P2 Continued...

Again, scheduling has been the most difficult thing so far, but I am more than impressed with our cast and crew once filming began Saturday. The actors, though tired and holiday weary, were very professional. We had two audio guys that never complained even when the weather turned "chilly". We also had great luck with craigslist, finding an older actor who made the set light-hearted to say the least. It seemed very unusual directing a police officer - telling him to say this and do that. It was like we were telling him how to do his job. I even think Kelly said something like, "well they usually do it like this on COPS". The officer also made it clear that he didn't want to end up on youtube. That scene was a lot of fun. As Kelly said, we have two big filming nights ahead of us (tonight and tomorrow). Anxious to start editing.

So Far So Grood

We wrapped the first scene (not the first scene, but the first to shoot) on Friday...pretty pleased.  If the rest goes this smooth we'll be sitting pretty by the end.  Looks really cool on camera, everything from the wardrobe to the performance to the location.  All the big stuff is still on the horizon, but it feels damn good to break soil on production.  Three days of filming left this week at four locations.  Here goes...

Student group unveils 'Grove Lake' to audience of 115 in Indianapolis - NEWS

Student group unveils 'Grove Lake' to audience of 115 in Indianapolis - NEWS

HURRAY!

Tori and I work very well together. It would be funny though if she posted a blog stating differently. She focuses a lot on direction, blocking, and shots. Whereas, I coach the actor on character choices, objectives, and what makes them look good physically. We both take cameras to shoots, and we both get very nice shots. Everyone is wonderful to work with including audio, main actors, extras, and businesses. The only thing that I can see us stressing over is the actor's schedule (surprise!). However, I think that everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end... 

P2

Project Two is going well, but with about half of the film shot, it is still going. Due to our actors' schedules, it has been difficult to setup nights for filming. Our first night of filming was Saturday from 8:30 PM to 4:00 AM in Fishers. We got nearly all of the outdoor scenes shot, but lighting at night was quite a challenge. For a few establishing shots, I climbed around on the roof of my parents house. When you look up at a roof from the ground, the angle doesn't seem so steep. When you get up there with the loose tiny rocks that make up the shingles, its all pretty much just slipping around and falling toward your desired destination. I didn't die, and the camera survived too. We also shot a scene with a police officer and cruiser. It was a lot of fun. We still have quite a bit of work ahead of us, but the footage looks great. We have really set a nice pace with the filming technique which we can compound with editing. Two more nights of filming, Monday and Tuesday, then we should be done. I look forward to not stressing about filming anything for a few weeks.

Finally Under Way

After tons and tons of scheduling disasters... Last night we had our first shoot and I will be honest, it went quite well. Everyone seemed to work well together and we seemed to get a lot done. Unfortunately our rough-cut is going to be nothing to write home about, but I feel a lot better knowing that we have some form of a start to the video. This week, we are going to shoot for two nights and then we will be done and it will be on to audio post. Needless to say I will be real happy when this week is over!

P2 Filming

Last night we had our first shoot for project 2. It went really well. We shot 3 scenes with limited amount of time. It has been a very big struggle to work around the main actress's schedule. I'm sure that I've mentioned it in blogs before. Brad and I just turned in our Rought Cut. Sorry, but there's only three scenes out of 9. It was all we could put together with one night of filming. Considering Spring Break and out leading lady's New York trip we were strapped for time. I never fail though. The cut to time with be the way it should be, the date that its do. I feel pretty confident that my team and I can get the job done. I apologize for the weak rough cut. We just need a little more time.

First Day

Even though we're just a bit behind, this is going a long a lot better than P1 which, by the way, still isn't finished. We're doing ADR for that on Tuesday.

We finished the first day of filming. It went alright, I think. I'm sitting here in my room right now editing a few things.  So many takes.  Why must I do so many takes? I think it's better in the end because there are so many options to choose from but jeez, it's a lot of tape to go through (3 pack of Sony tapes at Fry's for $10.00!).

So far, we've only filmed the office scenes with Joel and we should get the Frankie, outdoor scenes, and copier scene filmed pretty soon. We're not going to have a completed rough cut to turn in tomorrow, but we might have a little something.  Maybe. We'll see. 

Jerry from the audio class was great. I hope he can help us out again next time.  

Antz

Our shoot went well this weekend. It's always a challenge to work with live animals and still get the intended shots. Besides our goof with our audio while using the car mounts, everything seem to go quite smoothly. Our rough cut is very rough since half of our dialogue is currently inaudible, but should turn out nicely by the final cut.

I swear.

Between school and bedtime 6 year-olds don't have the time man. Kindergardeners really need to get their stuff together.

Well, we're right in the middle of everything. We won't have a rough cut to show. There's just not enough shot for a cohesive story. We didn't get to shoot over the weekend because of Easter. We have the middle.

I really don't like pushing everything back, but what can you do? I just don't want the Cut-to-time to be a rough cut.

Soundtrack I'm in talks with an Music Engineering Technology student to do the music for this piece and redo the music for the first.

All and all this is a lot of fun. Just wish people were being paid so i wouldn't feel bad about being so demanding.

-Andy

Lucky Lucky, You're So Lucky

Just finished the rough cut of Lucky. Oh, and just finished shooting it today too. 7am call time is the best! We worked hard, and got some great results. And editing was a breeze. Go key commands.

Everything is pretty good except NONE of the audio for the car-mount shots works. It's all wind. That was a stupid mistake. Really stupid. I'm good at reading lips though, so I think we'll be okay for ADR. We just may need to take our time on it.

Cheers.

We'll See.

Things appear to be going okay. I feel sort of bad for the other teams and all their actor problems... other than Stevie going home this weekend, we really haven't had issues actor-wise. The hardest part, I think, will be this next week, because we still have a good amount of stuff we need to shoot for cut-to-time, so scheduling and getting kickass footage is key.

We also got our audio teams... unfortunately we don't have my team from the last film (they were a lot of fun), but everyone's stuff sounded pretty good last time so as long as there's good communication we'll be fine, but Kelly's in our audio team so I'm not concerned 'cause he understands our side of things.