My Soul To Keep - presented by Easy Water Films

Yes, Vermeer! I have had a life-long love affair with this painting. I finally found a chance to borrow even just tid-bit from it.

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It's complicated!

Hey, I have a few actor friends in your area. Let me know you ever need help in that area. I maintain an international actors resource as well. I'm hoping to bring this one to NY someday ...

http://guerro.wordpress.com/noemi-besedes/


I'm sure looking forward to see what you do for this fest. I really liked your last entry - a lot.

Alex
 
What a beautiful complication?! Thanks for your offer to help. Regarding my non entry this time, please look message 71 in the thread from Pauli the Hitman.

Susanne
 
Wow, missed that one. Bummer. Getting married is no small event. You're excused - this time!!

Well, in that case I look forward to your always-thorough and always-honest comments of the upcoming films.

alex
 
Hi Everybody. Long time viewer, first time poster. Chris told me I should make an appearance on this post as my first official act as producer of the film. I told him I wanted a script first. The pages I received sparked my interest and imagination in a way that reminded me of nights spent hiding under my covers wondering if that noise was the wind or something else. I really want to see this film be something special and will do my part to see that the audience experiences what I did on that first read through.

I feel I know many of you already and look forward to continuing to learn from you and hopefully you from me. I've enjoyed your films and being a part of past fests.

Best to you all and I'll see you on the other side Chris.

-Fitz
 
Hey Fitz, Alex here.

Looking forward to seeing this. Brooklyn is a great kid and a great actress. I'm sure you'll enjoy working with her.

First post! Wow! A big welcome.

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Chris and I think we may have found our composer. We both really respect his work and are excited to hear what he can do for the picture.
 
A location is being scouted on Wednesday. It's a bit off the beaten path, but a definite possibility Will post pics asap.

-Fitz
 
Yesterday Bryan and I scouted the first possible location for My Soul to Keep. Please, journey with me as we relive the event through snapshots and witty comments.

The location that we're looking for is a cemetery with a very specific look. To that end, Bryan found one that's in the middle of a state part. Founded in the late 1800's and pretty much not in use anymore. It sounded perfect, but there was a catch. Even though Bryan had been there before he couldn't remember where it was exactly in the state park. He had an idea, but wasn't sure. So, throwing caution to the wind, I loaded Bryan up with the camera equipment, grabbed a bottle of water, and off we went.

We started on a trail, which was nice. But then the trail ended, which was bad. Being undeterred by this turn of events we decided to keep going, stepping our way through all manner of vegitation and spider webs, all the while quoting lines from Raiders of the Lost Ark at appropriate times.

After wandering around for probably 40 minutes we happend upon a clearing with a map of the park.

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Bryan expertly read the map, trying to reconcile it with his two-year old, hung over recolection of where this cemetery was. After deciding the next general direction that we would travel, we noticed this sign:

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I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.

The good thing about the park map is that it kept us on a trail, so no more brush, wildlife, or Raiders quotes. Thankfully we happened upon this bridge:

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Which allowed us to being a whole new seriese of quotes from Temple of Doom.

We continued on, seeing some pretty amazing scenery.

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And after a while we arrived at the cemertery. Pictures Photoshopped for ambience.

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It's definitely an interesting location, but I'm not willing to pull the trigger and say this is where we're shooting yet. Once we mapped the way, it was fairly quick and easy to get to, but it's still quite a hike and lugging equipment up there doesn't sound fun. It also doesn't have all of the elements we need for the shoot, so we'd have to find a second location for some parts of the script. We're going to see if we can find one location that serves all purposes. We also shot some footage of the trek and I'll cut that together and get something online ASAP.

I'm sure Bryan will chime in with his own version of this story, but suffice to say I pretty much had to carry Bryan through the rough parts of the trails. There was also one point where he fell, getting his leg pinned under a rock slide and I had to amputate it and fashion a prosthetic with twigs, bark, and bailing twine. We saved the leg and once we got back into the city I reattached it with a needle and thread. He should be fine in a couple of days.
 
There was also one point where he fell, getting his leg pinned under a rock slide and I had to amputate it and fashion a prosthetic with twigs, bark, and bailing twine. We saved the leg and once we got back into the city I reattached it with a needle and thread. He should be fine in a couple of days.
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LMAO! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
krestofre said:
There was also one point where he fell, getting his leg pinned under a rock slide and I had to amputate it and fashion a prosthetic with twigs, bark, and bailing twine. We saved the leg and once we got back into the city I reattached it with a needle and thread. He should be fine in a couple of days.
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What's that 'ol adage ...

You can't take the woods out of the man, but you sure might be carrying the man out of the woods.

Great job on the re-attach. Boyscouts really has added some great new tricks to their handbook. All I ever got was how to sew a sit-upon, and make a fire with a magnifying glass.

Love the pics, but yeah, I can see a few logisitcal issues: equipment haul, kids and moms, food and bears.

aw
 
krestofre said:
I'm sure Bryan will chime in with his own version of this story, but suffice to say I pretty much had to carry Bryan through the rough parts of the trails. There was also one point where he fell, getting his leg pinned under a rock slide and I had to amputate it and fashion a prosthetic with twigs, bark, and bailing twine. We saved the leg and once we got back into the city I reattached it with a needle and thread. He should be fine in a couple of days.
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Chris... wow and I thought just going to the doctor to have him remove the sewing from my head was dangerous... :laugh:

You can tell me all about it over lunch...

Just thought there is an old Civil War graveyard... north of town off of farm road 173 or 181... I'll look it up for sure... not to far off the beaten track (about a 50' hike)... just have to frame out the farm to the north... but it has tons of trees around it...
 
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Speaking of quotes from Temple of Doom... "What a vivid imagination."

This story reminds me a bit of Walter Mitty. Come on Chris, the last time your skin saw that much UV light was before You Only Film Twice was a twinkle in our eye.

Seriously though, Chris and I had a great time "exploring" the uncharted landscape before finding the clearly marked trail and have been paying for it ever since with chigger bites. On top of scouting the location of the cemetary we got to be kids again on an adventure, if only for a few minutes. :-)

I agree that although the location was beautiful and suits the feel of My Soul to Keep, it may be too remote to transport cast, crew, and gear. So we'll have to back burner this location for now and maybe just use it for some establishing shots.

We're lining up a couple of more locations to scout and will visit them sometime next week.

Fortune and Glory,
-Fitz
 
Gary, If you can get more details on that location, I would love to have a look at it.

Thanks!
-Fitz
 
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