"FALLING UP" a Flyin' Monkey Films production

Fun group of people! Seems like you guys are having a lot of fun. That's what it's all about! I'm really excited to give this fest a stab too.
 
Come on in! Join the party! And if a guy named Rogan approaches you and asks if you wanna see some buttshots... well, up to you...
 
I need to raise some money for the next LA screening too... gas isn't cheap and it's going to be at least a 5 mile drive... :evil:
 
I was planning on selling Rogan's ass to the highest bidder. Gonna be his pimp. Any bidders?

I'm gonna have to fly to LA for the next screening.
 
Tom Marshall said:
I need to raise some money for the next LA screening too... gas isn't cheap and it's going to be at least a 5 mile drive... :evil:
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Just put your feet through the holes in the floorboards of that old Mustang you have & 'Fred Flinstone' it there! :)
 
Thanks Alex. Jessica has been a huge part of the design process and she and Mark have to constantly remind me that it's a comedy we're shooting. They ask for costume, I say "something black", they say "comedy!", i say "gimme color" and what you see in the trailer happens.

Think I'll need to use more lights to light up the set on the production shoot (tomorrow). I'm still skewing towards dark, but at least the trailer was a good experiment (on location to boot) and I have a fairly good idea of what we can do to help the color and lighting schemes as well as bring out the set design even more.
 
Rendering out the tv screen footage that will be playing in the background tomorrow of the Bubba Sean Show, featuring Sean Bradshaw. Biggest thing will be syncing the video up to the action so a few continuity problems might occur. I'll be looking for those in the meantime. Not too worried.

Gettign all of my gear ready for the shoot and I'm considering going handheld on a couple of the shots, but that's only a last ditch, desperate circumstace. Space is a little tighter thanI would have liked, but the shots remain pretty much the same, just with a few adjustments.

Still gotta get a few props picked up tomorrow, like the weight boots, but we'll just rent those from Walmart.

Biggest worry tomorrow is sound and I'll be double checking that we have the mics placed appropriately tomorrow. I don;t have a sound tech tomorrow since I can;t afford to pay anyone and most of the guys here want paying, which I can totally respect, since I'd also want to get paid in a similar circumstance. Helps when you have friends nearby to help out like in Atlanta or Houston. Unfortunately here in Toronto it's about mustering as much crew as I can and that's currently me and Jake.

Here's to a smooth shoot tomorrow, and if not, well the podcast should most certainly be interesting. Unedited, Uncut, Uncensored.. just like last time. Even if I look like a total ass.


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Day 3 is wrapped. I have to say that this is definitely the most time I've ever put into a production. My shoot ratio is now officially through the roof, but we've got crazy coverage from all over the place. I think we just have only shot 2 pages today, and most of that was spent shooting 1 1/2 pages for the opening scene.

More later.

Later: If there's anything that I've learned from today's shoot is this. No matter how much planning you've done ahead of time, storyboarding, shotlists, 3d renderings... whatever. NONE of it counts if you haven't nailed down your location and gone in there with a camera and shot test footage. If like me, you didn;t get your location until the last minute, don't dick around about it. Make it your top priority over anything else to get in there with the camera you;re using and with a mind towards production and SHOOT something, even if it's only your 1st AD fooling around.

We lost quite a bit of time this mornign because of the above scenario. I didn't know the location, so my shotlist meant absolutely nothing. I got cocky that I could just wing it and get a nice shot and that's just stupidity. First off, the dolly and jib shots that I had written for a larget location, which we didn;t end up getting, well they were all out the window. Turns out I ended up using the shoulder support system I built last week anyway. That and I had to break my dolly down into the base components to make a mini-dolly slider type of contraction that meant I killed yet anohter hour building. While it worked, it wasn't something I should have been building on the day of the shoot. A system like that should have been planned for and perfected way ahead of time owing to the location. Had I known about the tight corners I was insistent on shooting around, I would have done this.

Okay, enough beating myself up. Now I know what went wrong and how I can fix it, I can plan for the shoot later this week. Most of those shots will be the brevis handheld or on the dolly. The jib shots will be singluar shots and not mixed with the dolly footage. the location simply is not big enough for those kind of shots.

We had a good shoot and we found our groove, so day 4 will be a heck of a lot better.

As soon as we can schedule it we're good to go.

BTS Shots are available on the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=37642857286&ref=ts. Check em out to see our shenanigans.

Podcast will be up in a little while. Then I'm off to edit.
 
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