The Company of Memories

Wild Imagination Films

Wild Imagination Films

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The hardest part of all of this has been naming the darn thing.
The story got a major overhaul and the reviews from my crew are all very much thumbs up. We are casting this week and shooting next weekend.
I love the creative process. There were all of these crazy shots I was going to do and the more I worked on the story, the more I realized I needed to work on really telling the story, not getting the craziest shots I could come up with. Now I have a really tight, clean, understandable dramatic story.
I am very excited about filming, but I think editing is going to be even more fun.
Well, I have to go story board.
-Will

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We're working on a way of going into memories "never seen before in film." (ever notice in the special features and making ofs how they are all doing something never seen before?)
Our character is tortured by memories. Not bad memories, good ones. This is worse in a way. So I think we've come up with some interesting ways to differentiate the real from the remembered.
We're getting lots of submissions for our lead actress, but I'm amazed at what people are sending us for "headshots." Anyone else have this issue?
Anyway, two days of auditions getting scheduled right now and scripts to go out on Wed of next week. Rehearsal on Friday night and film Saturday/ Sunday. Pick ups the next weekend if needed.
With one exception, the entire film will be shot in one location.
 
Interesting title. Good luck!

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I don't want to rain on your parade- but I would be careful about putting out a public website for your entry- it could be seen as outsdie advertising and get you disqualified. Although if you are not shooting on the DVX/HVX, then it is a non-issue.
 
The website mentions nothing about this film aside from the title and it being in production. Hardly what one would call "promotion."

I choose to go with the torture of good memories because I have found them to be the harder to live with. Bad memories can usually be turned around and blamed on the other person and serve to make you glad you're no longer in the situation.
However, good memories are what you want to go back to and relive. If the person you made them with is no longer there, then you live in the company of memories......
I also wanted to really challenge the actors to bring the feelings of happiness and of loss to the screen without camp or melodrama. It has challenged me to write dialogue and not let it sound written. It also pushes me to think outside the box on shot composition, framing and action.
Lighting on this is going to be fun. All of it is going to be fun.
One of my friends described the pacing of the edits as letting the story breathe. I like this metaphor.
 
The movie sounds interesting. I agree with the good memories being harder sometimes. Good luck with everything
 
Just finished the auditions. Man, this was difficult. The right look but not the right voice, the right emotion but the wrong body, the right body but no acting ability..... Beggars can't be chosers, but we stayed choosy and found what we were looking for. Filming begins on Saturday.
 
Hey WIF, man... this sounds great! I love the process that you have shared. Would love to hear more if you have time to share. (I just dig the creative process!)

I love, love, love what you did with After Life and CANNOT wait to see what you bring to the table here.

Good luck to you! Sounds like a wonderful premise.

-Ted
 
Wrapped

Wrapped

One weekend of shooting became two and we wrapped the voice overs for the two actors last night.
Our female lead is nothing less than stellar. In the first five minutes of shooting she had our crew on the verge of tears.
We really pushed the lighting on this. Some of it I'm thrilled with, some not as much.
I found out what it is like to be a real director on this project. After Life was very much an actors film. They did their own lines and got very little direction from me. (Mianly 'cause I was clueless how to direct and not comfortable telling people what to do?)
In the Company of Memories is a writer/ director's film. It's very intimate and I tried to bring this out in the framing and closeness of many of the shots.
Now for the big suprise...... This is the prequel to After Life.
 
Ooh! I am so excited! A prequel!!!

I can't wait to see that. (I loved After Life!)

Looking forward to it!!!

-Ted
 
First edit of In The Company of Memories is done and I am looking it over on the tele right now. Just at 5 minutes currently. Sound is next and some touch up shots here and there. Ted, if you liked After Life then you are gonna love this one. I threw out the book on "how to edit" and went a little nutty. Hope you all like it.
 
Edits and more edits. Test viewing with cast and crew going well. Couple of close friends have seen it and were left sitting open mouthed.
Not certain if it was the amazing technical work or the rather in your face scene. I pulled no punches, this is reality, this is what people think, feel, dream, want.

I think I may have been a little rough on my actress. I wanted to get an emotional response for something she has to read.
I told her to think of this letter as everything her character had ever wanted to hear from the lead actor's character, all the thoughts and feelings he had kept hidden. Then I told her she had gotten the letter right after finding out he had died in an accident. She got halfway through the letter, stopped, I heard her say she couldn't do this and then she was out of the recording booth and sobbing on my shoulder. She cried for a minute and then went right back in and finished the take.
I am very pleased with the results of the last couple of weekends, and the last couple of nights in editing. Still have a ways to go, but it feels so nice to have most of the edit finished.
I am getting excited about the next project.
 
This is a cliched thing to say on these boards but I'm truly looking forward to your film in particular. Definitely a thought-provoking premise you have there...I'm interested in seeing how you pull this off.
 
Three solid days, (72 hours) of editing. 15 Monster Chaos energy drinks. Several people saying, "hmm, there's just something I don't like there." An hour of wheelies, knee dragging, and rates of travel the likes of which will land you in jail....
My philosophy on film stuff is, since I really don't know what I'm am doing I really don't know what I'm incapable of. My career in Emergency Medicine taught me the art of improvisation. So, I just try to get the picture in my head on my monitor. I know a DP and when he starts in with all the jargon it makes my head hurt. I tell people what I want by saying things like "the little light with the flaps on it." I've never been handed the wrong one yet.
Mostly, this is supposed to be fun. If it isn't, then I should just be at work.
 
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