May Status Report Thread

I don't know but I just PMed 85 people making sure they all know about the extra minute. No whiney's. Basses covered.

and for your who's in list Brandon:
adepew07 is now Alex Depew and
NBCshooter is now Rezfactor
 
Well, finally... I have some good news to report!! :)

After the fiasco last Tuesday (where I had scheduled a rehearsal the guy who was both the fight choreographer and the superhero didn't show) I quickly put out a new call for a superhero and a fight choreographer. I got a couple responses on the superhero part, but nothing on the choreographer.

Then yesterday I got an e-mail from a guy who wanted to help with the choreography. Of the two that responded about being the superhero, one dropped out so it fell to the other guy by default...turns out he is a real actor (commercial, indie-film, some tv).

Well the best news is that in that short span of one week I got both positions filled and had a VERY PRODUCTIVE rehearsal tonight. I am actually looking forward to the shoot on Saturday (I was starting to get very concerned about it).

I think I'm going to be ok again :thumbsup:

Look out, my first place entry is back in the running :evil:
 
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Sounds like good news Larry. I am anxious to see how the fight scene turns out.

I'm am still awaiting our shooting days (May 22nd and 23rd). Crazy I know. We have shot so much test footage while awaiting for these days to arrive, I am already burnt. Ok, not too burnt to shoot more, but close. My DIY adapter is working like a champ. I can't wait to get some feedback about the footage.

We have been doing test shoots of the entire storyboard to make sure all of our ducks are in a row before the actual production begins. I have edited most all of the test footage as it will play out in the end product. My jaw hit the floor today when I realized that the story will probably run close to 10 minutes. What the heck do I do now? A quasi trailer? I don't think it will do the story any justice to trim half of it. Not sure what I'm going to do.
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you can always speed it up 200% :)

I have a few scenes to shoot still but Im digging the VFX so far even though Im doing them by myself and not sleeping. 4-5am every night and getting up at 7 to go to work. OMG im tired but im having fun. This is the first contest Im actually busting my ass on.
 
Oh yeah, for my behind the scenes Im going to shoot a bonus Hero fest short that I was going to originally do for the contest.
 
Don't worry, Snodart, you can do it. When we first got our script ready, teh time was probably around 10 to 15 min. But that's my fault, when I start to write I just end up putting in all this extra stuff because my mind starts moving a mile a minute and I think of new dialog and scenes while I'm typing.
It wasn't until we had a new idea to try that we were able to cut it down to 5 min.

There's a way to do it, you may have to adjust the film a little, but you can do it. Good luck!
 
Aram Bauman said:
you can always speed it up 200% :)
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LOL.

Aram Bauman said:
I have a few scenes to shoot still but Im digging the VFX so far even though Im doing them by myself and not sleeping. 4-5am every night and getting up at 7 to go to work. OMG im tired but im having fun. This is the first contest Im actually busting my ass on.
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Nothing like some good old fashioned dedication. Its the best way to learn/grow.

MiataFilmSomething said:
There's a way to do it, you may have to adjust the film a little, but you can do it. Good luck!
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Thanks.

I know that I read somewhere that some festivals will not accept entries that have been shown on the internet. Does anybody know if this is correct? I wonder if only showing the short version on the internet would count.
 
Yeah im wishing I started on this a month earlier. Of course its much cooler in my head. Since theres no time to experiment with effects I pretty much have to take what I create the first or second time around. My idea about creating all my background matte paintings came to a quick halt when I saw how much time it was taking to make it look nice. I did one really nice one but it just wont match because I dont have the time to make enough of them so i settled on a ground plane, a sky and some random buildings. The hardest part is still to come though, I have to match move a 3D object to an arm which I have no clue how to do yet so in between renders I have been reading up. I have plenty of time rendering too between combustion, lightwave, after effects and premiere.
 
I know that I read somewhere that some festivals will not accept entries that have been shown on the internet. Does anybody know if this is correct? I wonder if only showing the short version on the internet would count.[/quote]

i know some festivals do not accept internet films (cannes for instance). seems kinda messed up to me; i don't see why it should matter. don't know about alternate/longer versions though. perhaps that's a loophole you can exploit.
 
Yeah some dont want anything shown anywhere publically. I guess its in case it blows up and becomes something distributers want. I guess they want exclusive rights if that happens. The contests here sort of run the same way. No pimpin til the fat lady sings.
 
its more for the it PREMIERED here factor because the festival doesnt get rights over your film anyway as far as I understand it. Sundance doesn't get a a piece of your distro deal if you show your film there and its a hit.

from my theatre background I worked at theatre's that did New Plays and its the same thing - for the theatre, their grants and all of that are contingent on showing how they impact the art the communuty and the artistists

that means saying "we premiered X play that went on to do X thing"

If the film ahas already been at Sundance then its not an event when it plays at Cannes and Cannes can't claim credit for bringing it to the world.

But ... lots of festivals do take films that have been shown elsewhere ... hence the string of these you see on video boxes and movie posters
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YAHHHH!!!! I Am now officially done and wrapped with all aspects of my hero-fest project! *Dances around* It was a much longer process than I anticipated.
 
We wrapped day 3 today, still have 2 more planned but realistically, probably 3 more. I don't know if we will be able to get it submitted in time though. Very concerned about that. Almost every shot has some VFX involved. We'll see though.
 
Can you believe it? We've been having a heat wave (95+) for the past couple weeks. I've been praying that the weather would let up a little by Saturday (the only day I can get the shoot done). So today I checked the weather forecast and it is supposed to cool down :thumbsup: but it also says possible thundershowers :furious3:

Hopefully we'll just get the nice cool weather with great overcast skies and there won't be a single drop of rain or bolt of lightning
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