Post-Update:
So after Tristan and I finished logging and uploading all the material I had the wonderful job of organizing the project film and labeling every shot. Because Tristan wasn’t familiar with the movie nearly as much as I was it became my job so that it would go faster. It took my 3 full 10 hour days to label all 700+ items on the 36 tapes. Sigh. But we started editing the picture together 3 days ago and have about 20 min assembled. I’ve got scenes 31-61 put together and Tristan doing speratic things in the 200’s. I’ve showed it to a couple of people and they were very impressed. It’s been hard to balance all this stuff because all I want to do is work on the movie and not do anything else for school. I’ve got write this paper for Miguel, produce the last few days of shooting, (which one is tomorrow by the way) and do a few other od jobs and such. Man. I just want to edit. I’ thought I had a final picture lock on the trailer on Friday. Crystal said she was very impressed and told me herself that it looked like a lock and all I needed was a scratch track. I didn’t want to do that but I put some crappy free online music to it for the final viewing for class. The class liked it a lot but had a lot of problems with it visually. Even dan had problems and it frustrated me because I thought I had it locked. But tom can’t start on the score till the break and I don’t plan on putting it out until February anyway. so whatever. I want to put a teaser out by the end of the week but am worried about the time to put it together. I’ll do my best. Truth be told I’d rather just work on the movie. I found out today that I got a job in the lab that I’ll be doing all my editing in! isn’t that great!? During slow times I’ll be able to work on the movie, and get paid! Of course I’d have to stop if someone needed help with something because that’s my job but still. It’s a really really good thing. I’m waiting to here from Kelly Byke if she’ll take on an independent study with me next semester as the marketing director for the film. She’ll be amazing if I can get her. Tristan has a petition at school for an overload so he can get 3 credit hours for post-production supervisor. I had another student call me about the position but I wasn’t sure he was aware of what I was asking for and I emailed him with the details. He hasn’t responded yet with whether or not he’s still interested. Kenny and I did a little photo shoot last night for the teaser poster. He’s already got drafts done and will be sending me a final by the end of the night of which I release on the site and on myspace and facebook tonight. So far it looks great.
12/6/06
12/5/06
Shooting Day 4
Production Day 4
Monday, Oct 2nd
The Police Car
The fourth day of shooting was our first day with our police car. One of the things we needed to get to use it on campus was a mall pass; at least this is what the police told me. Usually a mall pass was for parking on the mall. We wanted to just drive down the mall. But whatever. So Danielle and I looked into getting a mall pass and it turned out that only departments could request them. So we had Miguel request a mall pass for a project his students were doing and we got a mall pass. We were pretty worried about it but it turned out to be an easy thing. We picked up the pass on Monday, the day we were going to use it. This was also our first day shooting at the Frat house, which was a friend of mines house. We were starting what tonight what would end up a trend through out production: only shooting half a scene in one night and shooting the rest later. We were only going to shoot with the police car. If the car wasn’t necessary in the shot, I wasn’t going to shoot it. So like the scene when the guys at the frat house are rescued by the cops, we were going to shoot the first half of that on a later night and do the second half on day 4 with our police car. That way we utilize the police car as it was expensive (in our terms) to rent. Well, because it was a police car and because we were going to use it and the emergency lights in a residential area I decided to let the local police as well as the campus police know where we were and what we were doing. Dan showed up to load the stuff and Danielle and I went to the two stations. 5 o’clock traffic was terrible and when I got the local police station…there was a LINE! Literally I was fourth in line to just turn in a letter letting the police know where I was and what I was doing. I’ve never seen a line in the front lobby of a police station, but I was fourth! Grrr. Anyway, I ended up being 30min late to the shoot. I had made a big mistake in calling crew and cast at the same time and so when I got there half the cast was already there just hanging around. Thankfully Tyler was a good host. So we started shooting and the footage was good but it was taking for ever. We ended up moving to campus very late and poor Danielle was going insane because all the cast and crew kept getting parking tickets. Also, it didn’t make sense to set up at the MU when we were just going to move to the other side of campus so we had to call the rest of the cast coming at later call times to meet us where we were. Yeah, they couldn’t find it. Then Danielle had to go get some food for everyone. She had a hard day this day. We set up on one of the side walks and it took like 40min to set up a shot. Poor Akshay was going insane trying to get people to go faster. Kenny had his 2nd assistant on tonight, Joe something. He was really good. But for some reason he never helped us again after that night. I think Dan might have yelled at him and he got pissed or something. Not sure what happened. Anyway. We took a break and ate some KFC. It was probably one of our better catered nights. Mostly through out the shoot we just had dominos. So we had also scheduled this day according to Colin’s schedule. Most of the cast and crew don’t know this but the initial schedule was done to get Colin in the movie. It’s big part and so we did as many of his scenes as we could every night for the first 2 weeks of shooting because that was the only time he was going to be in the valley. We didn’t get to our next location till probably midnight. The last thing we had schedule for that night was the scene with the sorority sisters in the parking garage. This was our first night with Kristin Kelley. It would be our second night with Ali. Well, Jamie McKeel is in the scene and she got into a car accident (small fender-bender) on her way over and couldn’t leave the site of the accident and ended up not coming out at all. And Ali got really sick and had to go to the hospital earlier that night so she couldn’t shoot either. Well we got what we could with the other 2 girls and officer price and called it a night. Noel was nice enough to let us use her car for Alaska’s. I had also hauled David, Colin, and Jon (for his Van) out for shooting that night but couldn’t because of what happened to the girls. Oh well. Guess we’ll have to do the scene before Colin leaves on a different night and bring the cop car back again for another day. Maybe we could cram it into the second day of shooting with the vehicle. Over all I was very happy with the footage but it was hard day schedule wise. Danielle had a hard day too. We only shot about %50 of what I wanted to get done. It was looking more and more like the schedule was going to change from 16 days to longer. Especially with those extra tunnels scenes hanging over our heads. Well, Tuesday was our first day off and I spent the entire day in the computer lab and extended the shoot from 16-20 days. I spent all day on the phone calling actors, crew, and locations to make sure we could make it work. I gave an extra day in the dorms and broke the hardest days in two. I did this mainly because we couldn’t shoot more than 5 pages a day, which is what we’d shot for the first 4 days. But we did have 20 pages in the can. Which is a great feeling.
Monday, Oct 2nd
The Police Car
The fourth day of shooting was our first day with our police car. One of the things we needed to get to use it on campus was a mall pass; at least this is what the police told me. Usually a mall pass was for parking on the mall. We wanted to just drive down the mall. But whatever. So Danielle and I looked into getting a mall pass and it turned out that only departments could request them. So we had Miguel request a mall pass for a project his students were doing and we got a mall pass. We were pretty worried about it but it turned out to be an easy thing. We picked up the pass on Monday, the day we were going to use it. This was also our first day shooting at the Frat house, which was a friend of mines house. We were starting what tonight what would end up a trend through out production: only shooting half a scene in one night and shooting the rest later. We were only going to shoot with the police car. If the car wasn’t necessary in the shot, I wasn’t going to shoot it. So like the scene when the guys at the frat house are rescued by the cops, we were going to shoot the first half of that on a later night and do the second half on day 4 with our police car. That way we utilize the police car as it was expensive (in our terms) to rent. Well, because it was a police car and because we were going to use it and the emergency lights in a residential area I decided to let the local police as well as the campus police know where we were and what we were doing. Dan showed up to load the stuff and Danielle and I went to the two stations. 5 o’clock traffic was terrible and when I got the local police station…there was a LINE! Literally I was fourth in line to just turn in a letter letting the police know where I was and what I was doing. I’ve never seen a line in the front lobby of a police station, but I was fourth! Grrr. Anyway, I ended up being 30min late to the shoot. I had made a big mistake in calling crew and cast at the same time and so when I got there half the cast was already there just hanging around. Thankfully Tyler was a good host. So we started shooting and the footage was good but it was taking for ever. We ended up moving to campus very late and poor Danielle was going insane because all the cast and crew kept getting parking tickets. Also, it didn’t make sense to set up at the MU when we were just going to move to the other side of campus so we had to call the rest of the cast coming at later call times to meet us where we were. Yeah, they couldn’t find it. Then Danielle had to go get some food for everyone. She had a hard day this day. We set up on one of the side walks and it took like 40min to set up a shot. Poor Akshay was going insane trying to get people to go faster. Kenny had his 2nd assistant on tonight, Joe something. He was really good. But for some reason he never helped us again after that night. I think Dan might have yelled at him and he got pissed or something. Not sure what happened. Anyway. We took a break and ate some KFC. It was probably one of our better catered nights. Mostly through out the shoot we just had dominos. So we had also scheduled this day according to Colin’s schedule. Most of the cast and crew don’t know this but the initial schedule was done to get Colin in the movie. It’s big part and so we did as many of his scenes as we could every night for the first 2 weeks of shooting because that was the only time he was going to be in the valley. We didn’t get to our next location till probably midnight. The last thing we had schedule for that night was the scene with the sorority sisters in the parking garage. This was our first night with Kristin Kelley. It would be our second night with Ali. Well, Jamie McKeel is in the scene and she got into a car accident (small fender-bender) on her way over and couldn’t leave the site of the accident and ended up not coming out at all. And Ali got really sick and had to go to the hospital earlier that night so she couldn’t shoot either. Well we got what we could with the other 2 girls and officer price and called it a night. Noel was nice enough to let us use her car for Alaska’s. I had also hauled David, Colin, and Jon (for his Van) out for shooting that night but couldn’t because of what happened to the girls. Oh well. Guess we’ll have to do the scene before Colin leaves on a different night and bring the cop car back again for another day. Maybe we could cram it into the second day of shooting with the vehicle. Over all I was very happy with the footage but it was hard day schedule wise. Danielle had a hard day too. We only shot about %50 of what I wanted to get done. It was looking more and more like the schedule was going to change from 16 days to longer. Especially with those extra tunnels scenes hanging over our heads. Well, Tuesday was our first day off and I spent the entire day in the computer lab and extended the shoot from 16-20 days. I spent all day on the phone calling actors, crew, and locations to make sure we could make it work. I gave an extra day in the dorms and broke the hardest days in two. I did this mainly because we couldn’t shoot more than 5 pages a day, which is what we’d shot for the first 4 days. But we did have 20 pages in the can. Which is a great feeling.
Shooting Day 3
Production Day 3
Sunday, October 1st.
Ah, today was supposed to be the day we start with Alicia as Alaska. But she had told us a few days earlier that she couldn’t work Sunday because she was in a pageant that wouldn’t let her leave the hotel. Man, was I pissed. I mean it’s not like she had the dates a month in advance. Some how there was a miscommunication and she thought the pageant was the weekend before or something like that. Well, we’ll make due. It just makes shooting for us that much easier because it’s less for us to do. Although it means we had to bring Helen (our waitress) back for another day when she was supposed to be done after one day. It also means we have to secure the dinner location again when we were originally only going to shoot there for one day. Well, all we had scheduled for Sunday was the dinner scenes and the interior of the Rahid’s van for when Colin escapes the dorms. Well, shooting that was really easy. Jamie McKeel’s in the scenes and was a real trooper because she was sick and I begged her to come out and do it seeing as our schedule was so tight. I got to meet her mom. We used Jonathan Baranick’s Van which I had always planned on using because of the kidnapping scenes. The Van stuff went well and was great to start working with the rest of the cast. Up until that point we had mostly only worked with the Tyler, Jeremy, and Daniel characters. But tonight we got to work with the whole cast because everyone eats at the dinner through out some portion of the night. The location was great. The closed at 8pm and we started rolling camera at 9pm. The crew worked great together and we also had a fool cast of extras thanks to a few friends of mine that rounded some people up. From the last two nights of shooting I learned to be a little bit more conservative with my shot list. Each scene had no more than 4 shots and a lot of them were very similar. We did move around a lot though to make the dinner scenes stand out from one another. For example we had the cops at the bar and Will and Rahid at a booth. Helen did a great job and the other actors chemistry was starting to come out. The extras ended up staying till midnight and were sooooo awesome. We ended up feeding them to try and keep them in the seats. Thankfully it worked and none of our dinner scenes look sparse. It’s a packed house all night. There were some conflicts in the crew and some internal politics that I had to deal with but that comes with any game. The best thing to do when people are butting heads is keep the peace. As a producer you have to keep the peace. I’d say that over all Day 3 of production was by far our best day of shooting. My shot list was much more doable, the crew worked great, we had lots of extras, the acting was good,…and WE MADE OUR DAY!!! Yeah! First time in 3 days of shooting we made our day. It was great. Very good. Yippee. I was stoked.
Sunday, October 1st.
Ah, today was supposed to be the day we start with Alicia as Alaska. But she had told us a few days earlier that she couldn’t work Sunday because she was in a pageant that wouldn’t let her leave the hotel. Man, was I pissed. I mean it’s not like she had the dates a month in advance. Some how there was a miscommunication and she thought the pageant was the weekend before or something like that. Well, we’ll make due. It just makes shooting for us that much easier because it’s less for us to do. Although it means we had to bring Helen (our waitress) back for another day when she was supposed to be done after one day. It also means we have to secure the dinner location again when we were originally only going to shoot there for one day. Well, all we had scheduled for Sunday was the dinner scenes and the interior of the Rahid’s van for when Colin escapes the dorms. Well, shooting that was really easy. Jamie McKeel’s in the scenes and was a real trooper because she was sick and I begged her to come out and do it seeing as our schedule was so tight. I got to meet her mom. We used Jonathan Baranick’s Van which I had always planned on using because of the kidnapping scenes. The Van stuff went well and was great to start working with the rest of the cast. Up until that point we had mostly only worked with the Tyler, Jeremy, and Daniel characters. But tonight we got to work with the whole cast because everyone eats at the dinner through out some portion of the night. The location was great. The closed at 8pm and we started rolling camera at 9pm. The crew worked great together and we also had a fool cast of extras thanks to a few friends of mine that rounded some people up. From the last two nights of shooting I learned to be a little bit more conservative with my shot list. Each scene had no more than 4 shots and a lot of them were very similar. We did move around a lot though to make the dinner scenes stand out from one another. For example we had the cops at the bar and Will and Rahid at a booth. Helen did a great job and the other actors chemistry was starting to come out. The extras ended up staying till midnight and were sooooo awesome. We ended up feeding them to try and keep them in the seats. Thankfully it worked and none of our dinner scenes look sparse. It’s a packed house all night. There were some conflicts in the crew and some internal politics that I had to deal with but that comes with any game. The best thing to do when people are butting heads is keep the peace. As a producer you have to keep the peace. I’d say that over all Day 3 of production was by far our best day of shooting. My shot list was much more doable, the crew worked great, we had lots of extras, the acting was good,…and WE MADE OUR DAY!!! Yeah! First time in 3 days of shooting we made our day. It was great. Very good. Yippee. I was stoked.
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