I've put up an edited version of the Sonny and Donnie short onto Youtube, the music has been changed and there are a few more shots in there that help build up to the climax. I prefer this version to the old one, check it out. The link is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pPo7sxhSaM
Well I managed to get out copious amounts of gear on Friday afternoon, and lugged it all back to fill up a room in the house. This morning, hoping to do some shooting today, I began to set up some lights when I realized they hadn't given me a tripod. This threw the whole weekend out, seeing how important the tripod would have been for most of my planned shots. I could do some handheld, but I don't even have our homemade steadycam at the moment. I can't believe I didn't notice the missing tripod when I carried everything down to the car, I believe I was rather tired by that stage.
So unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be able to do much until Monday... At least I have the rest of the gear, I can do some pre-emptive preparations.
Well as the days are churning along, progress on the different projects is slowly but surely coming along. It's been mostly preproduction work, and seeing as the weather has been rather miserable there hasn't been a lot of physical stuff happening at all. At the end of this week I get to secure all the gear, which of course will motivate me to begin preparations for shooting.
Apart from that no much has been happening lately, except perhaps for joining up with Facebook, which is a bizarre site. You can be on that site for quite some time messing about with stuff, but not really sure exactly what it is you're doing. Ah well, before I know it I'll be flat out again shooting movies.
Looks like August is going to be a rather productive month, with at least 2 shorts planned. It is during August that I can book out almost as much gear as I need for two weeks straight, so that will come in very handy. There's nothing worse than lugging huge amounts of kit back and forwards over a short course of a few days, especially considering the size of some things - the lighting kits, the dolly, and the newest addition to our equipment the mighty gib arm.
I've had to majorly change around my main script, but now it's a lot simpler and a better story as well. I'm still slightly stuck in terms of actors but I'll try and remedy this situation, I'm still in the process of writing the thing. As I get the gear out next week it'll all have to be sorted before then. I'm aiming for around 10 minutes worth for this short.
The second short is going to be another collaboration between Mike Steve and myself, except this time we're giving ourselves a lot more than a single afternoon to do the shooting, and are doing more planning this time too. Last time didn't go too badly but we lost our roughly written out script right before we starting shooting, which only appeared after we had finished everything @_@
I'll keep things posted of the progress for this month.
Here's the link to the youtube clip of the movie. Basically the short was done as a lighting exercise during one afternoon, and attempts a film noir styled look. It's a pity youtube doesn't have better quality as the movie looks very nice in High Definition. The running length is just under 3 minutes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=12jdbuXwLcU
Here's a short done by Mike, Steve and myself. I'll post it to Youtube once it's complete.
My two main actors have been secured, as long as I schedule and plan out the whole thing properly. The scripts approaching completion, I just had to touch up a couple of things but it should be in fit enough form to base the movie from. Most of the locations are all sorted as well, thanks to my location scouting for my previous project - takes a bit of trouble out of the whole thing. There are a few things in the movie I will have to try and work out how to do however... due to certain limitations of my locations. The time to shoot is fast approaching so everything must fall together fairly quickly. Should be good.
