Monday, May 31, 2010

What do you do?

What do you do when an actor wears the wrong glasses to a shot (actually he couldn't find the ones he wore before)?  You have to edit the footage to look like the original glasses.


Here's a shot from the main shooting day.

Here's a shot done a week later that got forgotten

Here is my attempt to make the new glasses look like the old glasses.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

A Huge Day

Had my longest shooting day ever.  Started at 8 in the morning to be let into my location, returned at about 10to15 after 9 and didn't leave again until 9:30 pm.  Very long day but very worth it.  I guess that's how alot of the pros do it.
We shot 3 different scenes, 1 that is earlier in the movie involving a politician giving a press conference.  We didn't plan on shooting this scene, but there was a perfect place in our shooting location (a local skating rink) that made it hard to resist.
The other 2 scenes were late in the movie.
Did all kinds of shots.  Tripod, my hand held rig, used my crane which is always cool but sucks to transport, and even got to use my track dolly.
 Everyone did great.  Thanks to Bradd, Matt, Sonny, Danny, Janine, Amy, Natalie, and even Barbara who I think had any intention of being in a movie but played along just the same.  Thank you, you did great.

Matt takes a break.



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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Movie set with lighting.



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Movie set under construction.



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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.