Geoff Reisner - Project 47: Chaos

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SYNOPSIS
An infection is spreading into the cities which radically alters the genome of it's victims, turning them into swift, violent, and cunning killers. Mutation occurs with every transmission, rendering unique effects within each victim and leading scientists and officials to believe that a cure is hopeless. Carla; an abused drug addict, struggles to gain understanding of her own mortality while the world plummets into chaos.

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PRODUCTION DETAILS
Shooting Location: Chicago, IL
Shooting Dates: Sept. 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th

CREW
Geoff Reisner - DIRECTOR/DP/PRODUCER/EDITOR
Damien Jackson - PRODUCER/EDITOR
Carly Armstrong - CO-PRODUCER/PRODUCTION DESIGNER/WARDROBE
Wes Carrosquillo - AC/GAFFER
Scott David Gross - BEST BOY
Dan Avi - SET DESIGNER
Katherine Colfer - STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Luke Crumley - SPECIAL EFFECTS
Angel Amore - MAKEUP
Anthony Shamal Perera - COMPOSER/SOUND RECORDIST
Jeremy Reynolds - 3D ANIMATOR/COMPOSITOR
Kyle Hollings - PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

CAST
Kelsey Scheider
Nour Ayoub
Chris Jennings
Jake Paque
Damien Jackson
Luke Crumley
Ava Angelova
Michael Metreger
Elizabeth Gonzales

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WHAT ARE WE CURRENTLY DOING???? < October 1st >

*Trying to figure out why my upload to the server keeps stalling out 3/4 of the way through...

*Trying to stay awake, looking forward to a day of sleep...

< September 29th >

*Picture was locked on Thursday - FTP'd new Quicktime over to Anthony to start on new score. I should be receiving the new score tonight.

*3D VFX artist Jeremy Reynolds is coming over tonight so we can finish off one of our bigger VFX shots.

*20 other VFX shots; both small and large are finally finished.

*Halfway through the initial sound design run. *Sound really does make the movie in the end.*

*Still trying to find time to work up new poster for October 1st.
 
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Status as of Sept. 7th, 2006:

We came up with this idea in the last week of August. I had been shooting something else for horrorfest but more and more it was coming out like a thriller. I didn't want to go that route so we postponed the project for the time being and started from scratch. Since we launched this project, every day has been crazy and full of one problem after another, but I absolutely love it. I haven't been this absorbed in a film since my sophomore year of high school when I spent a week making my first film.

We have a variety of special effects shots that we've been shooting/planning over the last week. I'll be posting boards of that by this weekend. We'll be comping in Shake and 3D is being done in lightwave. This is a character based story but we've our hands full with fx shots.

Today I finished casting the film and we're in the process of finishing a set which we're now building since we couldn't find a location that worked. Also, finally got all the guns I need for the film (replica shotguns, handguns, M-16s). Back to set building...
 
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QUICK TEST COMPOSITE:
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Put this together rather quickly just to see if it was possibly to pull this shot off. I've been an After Effects user for a while but after getting into Shake, there's no going back. In the film, one of our characters discover a shredded body outside her apartment door.

I extracted a still from Shake and brought it into Photoshop and built up layers for the blood, walls, cracked mirror and then imported them all into Shake. I had to tweak the grain on the photoshop layers to match the original plate, that was the most time consuming as you have to constantly render small portions and tweak. The blood doesn't look that real but I only spent 15 minutes on the shot. Based off this, I think the final shot should come out looking really good.
 
Yea, we've got our hands full with fx shots. We've got lots of secondary footage, news room footage, talk show hosts which will is all being shot against green screen this week and next week.

Then we have three major shots with CG, one wide shot of the city of Chicago with a dozen CG helicopters, fire and smoke. I shot the plate for that this morning at dawn but it was overcast and didn't have the look I wanted...so we'll have to redo that one on a day with clear skies.

Second CG shot is a city street shot with a bunch of trashed cars and destruction littering the street. We've been doing test comps with that and we might not need to use any CG in the final shot. We've been using high-rez still photos and comping those into a master shot and it's looking really good.

The third one is something I can't give away but my hopes are that no one will know it's CG at all and it will blend into the environment seamlessly. I'll talk about that after the film is out.

Beyond that, there are a few smaller fx shots with basic compositing and so forth. Earlier in the thread is some test comps from one of the smaller ones.
 
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EJ Pennypacker said:
Excellent post.

By the looks of it, nobody needs to ever dress a set anymore. :)

EJ
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I think Sin City is a perfect example. Have you seen the Special Edition DVD where you can watch the entire movie as 'greenscreen? It's really interesting stuff. Now we all just need to learn 3D...great, more software.
 
Update: Fully casted, all locations locked, main set done being built, head 3D animator and compositor onboard for FX work. Picking up all rented lights tomorrow and shooting some prelim green screen work and then principal productions starts on Friday.
 
I'm definitely looking forward to this one. VFX galore, 3d... mutants? :) OOOH ya!! Good luck on finishing the shoot and post.

/j
 
Thanks man! Things are getting tight and is it just me, or do these short little films seem so simple when you first think about them...and then each day, you find yourself adding a little shot...or a character...or a moment and before you know it, you're like, "how the heck am I going to do all this by Oct. 1st???"
 
Man, that is quite a project you have going there! I can't until I am up to speed on how to pull all of the crap off! I just put my camera on a tripod (somethimes!) and shoot. A dozen helocopters?! Trashed cars and a city on fire?!

I can't wait to see this one!!!

Good luck with all. Sounds great!
 
Geoff_R said:
Thanks man! Things are getting tight and is it just me, or do these short little films seem so simple when you first think about them...and then each day, you find yourself adding a little shot...or a character...or a moment and before you know it, you're like, "how the heck am I going to do all this by Oct. 1st???"
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No doubt.


John G.
 
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