Mark and Ted's Excellent Adventure in Drama

Yawwwwwnn..... Ted just woke me up. ... Gotta run to the airport.

Kyle, .... you're next!

Bullis, left you a voice mail. Call me dude.
 
Ted, glad to see you had a good time here on our side of the country...looking forward to seeing the fruit of all your guys' labor.

By the way, here's another good source for smilies (when you find one you like, click on it, then it gives you the text to paste into the message board to display it): http://www.clicksmilies.com/
 
Theodore J Arabian said:
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Is that a pic of Mr. Concannon, our resident DVXUser actor, shaking hands with President Bush? Nice detail :thumbsup:
 
Ted, Mark,

Not sure if this has been addressed yet in this massive thread. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of budget are you all working with. I looked at yout BTS photos, and man, you're really going for it. Just curious.

All the Best,
Ben
 
Larry R said:
I think the budget doubled after Ted got his first taste of In 'n Out :grin:
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Haha. I remember the first time I came out to LA to visit a friend. She lived a block away from an In 'n Out. I'm an East Coast guy. Needless to say in the course of 4 days I ate pretty unhealthy. What is it? Double Animal Style? My stomach's growling now.
 
Hey Ted... those two reverse shots look FANTASTIC!! :) And yeah, I guess I do clean up nice... haha!

Tim... it's always great to hang out with you on set too... and yeah, I'm looking forward to hanging out with you and everyone else whenever possible... :beer:
 
DVX-Ben,

We've been trying to keep a tight rein on the budget, but obviously have to spend some money. Renting the grip/lighting gear was about $370 I think. Kevin helped us there and clued us in on how to get the "director's reel" discount. I found a 15' U-haul for $19 a day (3 days) and 70 cents per mile. We've been very fortunate to have no location or prop expenses so far except for feeding the crew. First night we had sandwiches and a table of stuff and the second night Maniac Mike catered a beautiful spaghetti dinner at the airport cafe. Food and expendables has been about $270 total so far. Ted and I have been racking out at a Best Western Motel but I lined up a forensic job at an intersection in Chino only about 15 miles from the set and put Ted on payroll as flagman to watch for traffic as we filmed running a red light. That let me recoup lodging and shooting expenses since we used theHVX and shot it during a shooting day. For our major shoot the first week in January I plan to schedule another forensic shoot that will let me cover a bunch of expenses as well. We're paying our lead female actress a small amount and the rest of the cast is working for credit. Kevin and I have worked out a trade-out of services for his role as D.P. that will hopefully give him equivalent value for the wonderful work he's doing on TTN.

We've got some other expenses for makeup services, wardrobe and some transportation but not a huge amount. The front surface mirror cost something like $70 from a scientific services company and I had to have it FedExed for the shoot.

Ted obviously had expense in flying out two times now from New Hampshire. His first trip saw us make an expedition into the desert to shoot some critical scenes of the aircraft in flight. He's got one more extended trip for our big shoot in January. I'll try to get a good total on the budget after we do that shoot. We'll have craft services expenses and some lodging along with the grip rental.

In summary, we're working on a shoestring but trying to keep production values high. Obviously, we'd never be able to afford the Zlin-50 and a stunt pilot but Rob Harrison is a business partner and one of my best friends. He and I have been kicking this story idea around for about four years and when Ted and I became friends I ran it by him. Ted came up with the first draft of a script within 24 hours and the rest is now history.

As everyone will see, hopefully in a few weeks. We've crafted this story to take advantage of an event that will really amp up our production values. If all goes well we should have some incredible BTS footage to post the second week in January.
 
Mark,

Good stuff man. Sounds like you're creatively using your assets to make a short that's going to look more expensive than it was. Can't wait to see it.

Ben
 
Yeah, Mark and the gang's done a great job of making this thing look HIGH budget, while keeping actual costs down! It's awesome to see! Can't wait to actually be out there shooting with the guys in Jan! Which reminds me, Mark, would you mind PM'ing me our exact shoot dates again, as I need to take that time off work. Thanks!

Mark Johnson said:
Brandon, sent you back a PM. Woo hoo.
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Got it dude, and one right back at ya! I think we have found our solution! :)
 
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