tacopa, California. I hiked a long way up the mountain with my camera and tripod and filmed the road below. Unfortunately cell phones didn't work out there and I had to use big gestures to try to communicate to Natalie what to do with the car. It all worked out well though. Even got another car in the shot which I didn't plan, but worked out good. No hecklers in that shot either which is good.
The first shot was just shooting Bradd's car taking a turn off of a street. Sounds easy. This guy stops by in a truck while we're shooting it and starts talking "You guys making a movie?" The first thing we thought was 'not anymore'. He dropped by twice more to check on progress.
In another credit shot I found a windy section of road between Hwy 160 and Tacopa, California. I hiked a long way up the mountain with my camera and tripod and filmed the road below. Unfortunately cell phones didn't work out there and I had to use big gestures to try to communicate to Natalie what to do with the car. It all worked out well though. Even got another car in the shot which I didn't plan, but worked out good. No hecklers in that shot either which is good.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
February 27 - more of scene 1
Scene 1 mostly takes place in a crater of sorts left by a UFO. But there are quite a few shots that lead up to this point. A week after filming the crater shots, Matt Daun, Natalie (my wife and production assistant), and I shot the rest of the shots (well, most of) for scene 1 as well as some shots for the credit sequence.
Featured in this round of shooting was Matt Daun and Bradd's Ford Taurus.
Got to truly pull out my homemade camera crane for this. It worked great.
Matt did a great job both in the field and in front of the green screen. We made him run so much that he was truly out of breath and not acting in a couple shots.
Matt also sported a pretty narly fake wart for the day (as well as last week).
Here's a couple shots from the day featuring the crane in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6nkPj-xFT8
Featured in this round of shooting was Matt Daun and Bradd's Ford Taurus.
Got to truly pull out my homemade camera crane for this. It worked great.
Matt did a great job both in the field and in front of the green screen. We made him run so much that he was truly out of breath and not acting in a couple shots.
Matt also sported a pretty narly fake wart for the day (as well as last week).
Here's a couple shots from the day featuring the crane in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6nkPj-xFT8
February 20th
Shooting began on "Don't Call Me a Hero".
We found a decorative rock quarry in the mountains near Pahrump, Nevada and shot a scene involving our main character played by Matt Daun, and 4 alien creatures. Playing our aliens were:
Zachary Handy as "The Leader"
Allyssa Statz as "Teal"
Joshua Handy as "Mint"
Bradd Childress as "The Zomblehar Beast"
The costumes were created by Amy Childress with some direction and help from Natalie and Loney Childress. She did great.
We were worried about somebody driving up and flipping out when they saw aliens around. Lucky for us no one was shot (or hunted). At the time of this post this scene is pretty well wrapped up in editing and just needs soundtrack work.
We found a decorative rock quarry in the mountains near Pahrump, Nevada and shot a scene involving our main character played by Matt Daun, and 4 alien creatures. Playing our aliens were:
Zachary Handy as "The Leader"
Allyssa Statz as "Teal"
Joshua Handy as "Mint"
Bradd Childress as "The Zomblehar Beast"
The costumes were created by Amy Childress with some direction and help from Natalie and Loney Childress. She did great.
We were worried about somebody driving up and flipping out when they saw aliens around. Lucky for us no one was shot (or hunted). At the time of this post this scene is pretty well wrapped up in editing and just needs soundtrack work.
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