Rezfactor--"Runway" [working title] Production Notes Thread

Dang... my reply (post #120) took so long to write, my punchline was killed!

Hey Rezfactor, CONGRATS on the realization! And good timing, too! We are down to the single digits in days!!!

Now go, finish your story and post some more pics! [wink!]
 
Last-minute errands . . .

09:00AM, 23 SEPTEMBER UPDATE 1.0: FINAL SHOOTING DAY

Well, today's the second and last day of shooting with talent. Guess what I'm out of? DV tape! So I gotta go to Target and buy some sodas, chips and DV tape. Oh yeah, and some art board from Long's to complete a set wall. Talent's on her way. Sometime this morning, I gotta think of my shot list . . .
 
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Great to hear you're zoning in on the theme/story etc...for your short.

Thank heavens for girlfriends :) Have you thought about scoring (soundtrack ;) ) yet ?

Sounds like you're having a blast anywhoo...:beer:
 
It's over . . .

09:00PM, 23 SEPTEMBER UPDATE 1.1: POST SHOOT REPORT

Well, the last shooting day with talent came and went. Got lots of good coverage of one key scene. But I still underbudgeted my time by at least 50%, forgot to get two key shots, and simply ran out of time to shoot two entire scenes. Guess I'll have to fix it all in post now.
 
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It ain't over until the skinny girl does one more shot . . .

04:30PM, 24 SEPTEMBER UPDATE 1.0: ROUGH-CUT FINISHED

Finished the rough-cut. Really need the stuff I'm missing to "sell" the "story." I need two more shots. Actually three. Actually, four entire set-ups. Wait a minute, I need another day. But I'll settle for just one more reshoot in one location. Plus one pick-up. And three inserts. Actress lives really far away. Otherwise everything will suck.

And the production stills from the beach location above? None of that footage is usable. NONE. We just couldn't get to that location in time. Missed it by about five minutes.
 
But, what if I can't get my actress again next Saturday (she's not answering her cell) . . .

11:59:59PM, 25 SEPTEMBER UPDATE 1.0: REWRITE

This just in . . . TOTAL FRICKKIN' REWRITE! Just got home from work, and was pretty much hating my film all day today, all last night, and all day Sunday. Then I took a shower, and I thought of something else. Gonna try the re-edit right now. The beauty of the rewrite is that it doesn't require any additional shooting. Hope it works.
 
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But, what if I can't get my actress again next Saturday (she's not answering her cell) . . .

11:59:59PM, 25 SEPTEMBER UPDATE 1.0: REWRITE

This just in . . . TOTAL FRICKKIN' REWRITE! Just got home from work, and was pretty much hating my film all day today, all last night, and all day Sunday. Then I took a shower, and I thought of something else. Gonna try the re-edit right now. The beauty of the rewrite is that it doesn't require any additional shooting. Hope it works.
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I hope so too! Good luck with the that. :thumbup:
 
Good luck man! Hope you make a film you love even if you dont make it to the deadline! It's what you like that counts!
 
Hang in there!
I know Black Angel is turning out different than we thought it would but we're learning and we're having fun. That's what it's all about.
 
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Hang in there!
I know Black Angel is turning out different than we thought it would but we're learning and we're having fun. That's what it's all about.
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I know what you all say...this is what's fun about making films..how you can 'change' in the process!
When I first wrote the Door Between, it was called 'The Room' and it was lets say...just the first 5 minutes more or less...then we got the idea about the vampires and the rest came along, we found the location and we could not let it slip away....so I added more scenes. It's a 10 minute film now but I dont care about the contest, I am just glad that what I wrote, is more or less what we will present. And even now, in post....I change stuff to make it look good....but this does not make me sad about the project, I dont feel that I am moving further away from what was our vision, I just feel that we're being smart, creative and dedicated to make this thing work.
 
Yeah, I was just getting depressed because, I don't really have everything I need to finish my short. I need one more FULL day of production with the lead actress. I fixed my edit up with a half-ass, patch-up job tonight, and it just looks . . . "unfinished." Which it is.

It's actually a slightly different shot of her above.
 
Are you going to be able to get your Full day of produciton in? I hope so man, you've come all this way.

I know what you mean about not liking your project during the process...I think everyone goes through the same thing, I know I did/do.

Hope you get it wrapped up man. Good luck.
 
NEW POSTER:

Had a lot of fun making my poster tonight! Here's the two versions I came up with.

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I never took "real" publicity stills that could have been used for a box cover or poster, so I just took a grab from the film itself. Doesn't really "communicate" anything, but I thought it was a pretty grab. In the second version, I added a type treatment to the title, using a black line through the "RUNWAY" type, to sort of emulate some runway hash marks, and then I added a shot of a plane to help "logo-ize" the title. Then, of course, I repeated the design in the new banner below. Oh yeah, I can't think of a logline for the life of me. Never can think of those damn things.

I like the "title-plane logo" so much, I think I'm gonna make T-shirts with it when this is all over. Hopefully, I'll shoot a better publicity still too someday. Maybe I'll even finish shooting the film someday also. Even if I can't get another shooting day to complete the "script," I'm still submitting whatever I've got anyway.
 
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