"PAIRED"- A Fifth Click Film

Sorry to hear about your setbacks, but keep on plugging away at it. You may find that all the last minute changes work out in your favor. I had to schedule an additional shooting day because we got behind schedule on our original shoot. In the end, I was able to get more material and a couple of picks ups for shots we missed the first time through.

Good luck!
 
thanks Amy! I think our team tends to be pretty good at making its weaknesses into strengths, so we'll see what happens. Luckily our shoot schedule is already pretty deep into the competition (Oct. 10th-12th) so I think we'll be fine, we just gotta get back up on our feet and running before then.
 
MOVIE MASTER said:
Paired is that like paired?
Like diffrent color socks?
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Uh oh! They're catching on! :)

So, just for quick updates... we're obviously one of the late-shooters for this fest, but its finally coming together. Last night we re-finished casting (the original female lead couldn't make it back from another shoot in California early enough...so we recast and now found someone new). Our new female lead doesn't have acting experience, but she has done some professional modeling, and I think she'll work just fine for the part. I'm a big believer in the idea that the most important part of succeeding is showing up and wanting to do it. This girl seems like she's really excited about this so I am, in turn, excited to work with her.

Anyway, the entire shoot happens next week... Friday and Saturday evenings from 7 onwards. At the very least, we're going to have a total of 6 hours in the location.. we tend to be really efficient (team of only 4) and we've shot a 9 minute movie in 6 hours before... and that was a little more dynamic than this setup, so I think we'll be fine. Just keep telling myself that. We'll be fine.
 
blindbuzta said:
Good Luck!
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Thank you!

So I got back from the first shoot about an hour and a half ago... wow, it was great but we didn't get as much finished as we hoped. Luckily, the attendants/store owners love the production so they're letting us use their facility for at least 1 more day in the next week. We're taking our time with this film to make sure its really really gonna entertain everyone! The laundromat we're shooting this film in is a real-live-operating laundromat... oi vey! But the attendants and patrons seem to love the production stuff so they just watch and try to talk to us whenever we call cut. :thumbup: Anyway, we've basically got everything done for scene 1 except for some cutaways, and maybe one reversal... but the master was what killed us. Its basically one of the longest dialogue pieces and it took us about an hour just to get that one shot (not including the camera/light set up time). But the film is looking great, and our color pallet/color research is really helping! Plus- did I mention my crew and talent are the best people on earth? Anyway! Heres a grab

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Maximus said:
This production looks top drawer! :thumbsup:
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Thanks! Unfortunately that shot was rushed so its a little wobbly :crybaby:. We're probably gonna have to back and get it again. Our team consists of a total of 6 people... Myself, the director of photography, a producer/asst. director, a sound guy, and the 2 actors... I don't understand how I would even operate with many more people on set, or why I would need them. Anyway, thanks again! I may post another grab from tonights shoot around midnight again! :beer:
 
A little "wobbly"? But was the ACTING good? That's all we really care about. Maybe the wobblyness will give it more energy?

Hope it goes well! Looks great!
 
Haha I would have to say the actors were very good, especially for the first shoot. Acting in front of a crowd of eager laundry do-ers can't be that easy either.

Can't wait for tonight's shoot!
 
yeehaanow said:
A little "wobbly"? But was the ACTING good? That's all we really care about. Maybe the wobblyness will give it more energy?

Hope it goes well! Looks great!
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Thanks! Haha, you don't have to worry about his acting-- Jason is perfect for the role... he's doing an AWESOME job.
 
So today, we shot some much needed shots to fix Scene 1, got all of Scene 3 done and now all we have left are Scene 2 and 4... which should take less time overall because there is no dialogue and thats whats been slowing us down most of the time. Overall, production has been going great-- the actors are doing very well. I felt like they were both much more comfortable in their roles today, so they were even more smooth than the day before. I'm very pleased with how this project is turning out. Heres a grab-

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woohoo! Just finished cutting the dialogue!

On Wednesday, we go back one last time to finish principal photography. Should be fun, theres no dialogue- two montage-esque bits and a final scene to complete. If we shoot as well as we did during the second shoot, we'll finish no problem. There are a couple shots I would love to go back and get, but we'll see what kind of time we have Wednesday night. I don't want to have to ask my actors to come back for another shoot...primarily because they both live an hour away, and I'm not paying them THAT well. Anyway, since all the dialogue has been shot already and ..now... has been edited, ADR will also be done on Wednesday, before the shoot. However, our sound guy is busy when our actors are available so I'll be doing it solo. If we have time before the shoot... I may also grab the only VFX shot in the entire film while the main actor is still at my house. Tomorrow is prop day- I'm finishing 2 major props for the final day of shooting... I would show them but they'd give too much away.

About editing- the laundromat has a radio blaring in the background so obviously it would be completely out of the question to use the field sound whatsoever...its good because it forces us to ADR. However, the constantly changing song in the background does make my edits more pronounced, so watching through my edited scenes, I felt like I had done a horrible job. However, when I muted them and rewatched, they felt SO much better. I can't wait to see how good it turns out when we've got good audio to help smooth the cuts as well. I'm super excited just to see my own film haha. :)
 
Second grab looks out of focus on the background (girl)

I guessed the A1 and I was right. Color seem to look good in this. Crushed blacks, and nice depth.

Where's your ZOMBIE FILM!

Robbie
 
Robbie Comeau said:
Second grab looks out of focus on the background (girl)

I guessed the A1 and I was right. Color seem to look good in this. Crushed blacks, and nice depth.

Where's your ZOMBIE FILM!

Robbie
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Your right, but they were quick grabs and the focus is following her-- she just turned around, so the focus hits her in time for her line.

My zombie film is lost to the depths of history-- due to my old hardware crashing :( . I have no digital copies of it, and only 1 dvd left.
 
Sorry about the long wait everyone, but I've been crazy busy these past couple days. So, on Wednesday, we had our third, and (supposidly) final shoot. We had the actors stop by a couple hours early to complete ADR for the entire film (the last scene had no dialogue) and to get the couple visual effects shots down. The crew then loaded up and went to the location. We quickly found out that the relaxed, easy going attendant who was supposed to be working had been fired a day earlier, and now we were stuck with a (much) older, grumpy, married couple who were obviously only fill-in employees... i.e.- relatives of the owner/supervisor. Now, this shouldn't have been a problem because we do infact have permission to shoot there after 7 when we need to because the place basically empties out. Anyway, so, we started shooting under the watchful eye of these attendants for about 2 hours. We have a couple shots left till we wrap that are crucial for the film and we're all saying "we're gonna finish, we're gonna finish." Then, out of nowhere, the older lady attendant comes up and says "The owner just called and says we should close up early." Now, immediately, I know this is B.S.- they've been trying to leave since about 8 and they just wanted an excuse to leave once there when there were no customers. But of course, I'm polite and just request 30-45 more minutes, telling them that our actors have to drive about an hour just to be here and that we don't want to have to make them come back for ANOTHER day just for an hour of production. The woman promptly says they can't go against the owner's orders. Then I tell them I will pay them and they can just close shop but still get paid for their time if they stay with us another hour. They repeat the line about the owner's orders. So at this point its pretty obvious-- you aren't leaving because the owner told you to, you're leaving because you don't care about the pay and what to get out of here early. Anyway, I immediately offer my actors a 30% pay raise for a final shoot, which they agree to, and begin to pack up. So, at this point, we've got 90% shot and edited, all the ADR recorded, the color has already been locked, just waiting on the fourth scene, and the visual effects are also nearly completed. All we have to do is finish that last darn scene and edit throughout the week to finish this up. The next time the actors were both free was Tuesday, the 21st, so thats the last shoot. Then I have 6 days to finalize editing, ADR, and sound design.
 
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Cutting it close... but I'm sure you can get it done! Hang in there. This is looking good. I'm a people-person, but sometimes...don't you just hate people? No worries, you handled it totally professionally and hey, Karma will take care of that older couple someday.

Best of luck...looking forward to the film.
 
ZazaCast said:
Cutting it close... but I'm sure you can get it done! Hang in there. This is looking good. I'm a people-person, but sometimes...don't you just hate people? No worries, you handled it totally professionally and hey, Karma will take care of that older couple someday.

Best of luck...looking forward to the film.
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Thanks! Yeah, it was funny, I had an entirely different film that I was planning on making when twilight fest first was announced. But, money and time issues came about, so I dropped out. Then, i came up with a good idea and decided to check the dead line. Then, after figuring out I had about 5 weeks left, I came up with an EVEN BETTER idea and ran with it as fast as possible. We always knew we'd be cutting it close, but now that we're hitting the final push, I'm really feeling it. Anyway, thanks for the support! I hear you've got two films in this fest? I'm excited to see both!
 
Wow. That really gets me angry. I'd like to have a word with the crotchety couple.

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I love the first teaser still.

Excellent!
 
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