"FALLING UP" a Flyin' Monkey Films production

puckthemad said:
no pressure right? :grin:

We're going to see if we can deliver. It was the one image that solidified in my mind when i thought of the concept, so I'm going to try very hard to get it to work. Might have to trade a few favors in (cheaper than cash) or whore myself out (make the cash back, but my wife won't let me). I;d sell my first born but I already promised him to Google, so no go...
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Hey, maybe you could just feed your actor a whole bunch of iron supplements and use magnetic levitation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation

Or build a set inside the Vomit Comet and shoot it there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_comet

:laugh:
 
arghhh!!! Why don't any actors ever let me use the STAPLE GUN?
They hardly ever hurt... not really. and there's not that much blood. Sams Club going, Buell cap wearing wusses...
 
Tom Marshall said:
Actor.isBadass = true;

Damn it, look what you made me do... :D
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Oh no you didn't. Okay, fine, so you did. You're a man of hidden depths Mr Marshall. We'll be watching you carefully. If you see any people in trees with binoculars, ignore them. That won't be us. (can't climb trees at my age)
 
New trailer up for promo purposes.

Complete Trailer (all 67 films) - featuring music from Justin Ewart

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Maybe now I can really focus on writing.
 
So my morning was almost ruined by my night. Being the sometimes insomniac father of a sometimes insomniac 6 month old has it's downside. I call him my little "Productivity Killer" since my mornings are now spent entertaining him (Evan) and trying to get into some kind of work groove. Last night I wanted to crash and Evan wanted none of that. For the first time in months, he's decided that he'll be sleeping in 2 hours shifts. Oh and instad of waking up at 10:30 AM, he's going to be up at 7:30 AM. Sharp.

There went my night and any thoughts I had of sleeping in and catching up on my sleep.

Add to that the fact that all he wanted to do this morning was play, climb, practice standing up, play, look out the window and the snow, practice climbing some more oh and finally practice his whole "chemical factory" routine. The stinky kind o "chemical factory" if you know what I mean. For those that don't, I'll be clear: poopy diapers.

BUT there's a different side of this. For all of the joys of fatherhood, there's at least the upside that while I'm distracted by Evan: I can't be distracted by anything else! So I'm sitting with him and playing and thinking about how he's going to be running before we know it, and oh by the way, should I maybe get a leash
(leash)
for him? After all he's going to be a runner and for the first time maybe I could actually appreciate those leashes
(leash)
that I always see on kids.

It was like something was trying to tell me somebody.

Then it clicked.

The idea of how to solve my actor stapled to the ceiling, expensive set building, tricky SFX shot problem. You know the one I've been talking about.

I finally had a solution and it was indeed elegant, and truthfully a lot more human and real.. poignant even, than the orignal shot. So it's rewrite time.

I'm going to hammer out the next draft and get the plot points, the humanity of it in first. Then we'll do another run through and get the dialog as funny as the situation.

Right now though, it's time to write.
 
The imagery of something like this on film is till quite interesting though:

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I got an estimate on a warehouse I was asking about and it's a little ridiculous. Might as well get a BIG storage unit for a month and build the set in there for the price they;re asking.

I swear, people hear the word "movie" and think we're all made of money or something. The general public tends to forget about people like us. That we even exist.... somewhere on the periphery of broke and not so broke.

Cost for warehouse, $300 per day, including construction days. And we're looking at possibly 14 days on the good side of things. This doesn't even include having to get space heaters since it's a warehouse and all... or contruction material, plus labor.

Maybe it's for the best that the rewrite is in progress.
 
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