Fellini Directs Again!

The shot list is complete. I have enough shots for a 90 minute movie. Now comes the make up and costumes -- got to find someone who can help there. Help!
 
Shoot start date is Wed. 17th, 2009 in Hollywood. I need make-up, costume and camera operator(s). If you have an impressive camera rig, I can use you as a production team in the movie. This is a felliniesque movie where reality and dreams are one. So it's going to be lots of fun. Let me know if you're available on the date above.

vic@felliniesque.com
 
I will be visiting the set today and make sure everything is where it belongs. The painting will be done by Tuesday. Production start is Wednesday. I will get some stills by Thursday here and start editing in the weekend. I will try to post a clip from the first day of shooting. Hopefully I'll get some feedback here.
 
Thank you! I'm counting on luck, you're right :-) I checked out the set today. It's better than I expected. I'm going to write some new scenes tonight, so I can best take advantage of what's available to me.
 
I'm wondering what format to shoot. Let me know if you have advice. I'm shooting with the Sony Z1U camera by the way. So which of the setting is best for the web as well as for DVD. I'm not thinking of making 35mm prints from this project because it's too avant garde for that.
 
"Although many resolutions and formats are supported, most consumer DVD-Video discs use either 4:3 or anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio MPEG-2 video, stored at a resolution of 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL) at 29.97, 25, or 23.976 FPS."
So basically any miniDV or better camcorder would be OK for DVD,they record in 720x576,resolution is not a problem for DVD today.Then its 720 and 1080 resolution,but it will be downscaled for DVD anyway.And i dont know how other but i dont enjoy watching 1080 res film in my browser,it slows down a lot.
This sony doesnt have real progressive,it has some interpolated modes to achieve that,i dont have idea how it looks but if this is suppose to be filmic ,i wouldn shoot in 50i or 60i,you can conver that to 24p later yes but it wont be the same,some frames will be dropped,new ones will be created,its important to record this in progressive,so camcorder saves one picture at a time ,not two pictures combined with each other as lines(interlaced)you wil get too much motion blur in 50i and 60i and acting will come out fake and not convincing.Its better to do some heavy testing before shooting anyway.
I believe with shooting on film you dont have to be worried "is this looks like film or not?" cause it always looks like film,it adds to the quality,with video camcorders its harder to get this professional look of the film.
 
I agree a hundred percent with that assessment of film vs. video, but thank you for clarifying again for me some of the differences in digital acquisition. This being a felliniesque movie, I'm going to forgo the film look considerations. I make these movies just to stay sane; I know the only real filmmaking is in 35mm.

By the way, I have incredible deals on rawstock -- a whole feature film for under $5,000. (That tells you what's my budget for digital moviemaking :-)
 
Yes ive seen your website,where i can find your latest work shoot on film ? I just saw 2 trailers from your 80's films.
 
I don't have trailers on a lot of my films; but I will be posting them more and more, now that I've decided pretty much to sell online.

The distribution and exhibition business has pretty much changed. The old formulas of making a genre movie with one or two name actors doesn't work anymore.

The distributors don't pay back the money invested; the market for such films just isn't there anymore.

But the 20th Century movies sure look good as trailers. LOL I'm going to post some after I begin the shoot on Wednesday.
 
It's going to be solo filmmaking all the way. Fellini Directs Again! is one day away from production~

I will report the details as soon as I've gotten some rest and whipped a teaser reel.
 
Fellini Directs Again! tomorrow morning production start date!

Going through check list tonight
brainstorming one last time...
 
HiG wrote: how many actors are you working with? How long do you expect the shoot to take? Do you have a finalized script?
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I was trying to work with about 20, but they did a disappearance act on me; I believe it's the electronic submissions process. Actors are submitting to multiple auditions per day and then picking the ones they most want to attend, so there are a great many no-shows.

I decided I can't work like this. I'm going back to hard copy submissions exclusively. At least an actor or actress who have gone to a few hundred dollars of making pictures and resumes are more apt to show up when called to audition.

So I'm back to do another casting call before I roll cameras.

I was planning on a short shoot, but it looks like it will become a long shoot, considering that I have to go back to weekend and night shooting. I have the time but actors don't have the time anymore; they need to work day jobs in order to survive. That's just the reality of it.

And, script ... it's out the window: can't maintain it; it's no point in sticking to it; this is a no budget movie to be shot in digital. Digital is really only good for experimentation, because even time is money. There is no point in doing anything based on a screenplay in digital, as there is no point in wasting money on experimentation.
 
Most people are flakes, thats the bottom line.

Have you seen Inland Empire. Shot on Sony hpd150...Highly experimental. David Lynch swears he'll never go back to film.
 
Wow, thanks for bringing me up to speed; I had almost given up on the American avant garde. This is really good, HiG. I checked this work out on Youtube. I'll have to rent it now.

Thanks again for the encouragement.
 
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