"Bloody Mary: A nightmare Collaboration by Mark Harris and Timur Civan"

Damn boyz, Those are some mighty fine looking grabs. I love those light scenes.

I wish I had a cast. I am finding it difficult to be behind the camera and in front of it at the same time! Seriously. I know that sounds stupid, like a "duh" statement, but I thought that I could do this all on my own. And I will. Just a big ol' learning experience!

BTW - Your lead looks great. I can't wait to see this.
 
She's got a great look. I can't wait to see her act.

She looks like she could fit into many genres, many types of roles. And she looks perfect in this film.

Nice find!
 
The Amazing Nina, who also helped on Make-up and producing, hand-picked a bunch of recent grads from Sarah Lawrence College for me to audition. Nina's a theater director too, so I knew going in that everyone I saw could act. But yeah, Leah turned out beyond my wildest expectations.

We only rehearsed for 10 hours, but she really brought an amazing amount of creativity to the role. She brought her own choices, but was very open to discovering new things in rehearsal - as am I. And many of the things she discovered actually made me see the character differently, even though I wrote it in the first place.
 
desperatecomfort said:
.... And many of the things she discovered actually made me see the character differently, even though I wrote it in the first place.
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Gotta love that!

I love rehearsals. Both as an actor and a director... I love that exploration and discovery stage.

Then to go on and nail the role really feels great.
 
I've heard filmmakers say they don't rehearse, which I really cannot understand. I don't really like to fiddle with performances on set. I like to have them settled and pretty much where they need to be when we get to shooting. There are just too many other things to think about at that point. As a result, we generally wind up not doing too many takes of any one thing. Sometimes new stuff comes up on set, but I don't like to be there all day and night, so I like the performances to be solid going in.

Plus, I'm an actor by training, so working with actors is fun for me.
 
yea you know we usually only do 2 or 3 takes per scene which is quite surprisingly fast and efficent. the actors usually nail it within 2 takes. Which is good for me because i gt less tired, and can focus on perfecting camera work and lighting.
 
TimurCivan said:
yea you know we usually only do 2 or 3 takes per scene which is quite surprisingly fast and efficent. the actors usually nail it within 2 takes. Which is good for me because i gt less tired, and can focus on perfecting camera work and lighting.
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Be quiet and get your spiderbrace, weakling!!! From now on, it's 12 takes of everything!
 
Ouch! What a slave driver!

I find that the best takes for an actor are usually in the first handful... you know, 2-4 takes. It's the crew that sometimes need more! Once, I was an actor on a full length Indy and we did something like 27 takes! It sucked! Two actors with the crew pulling some dolly shot that circled us at a piano. It was insane.

Then, the director had the nerve to tell us a week later (or so) that he ended up using the 3rd take! F*cker! Jeez, it was a long scene and we spent hours and hours on it.

Sorry, side-tracked reliving that nightmare!
 
TheatreGuy said:
Then, the director had the nerve to tell us a week later (or so) that he ended up using the 3rd take! F*cker! Jeez, it was a long scene and we spent hours and hours on it.
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He's not supposed to TELL you which one he used... especially if it was #3... ;)
 
Final Cut is up. Timur, go check it out. Now it's off to Herman to work the rest of his magic, and on to sound design, including actor looping, and color correction. Finally, we see the light at the end of the tunnel.
 
Bloody tunnels?

Cocks out?

I'm not sure what I stumbled into here...

Anyhoo...this looks interesting. I'm excited to see what's up with that makeup...
 
Lingothree said:
Bloody tunnels?

Cocks out?

I'm not sure what I stumbled into here...

Anyhoo...this looks interesting. I'm excited to see what's up with that makeup...
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Yeah, when Timur opens his mouth, this looks more and more like a Man-Hole movie...
 
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