"Last Touch" - a Norm Sanders film

Norm Sanders

Norm Sanders

Script Wrangler
DIRECT DOWNLOAD OF THE FILM TO VIEW: http://dvxfest.day7studios.com/loss2009/Last_Touch-Norm_Sanders.mov


TAGLINE: Opportunity Only Knocks Once
TAGLINE (alternate): How far would you go for true love?

LOGLINE: A guilt ridden husband, begs forgiveness from his wife for the car accident they were in; praying their current circumstance could be changed.


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CAST
David Kubiczky ................. Rick
Megan Powers ................. Dawn
Tim Jaeger ........................ Dr. Stone
Shelly LaFrance ................ Female Nurse
James Donaldson ............. Male Nurse


CREW
Norm Sanders ................... Director / Producer / Editor / Story
Jeffrey R. Hawley .............. Writer / Story
James McGuire .................. Story
Steven Dempsey ............... Directory of Photography
Justin Durban .................... Composer
Steve Waters .................... Chief Electrician
Jared Rogers ..................... Swing / Grip
James Donaldson .............. Associate Producer
Alan Smith ......................... Boom Operator
Stephanie June Johnson ... Makeup Artist
Shelly LaFrance ................. Location Manager / Prop Mistress / Wardrobe
Simon Höfer ...................... Post VFX Artist
 
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Production Journal

Production Journal

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Principle Photography of "Last Touch" shot & wrapped

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Steven Dempsey, Director of Photography, captures all footage & gets it into U.S. Postal system for delivery to Norm Sanders, Director, to begin rough cut.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Norm receives hard drive from Steven. Will begin editing after Thanksgiving. Temporary poster posted, as well as thumbnails/screen grabs of non-cc'd footage.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Norm begins sorting footage for rough cut. Rough cut edit begins.

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Norm still laboriously works through rough edit, while in the midst of looking for work ... and Christmas shopping (an awesome combination!). It should be noted that Norm has a very linear editing process, so by the time the 1st draft is cut (rough cut), it's usually pretty close to a locked edit. Hoping to have the locked edit out for further post work within the next week (Score/VFX). Have rec'd extremely positive feedback on the edit, thus far.

Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Have uploaded the full edit for review by Steven, and to get a second eye on the film. Current run time is approximately 8 minutes. We'll have a full length cut, and I'm quite confident we can have a solid 6 minute cut of this as well for the LossFest. Once the locked edit is in place for the full cut, I'll immediately cut the 6 minute version (1-2 days, tops), and send both to Justin, having him score the 8 minute, then lap that in hopefully without too much work for the 6 minute version.
 
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Frame Grabs & BTS

Frame Grabs & BTS

Non-CC'd screen grabs. Click on a thumbnail to view.

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Due to limitation of 9 images per post, click the following links/posts to view random BTS pics:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=1481000&postcount=36
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=1481000&postcount=37


Additional Frame Grab(s)
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=1497054&postcount=57


Previous temp poster by Steven Dempsey
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=1498863&postcount=60



Check back for more updated BTS soon....
 
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Hey, Norm! You're not acting in this one?
Can't wait to see the grabs! I see that you have already shot this puppy. Nice work. :thumbup:

Simon and Justin on board = Awesome.

Really looking forward to this one.
Best of luck, man.

Cheers,

Mike
 
I have to say I love working with Norm. He has the exact same sense of dry wit that I do and it makes both of us appear like we are little evil elves on set :)

This was a very ambitious shoot but we managed to get everything done. I've got a tungsten tan on the back of my neck to prove it. A good cast and crew is important to the final film, of course, but they also make it a much better experience in production. What a great bunch of people, all willing to jump in and do whatever was necessary to get the job done.

Although I was completely fatigued at the end of the day, when I woke up Monday, I wanted to do it all over again...so that's saying something.
 
It's about time! :)

Good to see Steven was the DP. He's a madman. :evil:

Oh cool, Simon too... I'll look forward to see what he brings to the table...
 
Thanks, Steve, it was awesome being able to work with you again, this time in a more direct fashion (for everyone else, my first & only other time was on Fat Monster's Vienna Music Video Shoot, where I was in front of camera only).

And nope, I'm not in front of the camera at all on this one. Simply wanted to focus more on directing only, and see how it turned out from all my past experiences, where I've tried to balance both sides of the lens with acting as well. Quite frankly, I don't think I had the guts to try & tackle the material that David was so adept to anyway ... it was a VERY challenging role. Everyone was pretty spent at the end of the shoot.

I'm working too, right now, but will do my best to get some grabs up that Steven sent me before the end of the day. Steven, you're more than welcome to post something here, if you want, and I'll do up the front page with some thumbnails, etc. later.
 
Yeah, this was clearly the script we had HOPED to shoot for TwilightFest, but since the subject had already dealt with the idea of loss, we got it approved for LossFest ... worked out perfectly, since actual production didn't start until after the 17th (took us forever to obtain the hospital location - WHICH, BTW, we found out is supposed to be haunted - this, of course, was AFTER we started setting up, lol).
 
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