"The Dustin Rogan Project" -- Dustin R. Rogan

We'll have to get together next time we get paid, and all pitch in our 25 cent paychecks to get some stockings to put over our faces so we can rob a homeless man, hah
 
here is the image I made for the shirts. All are welcome to make/or get made your own shirts,hats or thongs (for your g/fs not yourself). I would like you to PM me a pic though if you do!

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Thanks,

Rogan
 
Ok...so today is a start of something new for the ol' Rogan....I've been a smoker almost since I graduated high school...(8 years) and I've had enough...maybe I should shoot a short on my progress...too bad I don't own a camera myself...or i'd make some....anyhoos...bought the patch today...and for good measure I'm running around with 2 on. I usually smoke 1 1/2 packs aday btw...so yeah this is going to be tough...and I get angry when this happens so lets hope the patch works.


Any other former smokers on here with any tips?

Rogan
 
well nobody ever quites the same way. cold turkey doesn't work in most cases, since you're depriving yourself of somethign you want, andthe more you can;t have it.. well the more you want it. What worked for me was setting up a schedule for when i could have a cigarette.... like limit myself to 4 cigarettes a day and only have it at those set intervals... eventuallly cutting back... after a while I actually would forget about those intervals until one day i realised I hadn;t smoked at all.

Then it became like once per week... then less and less.. until i wasn't smoking anymore.

...Unitl I started to shoot my first feature and it all went to hell...
 
Dustin R. Rogan said:
here is the image I made for the shirts. All are welcome to make/or get made your own shirts,hats or thongs (for your g/fs not yourself). I would like you to PM me a pic though if you do!

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Thanks,

Rogan
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hey, do you have that without the TRDP over the top? I'd like to try out designing an alternative with the TRDP somewhere else (if you don;t mind)
 
The wind noise really hurt the comedy -- I needed a second viewing simply because I realized I hadn't heard a lot of the jokes people were talking about in this thread. Somehow the wind just made me tune out the dialogue at parts.

Hidden behind the wind is some seriously funny material. And while some of the fest-specific inside jokes are good for a laugh, I think the material could have been abstracted to be a humorous short about film-festivals or filmmaking in general. This was all in good fun, but it clearly has a limited audience. You can definitely write some funny stuff, and I'd love to see more.
 
Dustin R. Rogan said:
Ok...so today is a start of something new for the ol' Rogan....I've been a smoker almost since I graduated high school...(8 years) and I've had enough...maybe I should shoot a short on my progress...too bad I don't own a camera myself...or i'd make some....anyhoos...bought the patch today...and for good measure I'm running around with 2 on. I usually smoke 1 1/2 packs aday btw...so yeah this is going to be tough...and I get angry when this happens so lets hope the patch works.


Any other former smokers on here with any tips?

Rogan
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There were some threads in the Cafe recently about this. You should take a look. Good luck!

Duff,

I agree about the wind, but in all fairness, Dustin cannot control nature. He did put an effort fourth to try and get the noise reduced, too, but it just proved impossible. Did it affect the viewing expirience? Sure. Can we complain about it? I don't think so.
 
Well, we could have been more prepared and had a windscreen ready. When we shot mine a few weeks later, we knew better so I went down to Austin and rented one. You live and you learn. I don't think we'll ever make that mistake again.
 
Duff said:
This was all in good fun, but it clearly has a limited audience. You can definitely write some funny stuff, and I'd love to see more.
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I wrote this specifically for DVX. I prepped myself for the wind comments, and know it prolly hurt my chances for higher stars, but like Jason said, live and learn!

Thanks for watching!


Rogan
 
The Dustin Rogan Not Smoking Report
Day 1:
aahh...day 1... I actually did pretty good for a guy that smokes like a pack plus a day. I only faultered 1 1/2 times. I'm very optimistic about how things are going thus far. I felt a little anger a times...but I tried to control it. Heres to another solid day!

Rogan
 
Congrats on holding back. I would suggest completely getting rid of all your cigarettes. Just tell yourself NO. I read somewhere that someone put a little card in an empty box that said NO on it so everytime they would pull it out out of habbit, they would find the card. :grin:
 
Dustin!!

If only you had decided earlier, they could have asked the future you if you still smoked. I'm still laughing - at your film, not at you giving up smoking. I just saw it for the second and third times and it shouldn't but it does: it works! That final scene will surely go down in the annals of DVXuser.

I gave up smoking last November. It sounds silly, but I would think of the smell of really nasty dirty ashtrays when I wanted a cigarette. I never tried this, but maybe actually having one to stick your nose in might help too. Good luck.

Jason
 
Dustin, I've seen the complete cut to the ending of your flick and I've got to say you cut out the best part...
 
I stopped smoking 18 month ago and I did it on new years day after a night where I consumed I couldn't remember how much alcohol and how many cigarettes. I felt bad for days and I wouldn't have back this feeling. This helped me for the first time. Afterwards died a very good friend of mine. He was a very intelligent nice person and only 42 years old. He was a smooker and died, because he had cancer. Although it was a very sad motivation to not restart smoking, it worked very well. That means hopefully nobody of your friends will die, but only to think that it could be happen is perhaps an motivation. I have to admit that some friends of mine are smoker and I always enjoy it to have them near by me when they are smoking, still today! Good luck!

Susanne
 
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shawneous said:
Lol, yes!!!! This is awesome!!! Lol, wow, f1cking love it.

Love all the cameos too. We now know who should play 'Curly' in a Three Stooges movie, JDS!!
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Thanks for watching! It was funny the first time I saw the footage JDS and the Dude called me from Cali at 10 my time, woke me up.

If my memory serves me right the convo/my thoughts went something like this...

Ring Ring...
(Rogan reaches sleepily for the phone, doesn't recognize number)
Rogan: ugh....hello?
JDS: Is Dustin Rogan there?
Rogan: This is him, who is this?
JDS: Jack Daniel Stanley and Mark Johnson we have you on speaker
Rogan: (long dramatic pause, Rogan trying to put it all together, due to being half asleep, finally putting them together) HOLY F*CK! Hey....umm...whats up
(How the hell did JDS get my number....oh i think i gave it to him...maybe
JDS: We've shot everything and have it ready for you to download, but we wanted you on the phone when you watched it for the first time
Rogan: Umm, ok sir (seeing as they are figures I highly respect and such, I must call them sir)
JDS: heres the url........
(I go on babbling about some kind of music I was listening to when I went to sleep...which happened to be the day I PM'd Herman about a future project and I left my laptop on his website with his music playing....then the Dude chimes in, and yes i've fallen asleep to Hermans music more than once)
The Dude: Rogan are you drunk?
Rogan: LOL no, nevermind...ok watching now

(anyhoos... watched it laughed my ass off, after the fest I'll post the full version of what they sent me I think its funny as hell!)

This fest has been an awesome learning experience and has given me great confidence as a film maker and making me rethink my "style" of filmming. I've gotten such a great response for the "comedy" (or as I like to call it Life) If our comedy idea fits the next fest I believe it'll be far better than TDRP...but who can go wrong with ninjas and my nice a$$. But our more serious idea will be awesome, far better cinematically than anything we've done thus far!

Rogan

PS I :love4: JDS and the Dude
 
Blaine said:
Dustin, I've seen the complete cut to the ending of your flick and I've got to say you cut out the best part...
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will be posting full version on vimeo and putting link up on here for all to see. The time wouldn't allow me to put it all on. but I agree
 
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