Hurray

Project is coming well. Nothing new to report on, for the exception that I got lost in Muncie for the first time in my life trying to find a printing place. I'm from Cinci!!! I am almost pretty sure that my car is going to need a new under body after I graduate due to all the potholes in this great town.

Anyway, nothing new to report. All is well.

P2 continues

I am very pleased with the rough cut of Teenage Wasteland. It is still rough, and we have a small amount of shooting still to do. Overall the experience has been great, other than one crazy night that resulted in Jeff and I driving back to Muncie at about 4:30 in the morning last Wednesday. Luckily I was riding the excitement of having most of the film shot, but of course, went to sleep right when I arrived. Its a very interesting experience to watch some ideas from my imagination translated on to paper suddenly become something that everyone can see. I couldn't be happier about how this project went. Now back to the work in all my other classes that carried no weight about a week ago.

Update

Nothing really new to report. We had to push back filming to next saturday so it will be a tight squeeze next week. That's about it for my progress. It's all set up. I'm filming a little today actually.

Working hard on P2

We weren't able to get the entire film shot before the rough cut due date. I apologize for that. However, we do have about 90% of it shot -- not counting things that might need to be re-shot. Some of the scenes have turned out pretty well visually, but other not so much. While editing I noticed that certain scenes need somekind of build-up. Things that weren't in the script but I definitely have a good eye for.

We have a busy shooting schedule this week. Anything that's left over I plan on taking care of.

Rough Cut

Filming was finished last Wednesday morning at 4AM in Fishers with the exception of one small but important car scene. As a whole, everything went smoothly. Kelly's family, I think needs a special thanks to in the credits for sure; they provided food and drink to all cast and crew for three nights. We couldn't have asked for a better location. However, we did disappoint our oldest actor when we failed to fulfill his request of a small trailer with assorted goods and support (licensed masseuse, etc.).

Editing the rough cut this past week/weekend was a unique experience. We still have a lot of cleaning up to do with sound, lighting, cuts, etc. We both agree that this is a "rough" rough cut, but the pacing is definitely there.

Good stuff....

Well JD said most of what I was thinking already... things went really well this week. It's been such an amazing experience to work with the cast that we had, they truly are a very talented bunch. Scheduling was ridiculous of course, but it was completely worth it for the production that this film is turning into. We've also had some truly amazing locations that have really allowed this production to look extremely professional.
Also, and I'm not saying this just because I know he can read this, but I'm really grateful to be working with JD. He truly has a great eye as far as camera angles and he's been willing to do whatever it takes to get the shot exactly how it needs to be for the film.
Long story short: Things are good....

Almost to Post'

We're one scene away from post.  Even though schedules were a beast to work around, everyone made their times and filming went really smooth all week.  Each scene continues to increase my excitement with this project.  Everything looks like I imagined it.  I built a track/dolly this week that has yielded a couple really sexy shots.  It looks unwieldy--made of PVC pipes, aluminum triangle trim and skateboard wheels with a big ol' flat top and some 2x4s thrown in the mix, but it produces a nice smooth tracking shot.  Ladders and my Steady-Stick were also called for.  I can't express enough gratitude to our location contacts for allowing us to film and for giving us a pretty free set of reins once we started.  Got a lot of ADR work on the horizon for next week due to wind and echoes on locations, and already have someone working on the score.  

We'll show a sample of what we've got tomorrow in the rough cut.

Crackheads, TV, and Mildew Mops...

Oh man. We filmed SO MUCH this week. A couple cancellations here and there, but for the most part everything has worked the way it should have. Hopefully Andy's got every shot he wanted and we'll have minimal re-shoots next week, because that'd be AWESOME. It'll definitely be nice to have a cohesive project now, and I'm interested to see how the other teams fared with the extra week.

Outside of the technical stuff, filming this time around has been a lot of fun. Our actors and crew have been real flexible and fun to be around, which always makes a set not so stressful. And we have lots of pictures too, so I can't wait to see how those came out.

P2/P1

We haven't filmed since my last blog.  That would normally worry me, but I think we'll get it all together in this coming week.  I hope so.  We're supposed to be filming this Monday and Tuesday and hopefully that will work out.  We have about 4 more scenes to film.  I called a printing shop in the city to see if we could film there, but when Desiree went to "location scout" it (at the time he told us to come in) they had already closed. Weird.

My P1 is almost done, I think.  I think it turned out better than I remember it turning out, even though I didn't get the scenes re-filmed that needed re-filming.  The ADR was pretty painless, besides the fact that it started late because of technical difficulties.  I think Swingley said that it should be done (ADR, foley, etc.) in about 2 weeks.

Lucky Lucky, Audio is Lucky

I'm glad Sean and I have had this extra week to work on the rough cut of Lucky. I'm very worried about the audio in the car scenes though. The ADR may look a bit strange. We can't reshoot it because we borrowed the car mount from Hammer Motion Pictures. So we'll try our best.

Otherwise, not much to say. Just working on the cut to time, working on some special effects and ... looking forward to Vegas!

Much better week

I feel a lot better about our video after this week then I did this time last week. This past week we kicked butt when it comes to shooting and got it almost finished. Tonight we plan on shooting one more major scene and then all we will have to do are some minor scenes this week. Now it is a matter of making sure the actors can stay involved since we have stretched them to their limits with their shows going on and everything and then making them shoot late into the night three nights.

Hopefully this week will be a lot less stressful and life will be good!

Well, here we are again. Things seem to be going alright this week, time is always the problem though. I unfortunately had to go back and forth from home this week due to a death in the family. But hopefully our cut-to-time still works out. I am nervous about our ADR sessions ahead of us. We made a big goof in the audio when using our car camera mounts, and lost quite a bit of dialogue. I don't know for sure how hard of a fix its going to be. I am sure we can make it happen though. I hope everyone had a good week, and I look forward to seeing the roughcuts tomorrow.