"Corrado" - A production blog

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Originally Posted by Brandon Rice
In my opinion the good really outweighs the bad in the end, just wait until you see your film released in stores, it's an amazing feeling.
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And I so wanna be first in line !!!!!

Between all the fabulous information and drama in this thread; you've got us all feeling like anxious grandparents!
 
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It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do. And I will do it again, only better next time.[/B]
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Better at the things you were bad at. That opens a whole new can of worms of things to do be bad at......

After 15 years in the music studio business and endless hundreds of projects later, I'm still amazed at the stuff I learn with each new project.
 
Happy Birthday, mate! All the best for this, the 35th year of your life. What are you drinking tonight? I'll pick up the same for a toast (if I can find it here in Japan that is).
Good luck with the reshoot. I suspect that's kind of exciting too, right!?
Cheers :beer:
Sam
 
Hah! A happy birthday indeed. I spent all day in LA again - run to wooden nickel and meet the gaffer, pay for some lights, pick up the shoulder holsters at Gibbons, run down to HD Camera and get the remote FF, run to downtown to do one last prescout, and field 3 calls from so called "angry" vendors on Broadway who claim their business will be disrupted and thus want to be "compensated".

So funny, I'm so on to the shakedown ransom trick I don't even respond to it now. I just laugh, a great big belly laugh right into the receiver.

Here's a great one:

Orpheum: I got your filming notice. What are you filming??

Me: A walk and talk down Broadway. Two actors, one steadicam.

Orpheum: Well you need to have a contract with us in order to film on our property.

Me: I'm filming on the sidewalk. It's public property.

Orpheum: Will you be having the Orpheum in the shot?

Me: Probably, fleetingly but not intentionally. We are filming on a street after all. We will see things besides the sidewalk.

Orpheum: Our building is trademarked. If it's in th shot you will be contacted by our lawyer.

Me: That's nice.

Orpheum: We'll be here until 5:30 to sign contracts with you.

Me: Ha! Don't hold your breath!!!


After that I got a call from Film LA, I guess the angry Orpheum chick gave her an earful, but Film LA backed me up and said I was allowed to be there.

I tell you, the shakedown is alive and well in LA. No wonder Film LA registered 23% fewer productions this year. No one wants to film around here because of all the people.

I also want to take this opportunity to reverse my stance on permits fees as far as Film LA is concerned:

Film LA is the biggest bang for your buck to an indie production in the LA area. Those guys work their asses off for you, they run around posting their ubiquitous "filming in the area" signs, they field angry calls for you, and they are in your corner when it gets ugly.

They have backed me up and made others back down. They are a filmmaker's 800 pound Gorilla. As long as you have paid your permit fees, which are pretty meager, you are good to go. Someone hassles you - tell them to shove it in their ass and call Film LA - they will not get a much better response there. And the cops treat Film LA permits like the sacred Gospel, so you are double covered.

My hat is off to you, Film LA.

And thank you, DVXUsers, for wishing me a happy birthday!
 
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Happy belated bro, I have read the thread in a while, I gave up on it, (which I hoped you hadn't glad your back though) Any way I've been down because all the bs grunt work I have to do to pay the bills (event filming, music videos, commercials) as opposed to going broke making my own movie. Anyway, my confidence was in the toilet. But after reading the last couple of pages in the thread, especially you getting everything worked out with the distributors, you helped me get my swagger back. Thanks bro, on to edit more grunt work now, lol
 
Reshoots were going really well yesterday until the evening when we got shut down by the cops at USC.

It turns out that even though I had a Film LA permit, that the little slice of land we were standing on belonged to the state and was under the authority of the California State police, an authority I hadn't even heard of (didn't they merge with the CHP????) Anyways, they said we needed to have a California film commission permit, which I've also never heard of.

We had just been setting up for the first night shot so I suppose all we lost was time. I thought I was covered, but oh well.

They sent 3 cop cars out just in case we were building nukes instead, I guess.
 
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