Sleep Walk - a Dustin Rogan film

I personally would make Rodney dress in a penguin outfit and say stuff like
"Oh hi I'm Penguin, and I like to talk alot. I have such a big ego, that I have to put a quote in my signature that says how great and awesome I am to be around"

Or I'd actually get things done on this movie, instead I'm showing you my smiley boobs on MSN messenger...lol

Rogan
 
Well its the eve of Sleep Walk shoot. I am excited to get this film underway! I went to check on the location that the majority of the film takes place. It was everything I wanted and more! I just hope I can sleep tonight! Well better go over my shot list one more time make sure I got everything I want. Woot!

Rogan
 
Dustin R. Rogan said:
I personally would make Rodney dress in a penguin outfit and say stuff like
"Oh hi I'm Penguin, and I like to talk alot. I have such a big ego, that I have to put a quote in my signature that says how great and awesome I am to be around"

Or I'd actually get things done on this movie, instead I'm showing you my smiley boobs on MSN messenger...lol

Rogan
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I don't have a big ego! I just like putting pro-Penguin quotes in my sig that make me feel good. :)

Oh, and good luck on the shoot. Wish I could be there.

...

On second thought...maybe I CAN be there...virtually, of course. You have a new laptop with a web cam and I have a computer with a web cam. Hmmmm....
 
interesting thought there penguin...I'll look into it...

I just realized I hadn't done one of the props...so it'll be a long night for this guy. I may not sleep for reals... :D

Anyhoos, I'll be checkin on this thread as well as others throughout the night

Rogan
 
Sleep Walk is a wrap!

The day started out very very smoothly...lets just say us Wacoans have now been officially kicked out of a place, and we didn't go quietly...I almost got into fisticuffs with the owner and the mantince man. But I settled down and appologized to the mantiance man. But in my defense he looked at me wrong and you don't look at Dustin Rogan the wrong way when he's pissed off.

Ok, so it goes down like this, I have to stop by Wal-Mart to pick up a few extra props, no biggy. Give Gary the card to get the hotel room (of which I'd gotten permission from the lady the night before, she said "I don't care what you do in there, just as long as you pay the $40) So great I told her I'd be back the next day about 3pm'sh. Well my actors showed up about 30mins early, to drop one of their cars off and just ride together (because I was off at another location with the other two actors) They told the maid that we'd be back when we come to shoot the movie. Well apparently she thought we're shooting a porno or something...blabs it to her boss, the mantinance man is calling the cops to see if one of my actors cars had be reported stolen...and the maid told Gary and Matt that The "Big guy in Black" was kidnapped by the little guy (those guys being my main actors...then the owner yells some more...Then the maid starts to drag a prostitute saying "she wanna be in you porno" or something like that. Then I show up and we start unloading getting ready to shoot the majority of the movie in the hotel room. THen I get a guy comes into the room unannounced "Who is in charge of this thing" (when you say that...speak with a redneck accent) I said "I am, whats the matter?" "The owner would like to talk to you, he is very spooked about this situation". I said "ok, I'll go talk to him"
So i go to talk to him, and he said, "We do not want anything to do with this!" I said "excuse me?" "This filming you are doing, you will not do it here, we will give you credit, then you have to get out, now" I said, "hold on hold on man, I came in last night when Linda was here, and she said it'd be perfectly alright for us to shoot, here." (i'd explained to her the story of the movie and she said it'd be fine, just pay the money and we're good to go) "This woman has no authority to say anything about this, I am the boss I say yes or no! Now get out" He printed my credit slip, and I asked him to sign it so I could get his name and proof he'd kicked us out and he was "crediting" us. He yelled at me "I will not do this, this is what we do, we credit with this paper, I am not signing anything" Go now!"

ENTER ANGRY DUSTIN, do same scene over again...but with hellfire coursing through his veins... and referring to the one location of Sleep Walk as a $hit hole to the owner...yes in hine sight prolly not the wisest of choices...but yeah he was a dill weed (insert harsher word) I said screw this guys lets go shoot this one scene, then go eat then go find another hotel...we found one about 10miles outside of waco...that little asian lady was a god send compaired to the devil was just with. And to top it all off I got 2 hours of sleep...I am tired...will hopefully post pics up of when I remembered to take them with my phone tomorrow.

Rogan


EDIT

only had 4 pics taken with my crappy camera phone...but here ya go

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Wait!! So you're using the "crotch-cam" effect too? Oh man! My whole film was relying on that technique!


Not sure what to do now. My whole story is told from the POV of pants.

:)
 
So, I'm in the motel room downloading P2 to my laptop, when I find out we've been kicked out, so I say just another five minutes. Well, the squirrel maintenance guy is standing in the door, wanting to know why we're not moving, and I tell him I need just a few more minutes on the computer. He runs over and says "What are you downloading from the TV?" It was too sad to laugh. We joke about the shallow end of the gene pool, but its another thing entirely to wade through it.

Fortunately, Rogan regrouped just fine and we finished the shoot.
 
Holy ****-balls dudes! You guys are off having adventures of the Wacko Waco kind and I'm spinning my wheels idly. Damn that sure sounded like fun. Sorry I missed it.
 
So I pretty much went to sleep after I posted this and woke up at 2pm this afternoon...I was dead tired. We were all tired. And I thank my fearless crew of Dick Campbell, Gary French and Matt Bravo for sticking with me through it all. And they didn't b*tch about going over a couple hours when I said we'd be done by 7or8pm. But we got it done!

And my amazing actors, I thank you (if you're reading) They were cool with everything. Going with the flow of having to change hotel rooms that were many miles apart. They were still smiling after it was all said and done.

All in all I think we got a good short here.

ROgan

PS. Mr. Campbell did an amazing job playing the part of the boss in the short! David Wiseman his assistant, always a pleasure to work with! Great job all around.

PSS now time to get to editing (jason call me when you read this so we can get with Dick who has my footage on his harddrive)

PSSS It was fun Rodney wish you were here to enjoy the lower end of the gene pool with us that is sadly much of Waco lol
 
made a few alterations to the poster...and put it back up.

will hit the editing sometime this week and get some grabs. Can't wait to edit with HD woo!

Rogan
 
Good work Dustin...congrats to cast & crew on what sounds like a successful shoot!
Looking forward to another DR Production.
 
Fantastic story. More detailed than the one I got over MSN. Sorry you had to put up with that ****. Oh, and Dick, what in the hell WERE you downloading from the TV? :huh:



Kidding...obviously...
 
lol, Looks like I get the footage tomorrow morning from Dick's hard drive then Jason(thewho) hits the editing...then I come in and tell him to do it all over again...

and for those who haven't figured it out... this is a serious piece... my other entry (that isn't an entry anymore) will be the sequel to my polished turd you may refer to as TDRP. Once Rodney gets into town (mid Octoberish) we'll be filming all week. And will bring more laughs and more characters into the mix of my chaotic universe!...anyways this thread isn't for TDRP2 so enough about that...don't wanna give too much away. With that said, I should have a few screen grabs up by the weeks end for Sleep Walk

Thats all for now...now go eat a sam'ich!

Rogan
 
Love'em! Great grabs...and a serious film? WOW, this promises to be good.
(at least there are pants on this ass shot...but could you please cast a woman next time?)
 
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