November 25, 2011: Travel, fall ill, rethink some cuts, snip, snip.
More cutaways, offscreen dialog, fold, spindle, make coherent.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011: Sound passed muster with post-production, commit to clip choices, refine edit.
Saturday, September 24, 2011: Edit, edit, edit, go away and take care of business ... come back, thump cinematic clay, pound out bubbles, repeat.
A short film about cosmic justice in an animal shelter
Friday, November 25, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
It's a wrap
We shot at NIMBYSpace in one day.
Krysti gave Sylvia a black eye. Sylvia, Jamal & Tom acted, Peggy captured. Victor focused. Tchell and Antonio said let there be light, and there was. Tefari slated, Jibron boomed. Darcel sat serenely amid his sound apparatus, which looks like like H. G. Wells's time machine. Lorelei fed us. Challenges:
-- another film shoot just outside (a post-apocalyptic zombie music video I was told of late in the game -- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - they were surprised too
- guard dog training up the street
- a helicopter circling the block for what seemed like ages - this is Oakland
You can plan the expletive out of things and still zombies happen. But it got done.
Krysti gave Sylvia a black eye. Sylvia, Jamal & Tom acted, Peggy captured. Victor focused. Tchell and Antonio said let there be light, and there was. Tefari slated, Jibron boomed. Darcel sat serenely amid his sound apparatus, which looks like like H. G. Wells's time machine. Lorelei fed us. Challenges:
-- another film shoot just outside (a post-apocalyptic zombie music video I was told of late in the game -- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - they were surprised too
- guard dog training up the street
- a helicopter circling the block for what seemed like ages - this is Oakland
You can plan the expletive out of things and still zombies happen. But it got done.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Pre-production
Storyboard, shot list, crew projections; resulting budget makes me back slowly out of the spreadsheet and rewrite script, rinse, lather, repeat.
Budgeting, crewing up, paperwork, double-checking ["Does that location have electricity? Are you sure? Well can I come check?"]
Location nailed down; made rough floor plan and video for walkthrough, to share with DP, gaffer and sound mixer.
Budgeting, crewing up, paperwork, double-checking ["Does that location have electricity? Are you sure? Well can I come check?"]
Location nailed down; made rough floor plan and video for walkthrough, to share with DP, gaffer and sound mixer.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Auditions held
Casting complete. Lucky, lucky. Three of the actors who took time to come in (thank you!) were so outstanding that the choices were easy.
Sylvia Kratins - made me forget about everyone else for that part.
Tom Cokenias - when he walked in, I assumed he must be a veteran TV actor. He owned the part from the start.
Jamal "M" Jennings - the embodiment of the role he accepted.
Fortunately they all said yes.
Sylvia Kratins - made me forget about everyone else for that part.
Tom Cokenias - when he walked in, I assumed he must be a veteran TV actor. He owned the part from the start.
Jamal "M" Jennings - the embodiment of the role he accepted.
Fortunately they all said yes.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Beginnings
Inspiration: a news item forwarded by Louis-Eric Simard: a protest in Montreal against Berger Blanc, who run the city's animal shelters.
Released into the playpen of my brain, the story mutates. A battered woman shows up at a financially strapped shelter, in search of her dog. But things are not as they seem. Yeah. I feel a film coming on. Unleash the casting notice!
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