"Corrado" - A production blog

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Hey Adam! Thanks for posting that link.
Real nice...and by 'nice' I mean BADASS. I am hanging for when we can get to see your movie!
How is everything going in post btw? Working on sound for a picture like that would be a dream for me!
Good luck again.
Sam.
 
taormina said:
Thanks Dan!

Are you back from NY??
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Hi Adam:

Nope, still here. Going down to the Circle Line today to film the new Waterfalls sculptures that just opened this week under some of the big bridges, then have to film some other landmarks in the city. Getting back into town next week.

Take care and good luck with the post schedule.

Dan
 
Just occurred to me, but when you sent scripts out to professional actors/agents, does it matter if the script has camera directions written in it? (Like a James Cameron script for example)

Or is it expected to still be in "spec" form clean of any camera notes?
 
Gohanto said:
Just occurred to me, but when you sent scripts out to professional actors/agents, does it matter if the script has camera directions written in it? (Like a James Cameron script for example)

Or is it expected to still be in "spec" form clean of any camera notes?
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I put camera directions in my script to a limited degree, but then I was also shooting it. I suggest leaving out camera directions in spec scripts.
 
metro2307 said:
Adam,
Could you explain the purpose behind the cameras side by side? I assume for coverage, angles and zoom, but what were you getting in that shot exactly?

Love the CNN stuff! BTS is always great to see...
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We used two cameras in most of the movie, most of the times the setups on each were radically different. Occasionally, when we needed to get something important that we could not redo, like squibs - we would put them side by side with different lenses.

In the case of the machine guns, we had one tight shot and one wide in the same take for time's sake.

In the case of Tom shooting Joe in the chair, we had one camera behind him and one camera behind Joe's head to catch the spray from the squib.
 
taormina said:
Today part of the CNN piece went live on the CNN site. Not sure when it will air yet.

It's more gun centric than I thought, but still shows behind the scenes on Corrado pretty well.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/26/guns.in.america/index.html

Click on the link...it is the square on the upper left with the slate on it.

The article has been tweaked a little for the supreme court decision, but it is my set they are on and they did a cool job.
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That's a great video. Congrats on getting some publicity on CNN. :)

Has Luis seen this? Towards the end of the clip, he's on the screen with that big face helmet on smiling like a... umm... :D
 
yeahfilms said:
awesome coverage, adam

i'm your first crazed-fan, i'm pretty sure i got the exact same suit that sizemore is wearin' for my prom haha: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c169/yeahfilms/DSC05775.jpg

correct me if i'm wrong!:2vrolijk_08:
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Man, that is so close to what Tom was wearing. Except Tom's had really fine yellow pinstripes that you can't see unless your close up to it.

I do know that it was a Dolce and Gabbana suit, though, and cost him $5000!!!!!:Drogar-SunGlass(DBGLOL!!!
 
Gohanto said:
Noticing this from earlier about calling agents, how simple is it to start a production company from a legal standpoint?
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Really easy. I used a service called Portsurf Interational. It's an online service. Had a California LLC within 2 weeks.
 
So today I rendered the first complete rough cut. This is the first time I've seen the movie with all the scenes in it. It took 14 hours (!!!) to render.

TRT right now is right at 80 minutes without the complete opening sequence or end credits, which of course are counted in the run time of the film. I expect Corrado to be a solid 84-85 minute movie when completed - about the same as Transporter 2.

Besides a handful of techincal mistakes I need to fix, there are still a couple shots I need - one exterior of the car driving, one shot of the LAX sign. A couple time transitions.

Minor stuff I can get in a couple hours.

Otherwise, the movie looks good - I'm happy with it. Almost ready to go into color correction and post audio.

I'm striving for picture lock by mid next week.
 
taormina said:
So today I rendered the first complete rough cut. This is the first time I've seen the movie with all the scenes in it. It took 14 hours (!!!) to render.

TRT right now is right at 80 minutes without the complete opening sequence or end credits, which of course are counted in the run time of the film. I expect Corrado to be a solid 84-85 minute movie when completed - about the same as Transporter 2.

Besides a handful of techincal mistakes I need to fix, there are still a couple shots I need - one exterior of the car driving, one shot of the LAX sign. A couple time transitions.

Minor stuff I can get in a couple hours.

Otherwise, the movie looks good - I'm happy with it. Almost ready to go into color correction and post audio.

I'm striving for picture lock by mid next week.
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Cool stuff...

14 hours to render? Wha??

It takes me about 1-2 hrs to render any video effects, and then 3-4 to render the MPEG2 file for DVD...

And the film I'm rendering is 30 min. longer...

Wonder why it takes that long... there should be a way to do it quicker.

So, you going to watch the full cut? Excited?
 
Dude, I know it.

Sony Vegas - what can I say. I posted this question over in the Vegas forum and everyone said that was OK.

Although it does render everything in one pass. Sounds like whatever you are using renders it in half the time of what I have. I'll look into it further.

I watched it and am excited, although now I'm dying to get good audio and cool color. I can't wait to hear music as well, every movie needs music. As of right this second, I am happy. I know what could've been done better, but I am happy.

Thanks for asking Brandon!
 
dude, it takes me 24hrs at least to render out a cut of my new film (around 80min of 720p) but my excuse is a really far outdated powerbook g4 (represent!) lol-adam
 
worried about your running time at all? if my rough cut was barely feature-length, i'd be worried I just shot a short or a pilot. the features i've been intimately involved with usually trim about 20 minutes as they progress from the first cut to picture lock. 80-90 minutes is actually my target TRT for Heart of Now -- for a variety of reasons. i guess my real question is this... what's the shortest TRT you'd be comfortable with in terms of what a distributer would find acceptable?
 
Rough cut is not the right word then. My edit has had 5 passes already and it's tight. I had a few scenes to plug in and now they are in, there is no further cutting required. Corrado as a finished film will be in the 84-85 minute range.

You have to be close to movies in your genre: Transporter 2 was 87 minutes, and is in my genre. Other examples: District B13 (84 mins) Cloverfield (85 minutes) , tons more are in this range. Very normal for action movies. These figures include opening and closing credits.

I am very comfortable with that length and so are my distribs.

I really wonder how you could cut 20 minutes off a rough cut, though...that is alot of material and I've never had to do that in anything I've edited. Corrado was a 91 page script, and thus fairly close to it's minute / page count.
 
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