Geoff Reisner - Project 47: Chaos

Wow. I don't know how to do any of that. I second TheatreGuy's comments.

It's nice to know that you can dirty a wall without actually throwing dirt on it. I very nearly ruined my newly-painted kitchen wall...
 
Looks excellent! Great poster graphics! Exciting VFX stuff you have planned! Looking forward to this one for sure! Plus, I just LOVE anything shot in Chicago! Sounds like a very sophisticated, visually rich project! Well, here's ANOTHER thread which deserves MUCH more attention than it's getting!
 
UPDATE: Just wrapped principal photography yesterday. We shot over the weekend with main cast and did greenscreen 2nd unit on Sunday & Monday. Shot everything with one HVX and one P2 card; workflow was pretty smooth even with the one card. Total footage so far is 55 gigs; I think that comes out to about 137 minutes of footage. I spent the earlier part of today reviewing it all; definitely the best stuff I've shot in my life. In a lot of ways, it came out better than I had imagined it could with so little time to plan.

I think I'll end up doing two versions of the film. I know we have enough material to make a 10-15 minute version of this film, it's really thick. The script is only 6 pages but I've run into this problem before. I should have known better. The last film I shot was a 5 page script and turned into a 15 minute film...

Our 3D team is working up so very cool stuff for the film; we're rushing to get everything ready but I fear that some of the shots won't be ready for Horrorfest. But no matter what, they'll make it into the final version of the film which should be ready in November or so.

Time to start cutting...
 
A few behind the scenes photos.

01_lukeandcreature.jpg

02_kelsey.jpg

02_nour.jpg

04_greenscreen.jpg

05_chris_geoff.jpg

06_transfer.jpg
 
Looks great! That head piece is awesome! That shot on the left of Kelsey Schieder looks like Leeloo from "The Fifth Element." Nice make-up.

Can't wait to see your film.... both versions of it!

Oh! And that open beer looks awfully close to that dvx IMO. tsk! tsk!
 
Luke, the guy who designed the headpiece, was actually building a complete upper body suit but we ran out of money to finish it. All that latex, foam rubber and other material add up fast. I have no idea how to make any of that stuff; he surprised us all when he showed up. I had only seen the concept sketches he made prior to the shooting day.

Kelsey does look a lot like Leeloo in that shot. We had a really good make-up artist who designed that tattoo on her arm as well. It's makeup and special effects that constantly remind me: "you need good, talented people working every department to make a film. "
 
Geoff_R said:
had a really good make-up artist who designed that tattoo on her arm as well. It's makeup and special effects that constantly remind me: "you need good, talented people working every department to make a film. "
Click to expand...
How true. Looks like you've gotten together a talented group of people on your film. Plus, your actress is a hottie! Wow, I'm REALLY excited to see this one now. The stills look great. Love your greenscreen set-up. Nice KinoFlo there, did you own or rent? Looks like you sure got your ducks in a row here. Can't wait to see it!
 
We rented most of the lighting gear and borrowed some from friends. We had a mid-sized lighting package but I barely used the 650s or 1000s. It was mostly the Kino's and smaller 200-300w lights.
 
POST UPDATE:

By some miracle, I was able to cut this thing down to under 6 minutes. I honestly didn't think it was possible but with some creative cutting and and lots of jump cuts, it works! I didn't even have to remove scenes which was going to be my next move if the last cut didn't work out. We also found a good way to use that time needed for credits...

We are starting on the sound design tonight. I couldn't get my hands on a nagra yet so we're using the HVX as the recorder unit which works but it's a little tedious because now all of our sound effects will have video attached to it...oh well.

I'm going to start color correcting tonight and finding a visual style. Essentially every shot in this film is going through either Shake or a batch process in Photoshop. Damien and I have been toying around a little with stills and have come up with some really great looking stuff. I'll post some grabs by the weekend.
 
Some test CC'd grabs I've been working on. Nothing is final yet; we're still trying to give each scene it's own texture. Any comments would be appreciated.

carla_cc.gif

jake_cc.gif
 
Stuff looks great! But, I agree with Briceman on preferring the subtler look on the latter two. But we're seeing this is all out of context.--just do what you think "fits."
 
nah I really like the CC'ed one .. the greater contrast makes it pop more and makes it look less flat because there' more range of highlight to dark IMHO
jake_cc.gif
 
Hmm i really really like brandon's rendition of the girl, but your passes look great for the rest! Good job...only saw this thread today. Looks like a really really promising project!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top