"FALLING UP" a Flyin' Monkey Films production

rehearsals

rehearsals

so we scheduled our first rehearsal for tomorrow night over at jessica's place. should be a fun get together and they'll get a chance to stretch out and have some fun with the characters.. see what fun things we can come up with to keep it fresh and funny.
 
Mark Rivard is being like uber-cool right now. He's volunteered his house as the main house location and he's gonna check with his roommates to clear it with them. I'll get photos of it later. His band My October is ALSO providing one of the songs for the soundtrack (feels weird to say that about a short: soundtrack) AND get this: his girlfriend is a photographer and she's going to take some photos for the production tomorrow. So we're scheduling some cast shots and the ever important poster shots for tomorrow, as well as rehearsal.

I love it when people can get so involved. It gives them a sense of investment and they're willing to do everything they can to make it better. Now just wait until ADR comes then I'll see his true worth. Muahahahahha!
 
Making good use of that stapler I see. :laugh:

Cool video man. You're really planning the hell out of this thing. Right on. :beer:

Oh yeah, I dig your background music. :)
 
i've got stapler magic! Actually using Magic Tape for now. We're supposed to be getting a new bulletin board for the wall, but it's never big enough.

and I'm tryign to plan as much as possible, so all of the work is done. having a bit of fun since I usually dont have this much time normally unless it's for a paid gig.
 
I went and shot my podcast number 1 today. Came back, captured wrong, (not used to DV anymore since I've been working with HDV) haha, and then I just said screw it I'm not doing this.

It's weird watching my self on camera..

Robbie
 
I just shoot on my little Kodak digicam. it's small, light and goes almost everywhere with me. record to MPG files that are easy to edit. if its too much work you;re not really goign to bother....
 
U love me...you really love me

Nice shirt by the way...i love it when my g/f wears mine to bed hehe

Note for your podcast....can't hear you over the music through most of it.

Rogan

ps i'm not that much of an attention whore am i?

(don't answer that)
 
First chance I;ve had to finally wear the shirt on camera. I actually wore n on the set of "Act II" and then again on "Unbecoming" but we were running around so much we forgot to get any decent BTS shots. I'm still kicking myself for that one cuz for an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) or even a printed Press Kit, they always ask for Behind the scenes and on location photos.

And yes Dustin: you are an attention whore. In fact you are an attention slut cuz you don't even get paid for it.

attentionslut.jpg
 
So today, we have a delivery from UPS. I'd finally gotten around to getting my morning coffee (this was 2:30PM and it was a very active morning so yeah it was my first cup of the day) and there's this knocking. All I want to do at this point is finally drink my coffee, but at the sight of the UPS driver I forgot all about that. I was about to be reunited with my camera and lights and stuff. I'd felt kind of neutered the past couple of weeks here in Toronto without any gear, especially with my HVX off in ATL working without me.

So unpacked it all and I'm now making an inventory of what's here, what's in ATL and what I can replace/rent here in Toronto. One of the barndoor holders on the 1K snapped off, but I think that happened at the last shoot. Gotta check with Dave to make sure of that. But everything powered up and is good to go so now I gotta keep with preproduction on Falling Up.

Now that I have the lights, I'm going to try to schedule some actors for a greenscreen shoot on wednesday. This is for some of the on set stuff. We're going to have a "Judge Judy" type show playing in one of the scenes, so we're going to record some footage of actors and composite all of this together. Do a quick and dirty edit, enough to be believable for the on set tv and we're good to go.

Tomorrow I hope to lock down the locations. Wish me much luck.
 
The Bubba Blackstone Show

The Bubba Blackstone Show

so a slight change has occurred in the script, due to the difficulty of location. There is a snow storm coming in to Toronto this Friday and apparently it's going to be a bad one. So it looks like my plans for shooting the courtroom "Judge Judy" type show are now completely up in the air. Friday is going to be bad and so will saturday (so there go my exterior shots). I was about to just postpone the entire thing until January/February after we shoot "In Black" and spend a little more time in pre-production and getting the perfect house, and while it looks like we're to have to do that anyway, an opportunity to get some important footage haas presented itself.

According to how things go we should be able to scrap the location of the banquet hall and get a much cooler shot than what was written. The scene as it is written is for a hypnotist at a banquet hall... and then that's the last we see of that location. This new location allows us to refer to it further on in the script. Now instead of him being hung up on watching "Judge Judy" we've created a new character "Bubba Blackstone" and a television show to go with it.

We've got this awesome basement location with vintage 70's furniture that we've been dying to use for ages, so we're going to make that the set of the "Bubba Blackstone Show" complete with Jake's old television camera to give it the feel of a tv show filmed in a guy;s basement. accordng to how we dress the set it could look bigger, but I'm planning for makign it look like authentic cheese.

So we'll film two episodes of the Bubba Blackstone Show, one where Frank is hypnotised, and then a much later show that Frank will be watching on television at his house.

And we get the first shot of the movie out of the way.

Time to go shopping: I still need some gels and it's harder to get them here in Toronto.
 
This sounds interesting...is this the same basement you were going to use as a "porn shop" set a few fests ago? ...or am I remembering something else?

Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing what you put together for this one! I also feel the storm thing, it always comes right across the state and hits us here in upstate NY too. We still have people without power from the ice storm last Friday. (and I have 3 trees down in my yard...they missed my house by THIS MUCH!)

Happy Holidays & best of luck in the New Year!
 
actually it's another basement. Bubba's basement to be exact. We'd dhot a music video there a couple of months ago and had really dug the place. It wasn't until me and Jake were kicking around ideas for shooting the some of the courtroom stuff in Bubba's basement and using this great big deask he's got as a prop (think Judge's office) that it clicked: we could just change the whole set up and get somethign cooler going on.

The pornshop set is still ready to go in jake's basement. we just have to assemble it. You'll eventually get to see that set once we get around to spring/summer, but that's another story...

Good luck with the snowstorm dude. We get the snowstorms AFTER they lay chaos and damage on upstate New York, so if you're feeling it, believe, me: so am I. Hope no more trees come looking for you.

Happy Holidays to you too and keep us informed with the goings on for "Miss Laid"
 
Merry Christmas everyone. Dunno if I'll have time between now and Frday to update, so getting it out in the open. MERRY BEERY CHRISTMAS.

We've had a ****-ton of snow come down on our heads over the past week, cancelling our weekend shoot (very depressing) and pushing it back to this weekend. Unfortunately our lead actor is out of town this weekend, so it looks like we'll be getting the basement set up with lighting and props etc and shooting an episode of the Bubba Show. We'll just have to shoot with Mark when he gets back into town. And that will be for the real thing. This weekend, we'll just be going with the naked HVX Lens for that cable access show look.

Now I gotta go check with the weather and see how much I pissed of Thor and that ***** Khione.. and hope there's no more snow heading my way. Of course calling the snow goddess a ***** isn't going to help my case any...
 
Driving down to NYC from Toronto today. Heading towards Mecca (B&H Photo) while I'm there. My wife may have other ideas about what's "important to see", but no way I'm going back to NYC without one visit.

Maybe I'll take pictures.
 
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