Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Sweet! Cool new pics man!
"schism" feature length film (DVX100a)
- Thread starter John C Lyons
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Sid Barnhoorn
Well-known member
Hi there,
Looks pretty cool!
Good luck with the project! Btw, I was wondering, where does the saying "everyone goes Dutch" come from? ;-)
Cheers,
Looks pretty cool!
Good luck with the project! Btw, I was wondering, where does the saying "everyone goes Dutch" come from? ;-)Cheers,
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Ok... now it looks like you all covered that room... was that for day for night? Or was it just to keep your equipment secured... also, I think something I know I'd like to see is some movie stills, with some lighting breakdowns!
The window has been a main source of motivation for scenes in this room. As our snow storms got worse and eventually daylight hours grew longer we needed to control the light entering the room so we could do day or night scenes anytime. The unfortunate thing was that big bush in front of the window but you take what you can get. I would blow a 1 or 2k through the window depending time of day and mood, geling the entire window or sometimes just the fixture. When the lamp at the side of the bed was the motivation an ARRI 150 was placed on a low stand and lightly diffused. The color of the room itself is quite unappealing but again these people have gone out of their way for us so we've tried to make the best of it.
Beat Takeshi
Two-Hip Shakur
Hey John,
I just read your BTS and I love to hear stories of how people got things done to get their movie done. I'm actually reading a book now called My first movie that has experiences of 20 famous film makers. Keep it coming!
I just read your BTS and I love to hear stories of how people got things done to get their movie done. I'm actually reading a book now called My first movie that has experiences of 20 famous film makers. Keep it coming!
Jay Rodriguez
Coffee Member
Jooooooooohn, duuuuuuuuude! I read through the thred, I'm happy that you're trucking forward! Would love to see some clips homie!
John C Lyons
Veteran
3 new raws
3 new raws
just posted 3 new raw stills! ill throw them up on the 1st post in the thread too. filming a really cool scene tomorrow, ill post replies and more info soon...
3 new raws
just posted 3 new raw stills! ill throw them up on the 1st post in the thread too. filming a really cool scene tomorrow, ill post replies and more info soon...
In the first picture the conditions were awful, completely flat so we implemented some negative light to the left side of the talents face to create if not meager, at least some contrast. The second picture was an enormous challenge as I had fill 100 fog machines with heavy fluid so the fog would float long enough to get the shot, or maybe actually God had something to do with it.
John C Lyons
Veteran
popping in with a quick update.
We completed our 46th day of filming this past weekend! We're taking a couple weeks off to evaluate our footage and wait on the outdoors to look a bit more summer-like for our remaining scenes. At this point, we're looking to wrap up production at about 50 days total. Then summer and fall will be spent editing, recording sound effects and the soundtrack. From there we will submit to Sundance and hope to begin showing the film in public late-2007/early-2008. There's a new article from the Edinboro University Spectator now available online about the production. Click here to check out the PDF scan (must have Adobe Reader installed). And here for the text-only version.
i know you guys are waiting on some footage. it'll be coming, promise. just gotta spend some serious time tackling this 40 hours of tape first... we're watching so leave you questions/comments and we'll follow-up real quick like. thanks for reading!
We completed our 46th day of filming this past weekend! We're taking a couple weeks off to evaluate our footage and wait on the outdoors to look a bit more summer-like for our remaining scenes. At this point, we're looking to wrap up production at about 50 days total. Then summer and fall will be spent editing, recording sound effects and the soundtrack. From there we will submit to Sundance and hope to begin showing the film in public late-2007/early-2008. There's a new article from the Edinboro University Spectator now available online about the production. Click here to check out the PDF scan (must have Adobe Reader installed). And here for the text-only version.
i know you guys are waiting on some footage. it'll be coming, promise. just gotta spend some serious time tackling this 40 hours of tape first... we're watching so leave you questions/comments and we'll follow-up real quick like. thanks for reading!
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Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
So dude, what's new on this?
John C Lyons
Veteran
editing begins...
editing begins...
hi Brandon and thanks for your interest! :thumbsup: I appreciate you keeping this thing alive!
OK, so I'm now knee deep in editing. ive locked myself indoors and am focusing on our early september deadline:
pic from day 49 - pretty much sums up the editing process
we shot a couple more craned exteriors yesterday. this weekend we're doing about 5 reshoots/additionals at the nursing home. after that we just have 2 angles left to reshoot at another location and then I've got everything I need. simple setups, but important stuff to tie up some loose ends.
we ended up with 50 total days on production. pretty amazing! I have no idea how all these people stuck with us for the 7 months of filming. they are insane, obviously.
On our 49th day we shot a crazy scene that'll take place towards the end of the movie with 30 extras that were 65+ years old. That was fun and they were great. I was a bit worried and actually wanted to do the scene in green screen, but my crew talked me out of it and we totally pulled it off! Some day I'll show you the shot I worked up from in my head in photoshop and how damn close we got to it. Really happy with my team. And was very relieved at how well the extras did.
I put together an extremely fat assembly cut of every scene we shot and the beast came in at 2 hours and 20 minutes! yeah, you read right, 140 mins. so my mission now, after making pages of notes with my DP Dorota, is to get it down to 2 hours on the next pass and then whittle down and tighten from that point.
I'm still using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. And I've apparently found the length/project limitations on that version. My system is a P4 3.6GHz with 4GB RAM and I had so many issues with exporting and getting that damned "failed to return a video frame" messages. ugh! Media Encoder is not my favorite thing in the world at this point. I'm hoping that the more I cut it down the less a problem that will be, otherwise I'm going to need to get CS3 or something I guess. Maybe export the RAW AVI in chunks or something and re-assemble elsewhere. Nothing worse than just wanting to export what you've been working on and the stupid software holding you back (and then not really finding a clear fix from Adobe).
Anyhow...
I've got Andy Flatley (formerly "Andi Wondersound") doing our score. He did "Hunting Camp" and "BOGO" as well. Pretty excited at having our first real score! He's going to be doing some crazy stuff with piano. "Prepared piano" or something he called it, where you play it from the inside and put paper and stuff over the keys. I have no clue, but as the movie gets more and more odd I can imagine him matching the visuals well with the things he's working to pull off.
What else to tell you? Am I rambling? It's been so long since I typed something on this, I could go on and on, but I'll end it here.
I'm not ready to share any footage yet, but there was a cool website TheFilmChair.com that visited us on our 50th day of filming, if you're interested in reading about that, check it out here.
editing begins...
hi Brandon and thanks for your interest! :thumbsup: I appreciate you keeping this thing alive!
OK, so I'm now knee deep in editing. ive locked myself indoors and am focusing on our early september deadline:
pic from day 49 - pretty much sums up the editing process
we shot a couple more craned exteriors yesterday. this weekend we're doing about 5 reshoots/additionals at the nursing home. after that we just have 2 angles left to reshoot at another location and then I've got everything I need. simple setups, but important stuff to tie up some loose ends.
we ended up with 50 total days on production. pretty amazing! I have no idea how all these people stuck with us for the 7 months of filming. they are insane, obviously.
On our 49th day we shot a crazy scene that'll take place towards the end of the movie with 30 extras that were 65+ years old. That was fun and they were great. I was a bit worried and actually wanted to do the scene in green screen, but my crew talked me out of it and we totally pulled it off! Some day I'll show you the shot I worked up from in my head in photoshop and how damn close we got to it. Really happy with my team. And was very relieved at how well the extras did.
I put together an extremely fat assembly cut of every scene we shot and the beast came in at 2 hours and 20 minutes! yeah, you read right, 140 mins. so my mission now, after making pages of notes with my DP Dorota, is to get it down to 2 hours on the next pass and then whittle down and tighten from that point.
I'm still using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. And I've apparently found the length/project limitations on that version. My system is a P4 3.6GHz with 4GB RAM and I had so many issues with exporting and getting that damned "failed to return a video frame" messages. ugh! Media Encoder is not my favorite thing in the world at this point. I'm hoping that the more I cut it down the less a problem that will be, otherwise I'm going to need to get CS3 or something I guess. Maybe export the RAW AVI in chunks or something and re-assemble elsewhere. Nothing worse than just wanting to export what you've been working on and the stupid software holding you back (and then not really finding a clear fix from Adobe).
Anyhow...
I've got Andy Flatley (formerly "Andi Wondersound") doing our score. He did "Hunting Camp" and "BOGO" as well. Pretty excited at having our first real score! He's going to be doing some crazy stuff with piano. "Prepared piano" or something he called it, where you play it from the inside and put paper and stuff over the keys. I have no clue, but as the movie gets more and more odd I can imagine him matching the visuals well with the things he's working to pull off.
What else to tell you? Am I rambling? It's been so long since I typed something on this, I could go on and on, but I'll end it here.
I'm not ready to share any footage yet, but there was a cool website TheFilmChair.com that visited us on our 50th day of filming, if you're interested in reading about that, check it out here.
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Bluesteel988
Member
looks very good John. I'm encouraged to see the exceptional quality of the DVX100A, as i will be using it on my next project.
keep up the good work.
keep up the good work.
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Thanks for the update John! Great stuff!
John C Lyons
Veteran
schism baby!
schism baby!
Thanks for reading, guys!
Well, we've had our first official baby on the cast/crew! Lori Clapper, an actress in the movie, just gave birth to Emma. Check out the T-shirt:
EDITING UPDATES
I've been doing another pass on the beast since my last post. I've gotten through the first 48 minutes and have got it down to 2hr 13min now. So I should be able to reach my goal of getting this 2nd pass down to 2 hours or less...
We're doing a lot of discussion now (crew and musicians) about ADR as well as recording background/ambient sound, folley, and sound effects. I'm looking at investing in some more audio equipment to pull this all off (probably will keep using my AT-835B for the background stuff but I'm looking to really step up now on the dialogue).
I'll post once I figure out the route I'm going to take on it... In the meantime, if anyone knows of a good mic for getting some really rich ADR/voice recording, please share your thoughts.
schism baby!
Thanks for reading, guys!
Well, we've had our first official baby on the cast/crew! Lori Clapper, an actress in the movie, just gave birth to Emma. Check out the T-shirt:
EDITING UPDATES
I've been doing another pass on the beast since my last post. I've gotten through the first 48 minutes and have got it down to 2hr 13min now. So I should be able to reach my goal of getting this 2nd pass down to 2 hours or less...
We're doing a lot of discussion now (crew and musicians) about ADR as well as recording background/ambient sound, folley, and sound effects. I'm looking at investing in some more audio equipment to pull this all off (probably will keep using my AT-835B for the background stuff but I'm looking to really step up now on the dialogue).
I'll post once I figure out the route I'm going to take on it... In the meantime, if anyone knows of a good mic for getting some really rich ADR/voice recording, please share your thoughts.
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John C Lyons
Veteran
last day of production photos
last day of production photos
ok guys, here are some photos from our last day of principal photography on the show!
john (me) ponders a shot
dorota swies gives terry smith (neil) a bit more gray
kirk getting ready on the boom
our dp back behind the monitor
me giving terry a bit of direction between takes
hope you enjoyed! any questions?
last day of production photos
ok guys, here are some photos from our last day of principal photography on the show!
john (me) ponders a shot
dorota swies gives terry smith (neil) a bit more gray
kirk getting ready on the boom
our dp back behind the monitor
me giving terry a bit of direction between takes
hope you enjoyed! any questions?
John C Lyons
Veteran
cut finished, audio equipment ordered
cut finished, audio equipment ordered
EDITING UPDATE
ok, so last weekend i got "schism" down to 2 hours and 3 minutes (w/o end credits). we had 2 pages full of notes for that cut, after watching this new one im down to a single page packed with notes. so we're progressing nicely...
the goal for the next cut, timewise, is under 2 hours, hopefully 110 minutes or less. ill be starting in on that cut (technically the 3rd, or is it 4th?) tomorrow...
POST SOUNDWORK PLANNING
here are the new toys i purchased yesterday on our quest to achieve seriously improved sound on the film:
(1) Mackie Onyx Satellite
(1) Audio Technica AT4033/CL
(1) Sony MDR-7506 headphones (giving me 2 total now)
i think we have a location that will let us do all the sound recording, now i just have to lock picture!!! alright, so thats three posts in a row for me, im going to sit back a bit now and see how this thread hangs...
have a good weekend!
cut finished, audio equipment ordered
EDITING UPDATE
ok, so last weekend i got "schism" down to 2 hours and 3 minutes (w/o end credits). we had 2 pages full of notes for that cut, after watching this new one im down to a single page packed with notes. so we're progressing nicely...
the goal for the next cut, timewise, is under 2 hours, hopefully 110 minutes or less. ill be starting in on that cut (technically the 3rd, or is it 4th?) tomorrow...
POST SOUNDWORK PLANNING
here are the new toys i purchased yesterday on our quest to achieve seriously improved sound on the film:
(1) Mackie Onyx Satellite
(1) Audio Technica AT4033/CL
(1) Sony MDR-7506 headphones (giving me 2 total now)
i think we have a location that will let us do all the sound recording, now i just have to lock picture!!! alright, so thats three posts in a row for me, im going to sit back a bit now and see how this thread hangs...
have a good weekend!
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