"THE TRADE" a Flyin' Monkey Films Production

Okay boys and girls: looks like we're going full-tilt-boogie on this baby as of tomorrow. I'll be flying back into Atlanta next wednesday for some paying work, so we're wrapping this baby up in a bow and getting it done over the weekend. Plan is to have Jake start on post-sound by monday so we can get it mastered sometime around wednesday-friday.

Replacing the guitar player, but he's gonna write us some music for the film and the replacement actor is just gonna have to fake the song... however we can do that. I might even have to write some lyrics...

Oh well. Time to get my last phonecalls in so we can make sure we have the alley locked down and actors set.

Update: alley is locked and we're good to go.
 
So we wrapped today. More grabs to come. Then I'll see how many pickup shots we'll need and if we'll need to reshoot. jake just opened up sunday for a shooting day, so if anything needs to be redone, sunday is the day....
 
Justin R Duban has just committed to scoring the project for us, so I'm really excited about what he's bringing to the table. Busy guy.

Prepping to fly to Atlanta this morning for the "Blood &Ccoffee" shoot. Looks like "The Trade" will be wrapped up just in time for me to start production on "B&C". I can only hopel that production goes as smoothly as it did for "The Trade"
 
"The Trade" is locked and ready for upload. Amazing: I actually finished a film early and way before the deadline.... pity about "Blood & Coffee" but I'm in. Yay and hurray.
 
puckthemad said:
"The Trade" is locked and ready for upload. Amazing: I actually finished a film early and way before the deadline.... pity about "Blood & Coffee" but I'm in. Yay and hurray.
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Hey, you finished one film. Yah, it's too bad about B&C but you're good to go! That's all that matters.

Cheers,

Mike
 
It's an example of how one bad actor can bring down a whole production. It was an actor who I had never worked with before but he came recommended from a friend... he could act but his attitude sucked and then when after shooting for an hour he decided that he wanted to renegotiate his contract... in other words he wanted to be paid when it was made clear from the outset that it was a free gig. Accusations were made that I was going to go off an made a ton of money on the internet from this movie and... well it was getting ugly at that point, so I kicked him off the set and then had to have a bit of a cooling-off period.

Still pissed me off to think about it. And he was the least experienced of the actors, 2 of whom are working professionals.

Anyway, that's over with and we'll have to schedule another round of production. We've already invested a good change, so there's no way we're going to not finish.

Anyway, thanks for the good thoughts. You guys should get a kick out of "The Trade" and just have to watch B&C after the fest...
 
Wow... isn't that a pisser. Actors; can't live with'em, can't fit more than two of'em in the trunk!

Looking forward to both films!
 
Oh wow! How did I miss this thread? Beautiful grabs. Aren't fog machines the best? Good looking cast - they all look like pros.
 
Good job on your film. Actors were really good. It had a nice Twilight Zone feel to it.
 
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