"FALLING UP" a Flyin' Monkey Films production

Fresh new start to a brand new year. We're ready to roll.

So after my week in New York (very long drive with a 7 month old in the back seat) I managed to grab some of the gear that I'd forgotten Ii;d even had in my dad's basement. My old Bogen 3066 head and legs, and some other stuff like a video distributor, a mixing board, my sennheiser boom... you know: little stuff. Makes me wonder what I was thinking leaving all that stuff there, but oh well. Now it's with me.

I've spent the past week getting gear ready. I've made a couple of flags, improved my dolly and got some new track (40 ft now),checked lights and replaced bad bulbs, got gels from Production Services (2 half rolls) here in Toronto and scheduled actors.

Tomorrow we shoot the first sequence in the movie and then the supporting footage for the Bubba Bradshaw Show. We'll also shoot some quick clips of commercials for the opening sequence. One of the commercials is for t-shirts and the "Robots Don;t Wear Pants" will be amaking an apperance there on a very sexy model. Some other clips are planned,but you can catch some of that on tomorrow's podcast.

Should be fun and I'm looking forward to gettign started. Woo hoo!
 
I don't know if I authorized the use of my slogan there guy! lol jk

You don't need my well wishes, just know that if you fail I'll hate you forever!

Rogan
 
Thanks Mike. Good to see you're back in the fray. Now we'll all have to compete for 3rd place. :grin:

No worries Dustin: failure is not an option. I'm going all out on this one: most shots are dolly and jib, or jolly OR jib. I've had more time to conceptualize because of those damn snow storms and I think we're going to have an awesome product. Now to get Production Design completed tonight. I already know what I need to "rent" from Walmart and Home Depot...

New Ppodcast is up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqxv0IH4Ut4
 
Yeah, good luck with the shooting tomorrow, man. :thumbsup:

And Mike's not entering this one, so I think everyone is vying for 2nd... :D
 
Okay, headin goff to the set tonight to do some cleanup and set dressing. Hopefully it's not too much of a mess. I'll be podcasting so you guys can share my joy and misery. Hopefully MORE joy. I'd say there'd better be beer involved, but it's my shooot so I;ve got to do the buying. Dammit. Oh well: on somebody elses shoot then...

Jake is on his way so I gotta pack up the basic essentials. Gotta call Kegan and see about borrowing some light stands off him.
 
Production Day #1

Production Day #1

Setting up the location on Friday night turned out to be one of the best decisions we made. I was scheduled to pick up James at the Sheppard and Yonge subway station at 8:00AM, and Jake was going to be on location at 8:30AM.

Got James, hit the highway and immediately got lost becasue I took the wrong exit. I had printed Google directions, but the most important thing about getting directions is actually READING them. So we ended up going south about 10 miles early. One call to Jake fixed that, but not before we had driven into snow and discovered that driving in Toronto and finding your exit is not as easy as you think it is. Damn express lanes took us almost back to my house. Funny thing is 5 miles osuth it was snowing... and back on the 401... no snow.

9:30AM we finally arrive to find that Mark and Jessica have already reached the location before me. I introduce everyone and Jake heads out to pick up the Hynotist (Franco). Most os the grunt work had been done so it was fine tuning the set and getting all props into place. Costumes were designated, coffee was drunk and much work done.

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The cast of "Falling Up". (left to right: Franco, Jessica, Bubba, Mark, James)

I was glad that we had both my Altman kit and Jake's Flo kit becasue we had such wide area to cover. The main shot was for the opening sequence where we open on the "Bubba Sean Show" on a tv and pan over to Rachel (Jessica), who then turns and walks towards the set as we dolly to foolw her, then Crane past her shoulder and to Frank (Mark) being hypnotized by The Hynotist (Franco) with Bubb Sean (Bubba) waching in the BG. Easy right?

Three hours later...

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Jessica Sinclair in position #1.

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Camera at rest between takes. Dunno what James is doing

We had to get the main actors (Mark and Jessica) out of there by 3:00PM for them to get to work on time. James was catching a ride back with Jessica and Mark (helps when they all know each other) so we had to scratch the segment we were going to shoot with him. We decided that we could get the rest comedy troupe involved in shooting some hilarious commercials for the opening sequence and we'd come over to his place next week (Tuesday I think).

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Still setting up the shot. A very patient Jessica.

With them gone we broke down most of the equipment and set up to shoot the supporting footage of the "Bubba Sean Show". The guys came up with some interesting characters and Jake had a few more actors come in to shoot alternate characters for the show. The main one was the Hynotist anad that segment is going to be used as a bit of promotional video for "Falling Up" and part of my LossFest promotion to get more people interested in what we're doing over here.

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Nicky poses for the "commercial"

One final actor (Nicky) showed up around 7:00PM and we shot the last segment of the "Bubba Sean Show" and then a little 15 second commercial with Nicky vamping quite nicely for the camera.

Went home, passed out. Uploaded the podcast. Now go watch.
 
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