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.