FLOWER a flyin' monkey films production

What exactly is going all 'Ed Wood!'

Are you meaning to do cheesy effects? Give it an intention B Movie 50's vibe. Personally I don't think thats a very good idea (if that is the case.) Heres my reasoning!

The Ed Woods films, or any of those cheesy B Movies are amusing now, and probably then hehe, because of their attempts to be... well a 'good' sci fi film or hororr movie etc. To make spoof of a widely accepted parody would just look utterly superficial really.

The style that one might term Ed Wood then hehe, or take another example say Grindhouse, are not things you can 'work in' as a visual aesthetic or style to make a story 'right.'

Those styles are themselves the results of certain styles of storytelling, technical circumstances and popular cultures relevant to that time in place.

Tarantino did his Grindhouse film by evocating that time and place in which these films were made - trying to contemporise it. Rod (bless him) just stuck the style onto his last film quite randomly - and you saw how that worked.

So Rodney... your not talking about what colour of t-shirt ur gonna stick on ur film, its really the other way around. Your story should in its own way, be telling you how it looks.

Even your last film Joey got distracted with 'style, visuals' at the cost of other elements. So think about it carefully bro!
 
I'm going Ed Wood dammit! I'm going to do it and do it as cheesy as anything! This will be the the WORST MOVIE EVER in human history!
 
By the way: I was totally kidding about the Ed Wood thing. Nice to see that it DID provoke a reaction though... **cough cough Lawrie cough cough** :grin:
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
By the way: I was totally kidding about the Ed Wood thing. Nice to see that it DID provoke a reaction though... **cough cough Lawrie cough cough** :grin:
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I think it's a cool idea (not the worst movie ever part) but doing the woods approach. It would probably mean shooting too seperate films at once, using the same set :-)
 
Rewrote the ending for the movie and it's a fairly solid lock. Once we get into rehearsals, the monologue might definitely take a hit to make it more realistic, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. Instead of going on an on, I think I found the right beats of where THIS particular story actually ENDS.

Gotta go call back the Make Up School and a couple of these BTS photographers and videographers. Damien apparently has a good lead on a warehouse location so gotta get some pics from him and see where we're at.

Fun times!
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
Rewrote the ending for the movie and it's a fairly solid lock. Once we get into rehearsals, the monologue might definitely take a hit to make it more realistic, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. Instead of going on an on, I think I found the right beats of where THIS particular story actually ENDS.

Gotta go call back the Make Up School and a couple of these BTS photographers and videographers. Damien apparently has a good lead on a warehouse location so gotta get some pics from him and see where we're at.

Fun times!
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Sounds promising. Good luck!
Can't wait to see the location grabs.
 
Contact has been made with the makeup school. I've sent them the list of requirements and they'll get back to me about which students can be made available... if any at all.

Some of the quotes I've been getting, range anywhere from $300/day to $300/HOUR. And from the assessment freely and fairly given of the script, we're going to need a minimum of 4 Makeup Artists working on Jessica, especially the initial makeup, and one specifically doing nothing else but airbrush work.

I'm going to have to learn how to work around the makeup team, especially when they have to tweak. In the past makeup has always slowed the production down to a crawl, and that was just with ONE makeup artist doing regular makeup.

I'm beginning to wonder what I've gotten myself into. Maybe my original 3 day estimate was actually a very accurate timeline for production.
 
I would love to mate, but I won't be set up and settled until next year now. We are getting their slowly. The kids will be older and less of a handful for one of us next year as well.
 
Let's do an exchange program!! I'll trade one Jessica for 2 of you guys. Howzabout it?

Sorry Jess, Tom is an amateur pimp. Trying to hustle into my territory. Last time he did that I gave him ~Jai~. Muhahahahahaha!
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
Let's do an exchange program!! I'll trade one Jessica for 2 of you guys. Howzabout it?

Sorry Jess, Tom is an amateur pimp. Trying to hustle into my territory. Last time he did that I gave him ~Jai~. Muhahahahahaha!
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Is this like a hockey draft? (I'm Canadian, deal with the Hockey references).
 
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