Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Director Larry J. Rutledge | Director of Photography Jeff McPhee | Writer Joseph Bouton
SHORT: Legend of Mr. Winters
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Director Larry J. Rutledge | Director of Photography Jeff McPhee | Writer Joseph Bouton
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
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Details
Logline:
Many dangers awaken in the dark and challenge the very stoutest of hearts.
Synopsis:
Jake Thompson just wants to be like his big brother, but Rick doesn't feel the same way. He loves his brother, but is too old and too cool to have Jake tagging along everywhere he goes.
When Jake overhears Rick and his friends plan a camping trip he sees it as an opportunity. As usual, Rick has other ideas. But Evelyn, Rick's girlfriend, comes to the rescue and convinces Rick to let his brother come along on what will become anything but an ordinary trip to the mountains for a weekend campout.
Rick's best friend Paul tells the old ghost legend that surrounds the lake where they will be camping and its not too long after when things start to go very wrong.
Before long they are stranded and soon find themselves wandering, lost, through the woods at night. Many dangers come to life in the dark of night, will they manage to find their way safely back home? Or will the woods claim another victim to the "Legend of Mr. Winters"?
Cast:
Mr. Winters - David Fine
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006718/
Rick Thompson - Jeff Johnson
Jake Thompson - Matt Giacomo
Evelyn Manor - Rose Downey
Paul Cutter - Gerardo Guitron
Crew
Director - Larry J. Rutledge
1st AD - Joseph Bouton
DP - Jeff McPhee
Original Score by Justin R. Durban
Hair / Makeup - Leilana Pueliu
Details
Logline:
Many dangers awaken in the dark and challenge the very stoutest of hearts.
Synopsis:
Jake Thompson just wants to be like his big brother, but Rick doesn't feel the same way. He loves his brother, but is too old and too cool to have Jake tagging along everywhere he goes.
When Jake overhears Rick and his friends plan a camping trip he sees it as an opportunity. As usual, Rick has other ideas. But Evelyn, Rick's girlfriend, comes to the rescue and convinces Rick to let his brother come along on what will become anything but an ordinary trip to the mountains for a weekend campout.
Rick's best friend Paul tells the old ghost legend that surrounds the lake where they will be camping and its not too long after when things start to go very wrong.
Before long they are stranded and soon find themselves wandering, lost, through the woods at night. Many dangers come to life in the dark of night, will they manage to find their way safely back home? Or will the woods claim another victim to the "Legend of Mr. Winters"?
Cast:
Mr. Winters - David Fine
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006718/
Rick Thompson - Jeff Johnson
Jake Thompson - Matt Giacomo
Evelyn Manor - Rose Downey
Paul Cutter - Gerardo Guitron
Crew
Director - Larry J. Rutledge
1st AD - Joseph Bouton
DP - Jeff McPhee
Original Score by Justin R. Durban
Hair / Makeup - Leilana Pueliu
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Production BLOG
Production BLOG
Principal Photography - Day 1
Day 1 started out fairly well. One of the first actors to arrive, Gerardo Guitron, went to his car to grab his script and noticed his tire was flat. Upon further inspection we saw a large nail protruding from his tire. The interesting thing was, it was the head of the nail, not the other end, which was stuck into the tire ... ok, not such a great start after all.
Everyone showed up on time, most were actually early. Our DP, Jeff McPhee, pulled up with a nicely stocked grip trailer. Before he opened the trailer doors, I proudly showed him the gear I had managed to borrow, he was polite and smiled as he looked at what I had. Then he opened his trailer doors and I quietly grabbed my stuff and put it into the garage ... we weren't going to need any of it.
I have to say, after having shot a couple short films where I was everything, producer/director/acting coach/wardrobe/front office/back office/catering/craft services/grip/gaffer/etc/etc/etc/etc, it was fantastic to have a DP/Gaffer/Grip on set. I would give him the basic overview of the scene and what shots I envisioned, then he would go off and grab piles of lights and gear and begin to set it up. I tried to help a little bit, but it was quickly clear that it was easier and faster for him to just do what he needed to do. So, other than assisting when heavy lifting was called for, I would check on makeup, work with the actors on their lines and blocking, re-envision sections of the shot to give better/proper motivation to their movement and interaction, etc, etc. And after a little while I'd hear Jeff say, "Ok, how does this look?" and I'd go look at the monitor and it was always great. Man, what a relief.
We got off to a slower start than I had hoped, but that was because I was expecting to set up 2 or 3 lights, maybe a reflector, and call it good. Jeff was setting up gels and big fancy lights, inside and outside. He had a 2K outside, on a sunny day, shining in through the window, through CTG. I wouldn't have done that thinking it wouldn't make a difference ... now we know why I'm not a professional DP/Gaffer.
So the extra time in setup was good because the indoor scene was where we had to do the heaviest lighting. The exteriors relied primarily on natural light, with a little fill light and/or reflectors as called for so they set up faster.
After we finished the day interiors we had lunch. Subway sandwiches, for those who care, worked out pretty well for us. Let everyone have what they like, allowed for varying dietary needs/desires, etc. Plus they are about a block from the shooting location.
We finished eating, loaded all the gear back into Jeff's trailer then loaded the cast and crew into about 5 vehicles and headed about 10 minutes up the road into the neighboring mountain area. We had previously scouted and found a public turnout that was off the road but had a nice large open space where we could park the cars and it sat right up against the woods.
Now, before I go on, it's important to note that a couple days prior to the shoot the news began reporting expected showers for Saturday (the day we were shooting). It was to be clear on Sunday, our second shoot day, but that didn't help on Saturday.
As we drove the 10 minutes to the exterior location we drove through a heavy rain shower, which included light hail for a couple seconds (yes, it was pretty cold). But, as we got closer to the location, the rain let up until it finally stopped just before we crossed the bridge and turned off on the side road to the location. So we had driven through the rain cloud and were on the other side ... and hoping it was going the direction from which we came.
We scouted out the location, figured out the best course of action, knew we had a couple hours of daylight and focused on the day exterior shots. It went very well, except for the cars that kept driving by ... always after I said "Action" ... didn't seem to be any cars in between shots, only during the actual shooting.
We got the day exteriors finished, then had about an hour until the sun went down in order to shoot the night exteriors. I had estiimated about 5 hours of night shooting. We knew it would be cold, but were all prepared for it, as long as it stayed dry. Jeff walked the area looking for the best "looks" for the shots and set up his 2K on a very tall stand to light up the general woods area and then set up a couple other "fill" lights, I assume.
I made my way around to the various groups of cast/crew to make sure everyone was all right, give them general updates, discuss American Idol, etc. The actors wimped out and jumped in the car, hoping to warm up with the heater. But when they went to turn my car on, the one we had been using for in the shoot, it wouldn't start. Somehow during the hour of shooting the battery died. We jumped it and it started right up, so that was good and we let it run for a while to charge and the actors stayed inside with the heater blasting.
As the sun was just going down and I was getting everyone geared up for the next round of shots, the audio guy asked about the clouds blowing in overhead. I believe his exact words were, "Those are ominous looking clouds coming this way." I smiled and said, "Nah, they're just puffy clouds that look dark cause the sun went down." We laughed and joked a couple more times about the "puffy clouds" and then went on to get ready, both knowing the real potential those clouds contained.
As I walked across the location to get our makeup artist for a quick touchup prior to rolling camera, I noticed some sprinkles on my head. By the time I'd gone another 5 feet it was really beginning to rain pretty heavy. The DP sprinted for his lights, to get them turned off, unplugged and moved into the trailer as quick as possible. As I passed the audio guy on my way to grab one of the lights he said, "Is that puffy rain?" ... funny man.
We got the lights under cover and all jumped into ours cars to wait. I looked at the sky and saw there was no real break in the clouds and the reality was, even if it stopped, we might get set up and have it start raining again. It just wasn't going to work.
So, I made the hard decision to call it a night, which meant we lost about 5 hours of shooting that was going to need to be made up somehow and we only had a half day scheduled for Sunday of which was mostly at night as well. So we had to nights worth of night shots to get in one night .... I didn't know what we were going to do.
Principal Photography - Day 2
Day 2 started out fine, probably because we weren't going to location until around 5:00 pm (which was earlier than the original 7:30 or 8:00 .. I moved it up to get some stuff we couldn't get on day 1 that could be done during day light.
At about 11:00 AM I received a phone call, but the caller ID identified it as PRIVATE so I ignored it. But then they called again right away and left a voicemail this time. I was afraid it might be something to do with the shoot but couldn't do anything at the moment so decided to wait. Then they called again, and then once more. I figured somethign must be wrong and stepped outside to check.
My worst fear was realized when I listened to the voicemail from one of the actors, who we'd shot several scenes with (that we didn't have time to reshoot with another actor) and who was to appear in most of the scenes that were being shot this day, and he had a conflict with work and was not going to be able to make it. My heart sunk...what was I going to do. We were already tightly crammed on the schedule because the project has to be done by the end of March, and we'd already moved the shoot dates to the absolute last day possible because of other conflicts.
I called him back, asked him to see if there was anything he could do to get out to the set and then began wracking my brains. He was unable to get out of his work obligation and so we, the writer/co-director, and I set about coming up with what to do. I told him we need to keep this character in the story, but somehow explain away the fact that we don't see him anymore.
The last time we see him, in what we had shot, he was left behind at the car with one of the other characters. And originally they were supposed to have this big scene and go off into the wodds together. It was easy to work him out of all the other scenes, but this one was a challenge. The writer had a great idea though, and we put someone else in the backseat of the car under a blanket, pretending it was the real character asleep. Then we shortened the scene to just the other character reacting to something she hears and then trying to wake him. When he refuses to wake she goes off on her own. Now we had all the connections tied up ... except one.
There was supposed to be a scene of them all driving in a car to a camping trip and in that drive they are talking about stuff and then the character, whose actor was missing, was supposed to tell the "legend" of Mr. Winters. Well he wasn't there but we still had to shoot the driving scene. So we had the DP sit in the missing characters seat and film everyone else. It is supposed to be like one of the characters is filming what they are doing on his handycam and askign questions etc. The missing character has an off camera line, so we are going to get him to come record that which will establish him in the car even though we don't see him.
So things were coming together, except the legend. But I had the idea to make the "legend" a voiceover during the opening credit sequence and the writer/co-director liked it, so we'll get the missing actor to record that voiceover as well later this week.
So we figured all this out with about 3 hours until call time, so I was relaxing at the house and working out some of the details for the nights shoot ... and trying to mentally prepare for the long, cold night. I forgot to mention, the rain was gone, the clouds were gone, but the wind that blew the clouds away was there, in a strong way. We were getting gusts up to 25MPH and they were cold. But fortunately, by the time everyone arrived on set and we began shooting, the winds had died down to a light breeze and it was actually warmer than the night before, though still cold.
At about 3:00 pm, 2 hours before crew call time, my phone rang. It was the audio guy. Before I go on, I should mention that the audio guy was coming from Mountain View, which is a little more than an hour from our location. Our star actor, David Fine, who was only going to be on set for this days shoot, is in San Francisco, which is between Mountain View and our location, so the audio guy had agreed to pick David up and bring him, because originally I was going to be driving out to get him.
So the phone rings and I answer it, the audio guy has had a legitimate, unexpected conflict come up and will not be able to come. At first I thought he was just kidding, because I had mentioned earlier to him about the actor not coming, but no he was quite serious. I now had 2 hours to make a 2 1/2 - 3 hour round trip drive to get David. I called the writer/co-director and told him what happened and we decided he should come along so we could discuss the final script changes on the road.
We head down the road only to find we are stuck in stop and go traffic, there had been an accident and it really slowed our progress. But we made our way to San Francisco, and made a tremendous amount of progress on revising the script. We got it down to a manageable amount that could be shot in that one evening and still make, we hope, a cohesive story and deal with the missing actor.
Just as we got to the city and were only a couple blocks from the pickup spot, my phone rang. We had already had two disappointments and were reeling from all the changes, so I was hesitant to answer the phone, but I did anyway. It was Rose, the actress from our ensemble. She began telling me how her eyes had gone blurry in the night and when she woke up in the morning was not able to open them. They were swollen and sore and she couldn't see to drive. She said she was going to lay down and ice them, hoping that would help, but at the moment could not make the drive to the location.
My heart sank .... There was no way we could write around this. And, we had David under a SAG contract, so we were paying him for that day no matter what. We were out of time and options, but pressed on. We picked up David, hoping for good news to come from Rose. About 20 minutes later the phone rang, it was Rose ... she said they had cleared up enough she could make the drive. YEAH!!!
I then checked in at the location, with the crew we left behind, to let them know our ETA and the status update. When I mentioned the eye thing they commented that the other two actors, who were already on set, had complained about the same thign. So we believe it was a reaction to makeup. Our makeup artist thinks it was a particular piece of makeup and chose not to use it the second night.
So, problems averted, David picked up, new script plan in hand we rushed back to the set and got there at 6:00 PM ... an our late. But it was ok as our DP was not able to get there until 6 either, so we arrived all around the same time and jumped right to work. We got the car interior during the last bit of daylight, since it was supposed to be day shot.
We then got our ending, night interior sequence shot and then had dinner, Lasagna (a veggie one and a meat one). We also had salad and some nice cakes for dessert. Then we jumped in the vehicles and headed to the woods.
It took us a little while to set up and work out the actual details of our changes, but we soon got to work. I had already told everyone that we would only go to midnight. People had school and work the next day, including myself and I felt we had figured out the core thigns we had to have and focused on those. Knowing any extra time could be utilized to get more stuff if possible.
We got our final take of our final shot and I yelled, "It's a wrap", at 12:15AM ... not bad. As quick as we could we struck the set, loaded everyone up and headed back to town. There were a couple papers that had to be signed, for SAG and then we were done.
Well, mostly. Everyone had to drive home, which was at most an hour. But I then had to load David in my car and drive him to San Francisco, then drive home, try to get some sleep and then drive my regular 2 hour commute to work. I laid down in bed at 4:00 am ... I normally get up at 5:00 AM. So I set my alarm for 8:00 and went in late (thankfully I have a job where I can do that on occasion if necessary).
So, two days, many challenges, lots of fun, great people ... now to edit our footage into a masterpiece.
Production BLOG
Principal Photography - Day 1
Day 1 started out fairly well. One of the first actors to arrive, Gerardo Guitron, went to his car to grab his script and noticed his tire was flat. Upon further inspection we saw a large nail protruding from his tire. The interesting thing was, it was the head of the nail, not the other end, which was stuck into the tire ... ok, not such a great start after all.
Everyone showed up on time, most were actually early. Our DP, Jeff McPhee, pulled up with a nicely stocked grip trailer. Before he opened the trailer doors, I proudly showed him the gear I had managed to borrow, he was polite and smiled as he looked at what I had. Then he opened his trailer doors and I quietly grabbed my stuff and put it into the garage ... we weren't going to need any of it.
I have to say, after having shot a couple short films where I was everything, producer/director/acting coach/wardrobe/front office/back office/catering/craft services/grip/gaffer/etc/etc/etc/etc, it was fantastic to have a DP/Gaffer/Grip on set. I would give him the basic overview of the scene and what shots I envisioned, then he would go off and grab piles of lights and gear and begin to set it up. I tried to help a little bit, but it was quickly clear that it was easier and faster for him to just do what he needed to do. So, other than assisting when heavy lifting was called for, I would check on makeup, work with the actors on their lines and blocking, re-envision sections of the shot to give better/proper motivation to their movement and interaction, etc, etc. And after a little while I'd hear Jeff say, "Ok, how does this look?" and I'd go look at the monitor and it was always great. Man, what a relief.
We got off to a slower start than I had hoped, but that was because I was expecting to set up 2 or 3 lights, maybe a reflector, and call it good. Jeff was setting up gels and big fancy lights, inside and outside. He had a 2K outside, on a sunny day, shining in through the window, through CTG. I wouldn't have done that thinking it wouldn't make a difference ... now we know why I'm not a professional DP/Gaffer.
So the extra time in setup was good because the indoor scene was where we had to do the heaviest lighting. The exteriors relied primarily on natural light, with a little fill light and/or reflectors as called for so they set up faster.
After we finished the day interiors we had lunch. Subway sandwiches, for those who care, worked out pretty well for us. Let everyone have what they like, allowed for varying dietary needs/desires, etc. Plus they are about a block from the shooting location.
We finished eating, loaded all the gear back into Jeff's trailer then loaded the cast and crew into about 5 vehicles and headed about 10 minutes up the road into the neighboring mountain area. We had previously scouted and found a public turnout that was off the road but had a nice large open space where we could park the cars and it sat right up against the woods.
Now, before I go on, it's important to note that a couple days prior to the shoot the news began reporting expected showers for Saturday (the day we were shooting). It was to be clear on Sunday, our second shoot day, but that didn't help on Saturday.
As we drove the 10 minutes to the exterior location we drove through a heavy rain shower, which included light hail for a couple seconds (yes, it was pretty cold). But, as we got closer to the location, the rain let up until it finally stopped just before we crossed the bridge and turned off on the side road to the location. So we had driven through the rain cloud and were on the other side ... and hoping it was going the direction from which we came.
We scouted out the location, figured out the best course of action, knew we had a couple hours of daylight and focused on the day exterior shots. It went very well, except for the cars that kept driving by ... always after I said "Action" ... didn't seem to be any cars in between shots, only during the actual shooting.
We got the day exteriors finished, then had about an hour until the sun went down in order to shoot the night exteriors. I had estiimated about 5 hours of night shooting. We knew it would be cold, but were all prepared for it, as long as it stayed dry. Jeff walked the area looking for the best "looks" for the shots and set up his 2K on a very tall stand to light up the general woods area and then set up a couple other "fill" lights, I assume.
I made my way around to the various groups of cast/crew to make sure everyone was all right, give them general updates, discuss American Idol, etc. The actors wimped out and jumped in the car, hoping to warm up with the heater. But when they went to turn my car on, the one we had been using for in the shoot, it wouldn't start. Somehow during the hour of shooting the battery died. We jumped it and it started right up, so that was good and we let it run for a while to charge and the actors stayed inside with the heater blasting.
As the sun was just going down and I was getting everyone geared up for the next round of shots, the audio guy asked about the clouds blowing in overhead. I believe his exact words were, "Those are ominous looking clouds coming this way." I smiled and said, "Nah, they're just puffy clouds that look dark cause the sun went down." We laughed and joked a couple more times about the "puffy clouds" and then went on to get ready, both knowing the real potential those clouds contained.
As I walked across the location to get our makeup artist for a quick touchup prior to rolling camera, I noticed some sprinkles on my head. By the time I'd gone another 5 feet it was really beginning to rain pretty heavy. The DP sprinted for his lights, to get them turned off, unplugged and moved into the trailer as quick as possible. As I passed the audio guy on my way to grab one of the lights he said, "Is that puffy rain?" ... funny man.
We got the lights under cover and all jumped into ours cars to wait. I looked at the sky and saw there was no real break in the clouds and the reality was, even if it stopped, we might get set up and have it start raining again. It just wasn't going to work.
So, I made the hard decision to call it a night, which meant we lost about 5 hours of shooting that was going to need to be made up somehow and we only had a half day scheduled for Sunday of which was mostly at night as well. So we had to nights worth of night shots to get in one night .... I didn't know what we were going to do.
Principal Photography - Day 2
Day 2 started out fine, probably because we weren't going to location until around 5:00 pm (which was earlier than the original 7:30 or 8:00 .. I moved it up to get some stuff we couldn't get on day 1 that could be done during day light.
At about 11:00 AM I received a phone call, but the caller ID identified it as PRIVATE so I ignored it. But then they called again right away and left a voicemail this time. I was afraid it might be something to do with the shoot but couldn't do anything at the moment so decided to wait. Then they called again, and then once more. I figured somethign must be wrong and stepped outside to check.
My worst fear was realized when I listened to the voicemail from one of the actors, who we'd shot several scenes with (that we didn't have time to reshoot with another actor) and who was to appear in most of the scenes that were being shot this day, and he had a conflict with work and was not going to be able to make it. My heart sunk...what was I going to do. We were already tightly crammed on the schedule because the project has to be done by the end of March, and we'd already moved the shoot dates to the absolute last day possible because of other conflicts.
I called him back, asked him to see if there was anything he could do to get out to the set and then began wracking my brains. He was unable to get out of his work obligation and so we, the writer/co-director, and I set about coming up with what to do. I told him we need to keep this character in the story, but somehow explain away the fact that we don't see him anymore.
The last time we see him, in what we had shot, he was left behind at the car with one of the other characters. And originally they were supposed to have this big scene and go off into the wodds together. It was easy to work him out of all the other scenes, but this one was a challenge. The writer had a great idea though, and we put someone else in the backseat of the car under a blanket, pretending it was the real character asleep. Then we shortened the scene to just the other character reacting to something she hears and then trying to wake him. When he refuses to wake she goes off on her own. Now we had all the connections tied up ... except one.
There was supposed to be a scene of them all driving in a car to a camping trip and in that drive they are talking about stuff and then the character, whose actor was missing, was supposed to tell the "legend" of Mr. Winters. Well he wasn't there but we still had to shoot the driving scene. So we had the DP sit in the missing characters seat and film everyone else. It is supposed to be like one of the characters is filming what they are doing on his handycam and askign questions etc. The missing character has an off camera line, so we are going to get him to come record that which will establish him in the car even though we don't see him.
So things were coming together, except the legend. But I had the idea to make the "legend" a voiceover during the opening credit sequence and the writer/co-director liked it, so we'll get the missing actor to record that voiceover as well later this week.
So we figured all this out with about 3 hours until call time, so I was relaxing at the house and working out some of the details for the nights shoot ... and trying to mentally prepare for the long, cold night. I forgot to mention, the rain was gone, the clouds were gone, but the wind that blew the clouds away was there, in a strong way. We were getting gusts up to 25MPH and they were cold. But fortunately, by the time everyone arrived on set and we began shooting, the winds had died down to a light breeze and it was actually warmer than the night before, though still cold.
At about 3:00 pm, 2 hours before crew call time, my phone rang. It was the audio guy. Before I go on, I should mention that the audio guy was coming from Mountain View, which is a little more than an hour from our location. Our star actor, David Fine, who was only going to be on set for this days shoot, is in San Francisco, which is between Mountain View and our location, so the audio guy had agreed to pick David up and bring him, because originally I was going to be driving out to get him.
So the phone rings and I answer it, the audio guy has had a legitimate, unexpected conflict come up and will not be able to come. At first I thought he was just kidding, because I had mentioned earlier to him about the actor not coming, but no he was quite serious. I now had 2 hours to make a 2 1/2 - 3 hour round trip drive to get David. I called the writer/co-director and told him what happened and we decided he should come along so we could discuss the final script changes on the road.
We head down the road only to find we are stuck in stop and go traffic, there had been an accident and it really slowed our progress. But we made our way to San Francisco, and made a tremendous amount of progress on revising the script. We got it down to a manageable amount that could be shot in that one evening and still make, we hope, a cohesive story and deal with the missing actor.
Just as we got to the city and were only a couple blocks from the pickup spot, my phone rang. We had already had two disappointments and were reeling from all the changes, so I was hesitant to answer the phone, but I did anyway. It was Rose, the actress from our ensemble. She began telling me how her eyes had gone blurry in the night and when she woke up in the morning was not able to open them. They were swollen and sore and she couldn't see to drive. She said she was going to lay down and ice them, hoping that would help, but at the moment could not make the drive to the location.
My heart sank .... There was no way we could write around this. And, we had David under a SAG contract, so we were paying him for that day no matter what. We were out of time and options, but pressed on. We picked up David, hoping for good news to come from Rose. About 20 minutes later the phone rang, it was Rose ... she said they had cleared up enough she could make the drive. YEAH!!!
I then checked in at the location, with the crew we left behind, to let them know our ETA and the status update. When I mentioned the eye thing they commented that the other two actors, who were already on set, had complained about the same thign. So we believe it was a reaction to makeup. Our makeup artist thinks it was a particular piece of makeup and chose not to use it the second night.
So, problems averted, David picked up, new script plan in hand we rushed back to the set and got there at 6:00 PM ... an our late. But it was ok as our DP was not able to get there until 6 either, so we arrived all around the same time and jumped right to work. We got the car interior during the last bit of daylight, since it was supposed to be day shot.
We then got our ending, night interior sequence shot and then had dinner, Lasagna (a veggie one and a meat one). We also had salad and some nice cakes for dessert. Then we jumped in the vehicles and headed to the woods.
It took us a little while to set up and work out the actual details of our changes, but we soon got to work. I had already told everyone that we would only go to midnight. People had school and work the next day, including myself and I felt we had figured out the core thigns we had to have and focused on those. Knowing any extra time could be utilized to get more stuff if possible.
We got our final take of our final shot and I yelled, "It's a wrap", at 12:15AM ... not bad. As quick as we could we struck the set, loaded everyone up and headed back to town. There were a couple papers that had to be signed, for SAG and then we were done.
Well, mostly. Everyone had to drive home, which was at most an hour. But I then had to load David in my car and drive him to San Francisco, then drive home, try to get some sleep and then drive my regular 2 hour commute to work. I laid down in bed at 4:00 am ... I normally get up at 5:00 AM. So I set my alarm for 8:00 and went in late (thankfully I have a job where I can do that on occasion if necessary).
So, two days, many challenges, lots of fun, great people ... now to edit our footage into a masterpiece.
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
BTS & Screen Grabs
BTS & Screen Grabs
BTS
Here are a few random shots:
Leilana, our makeup artist, works on Matt Giacomo (Playing Jake Thompson)
A read through in preparation for blocking. On the left in red is Jeff (playing Rick), I'm in black (playing the director) and on the right in red is Rose (playing Evelyn)
Our DP, Jeff McPhee, and the writer/co-director Joe Bouton (in gray)
"Try it again, but this time with more feeling" ... one of our many takes
Don't worry .. .my car isn't really on fire. Those smoke balls you can buy from the fireworks stands on July 4th (U.S. Independence day for our international folks) make for great engine smoke ... but it's hard to hide the lighter in the actor's hand
Here are all the BTS photos:
Day 1 - http://www.day7studios.com/mrwinters/photos/bts_day_01/
Day 2 - http://www.day7studios.com/mrwinters/photos/bts_day_02/
Screen Grabs
Here are some screen grabs (no CC) from the production (click for the full res image):
BTS & Screen Grabs
BTS
Here are a few random shots:
Leilana, our makeup artist, works on Matt Giacomo (Playing Jake Thompson)
A read through in preparation for blocking. On the left in red is Jeff (playing Rick), I'm in black (playing the director) and on the right in red is Rose (playing Evelyn)
Our DP, Jeff McPhee, and the writer/co-director Joe Bouton (in gray)
"Try it again, but this time with more feeling" ... one of our many takes
Don't worry .. .my car isn't really on fire. Those smoke balls you can buy from the fireworks stands on July 4th (U.S. Independence day for our international folks) make for great engine smoke ... but it's hard to hide the lighter in the actor's hand
Here are all the BTS photos:
Day 1 - http://www.day7studios.com/mrwinters/photos/bts_day_01/
Day 2 - http://www.day7studios.com/mrwinters/photos/bts_day_02/
Screen Grabs
Here are some screen grabs (no CC) from the production (click for the full res image):
mentatDUKE
Veteran
Cool. Looking forward to it. Did you use David Fine in another project? I remember that head shot from somewhere.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Thanks ... I think it will be a fun project.
No, but Matt Sconce (msconce) is using him in his feature film STRICKEN and I believe he used the same headshot in his original announcement thread.
mentatDUKE
Veteran
Ah. That's where I remember him from. Cool. He has a great look.
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Added the poster 
Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
Cool poster, Larry! Looking forward to seeing this.
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
View BTS shots of our first day:
http://www.day7studios.com/PhotoAlbums/Legend of Mr Winters/BTS - Day 1/
http://www.day7studios.com/PhotoAlbums/Legend of Mr Winters/BTS - Day 1/
Robbie Comeau
Como's back. back again
Looking forward to this one!
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Cool BTS pics man! Hope day 2 went well and can't wait to see some screencaps and footage
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Thanks guys .. day 2 was a major challenge, I'll write more about in the production journal on the first page of this thread. I also have new bts shots from the second, and final, night principal photography ... I'll post a link to them soon as well.
In the meantime, here's a shot of our crazy, madman, Mr. Winters busting in on our frightened young teen who's desperate to get help, but the phone's out:
And here he is going through the woods:
In the meantime, here's a shot of our crazy, madman, Mr. Winters busting in on our frightened young teen who's desperate to get help, but the phone's out:
And here he is going through the woods:
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Re-wrote the Day 1 journal entry (just added more information) and added Day 2's entry...on the front page of this thread.
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
I forgot to mention...
While driving through San Francisco I turned onto Sansome Street heading towards the location where I was to pick up David. I noticed more than normal motorcycle police officers and they seemed to be moving vehicles off the road. We kept pressing through as there was no indication that we could not make the pass down the road. We crossed an intersection and I noticed a large crowd of people and these large white trailers with what looked like metal frames of some kind inside, my first thought was these were grip trailers. I pointed at them and asked the writer/co-director what he thought, if this might be a movie set. We both agreed it must be an indie film of some sort and kept trying to see more to figure out for sure. Then he said, "Yep, there's the camera" to which I asked, "Where?". He pointed out my side window and when I turned to look I was looking straight into the lens of a large 35mm film camera. Yep this was indeed a movie shoot ... a big movie shoot. I'm not sure why the street was not blocked off, as they seemed to be looking through the camera. Unless they were just getting set up and we happened through a few moments before the street was closed off. When I mentioned it to David he said it was the Sean Penn film "Milk" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/) ... so that was kind of a cool thing, though I really wish I could have hung out and watched a while.
While driving through San Francisco I turned onto Sansome Street heading towards the location where I was to pick up David. I noticed more than normal motorcycle police officers and they seemed to be moving vehicles off the road. We kept pressing through as there was no indication that we could not make the pass down the road. We crossed an intersection and I noticed a large crowd of people and these large white trailers with what looked like metal frames of some kind inside, my first thought was these were grip trailers. I pointed at them and asked the writer/co-director what he thought, if this might be a movie set. We both agreed it must be an indie film of some sort and kept trying to see more to figure out for sure. Then he said, "Yep, there's the camera" to which I asked, "Where?". He pointed out my side window and when I turned to look I was looking straight into the lens of a large 35mm film camera. Yep this was indeed a movie shoot ... a big movie shoot. I'm not sure why the street was not blocked off, as they seemed to be looking through the camera. Unless they were just getting set up and we happened through a few moments before the street was closed off. When I mentioned it to David he said it was the Sean Penn film "Milk" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/) ... so that was kind of a cool thing, though I really wish I could have hung out and watched a while.
Robbie Comeau
Como's back. back again
Ha, that would be cool to go through something like that. I'm sure a lot of the people here are used to it...
Charlie Anderson
Not so clever
That's like when I was walking in downtown Baltimore and all of a sudden this building blew up for no reason! Who knew Rdiley Scott was filming "Body of Lies" there?
Well in actuallity that's a lie, I was on set the whole time hanging out in video village. I have a few pics around here somewhere if Larry doesn't mind me hijacking
Well in actuallity that's a lie, I was on set the whole time hanging out in video village. I have a few pics around here somewhere if Larry doesn't mind me hijacking
Robbie Comeau
Como's back. back again
HARSH hijack!
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Hijack away ... it'll help keep my thread in the forefront Plus it'd be really cool.
Plus it'd be really cool.