FLOWER a flyin' monkey films production

My petition for spraying the house with blood has been denied. Apparently something about resale value being affected by me being murdered. Sigh. So I'll find an alternate plan for blood. My current plan involves soaking my brother in blood and having him howl at the moon, but that would just be for the fun of it really...

I guess I shouldn't have told the story of the FX shots I had to do on an earlier short film "Call Waiting" where one of the actresses was shot in closeup. We couldn't do the blood spray on the location, so back in my garage (in Atlanta) I shot an FX plate using a condom filled with stage blood. When it exploded.. well it exploded and half of the garage was sprayed in blood, including my wife. I spent the next hour cleaning things up.

That story is never a good one to tell while asking for permission to shoot in any location where blood is involved.
 
Blood is a pain. Especially, when it comes to room wide carnage. Depending how complex the scene is - continuity can be an issue. Don't depend on it. Its just a reminder of our mortality.

Then again, I did like the tub of blood in William Castle's "The Tingler." The entire movie is shot in black and white except for the blood in the tub and flowing out of the faucet of a nearby sink. It is vivid red. I'm sure it was an inspiration for Spielberg to use on the girl in the red dress in Schindler's List.
 
There Will Be No Blood. At least not in the vast quantities that I would like to imagine. Just dealing with bringing the scary for this movie is challenge enough. Time to hunker down in editing and finish this thing. Brad and Damian are both waiting on me...
 
Sprocketboy said:
Blood is a pain.
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You're not kidding... our actors were very uncomfortable and couldn't wait to hit the showers when we were done shooting. Our lead was particularly uncomfortable because she was covered with the sticky mess the longest.

We all want our next movie not to have ANY blood! LOL
 
Pickup shots are all complete and I think I found the heart of the story. The throughline. it feels good. it feels creepy. it's inspiring more screenshots...
 
My pickup shots are on Saturday. I have a love hate relationship with pickup shots. I love the fact that you can take shots to improve upon what you already have. I hate it because it means that you have to race all over the place to get disjointed shots that may not match the primary footage. Mis-matches require additional post work. What am I saying? I love getting pick up shots.
 
With pickup shots I ghet to add to the cool factor of my movie. It's coming from a slightly different perspective, that being of the editor and all the editor wants to do is make the movie BETTER... or in some cases add some real style to it. Sure you can get coverage on the actual production day... but with pickups you get to get ENHANCED coverage.

i hate pickups too. The frantict running around is my least favorite.
 
I agree with both you guys about the pick up shots. I did that the weekend after I shot and I still have a few more, but luckily these are just b-roll stuff. When I did "Trivial," the first day we shot was terrible. The sun was barely out. Had to do a reshoot for some shots and get some additional ones and I damn near shot the whole thing over cz the weather was 10 times better. Matching the new footage with the old was a task that involved alot of cc. But I say, if you have the time and resources, do it. It's worth it.

Hey Rodney, where are my other screen grabs??!!
 
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My pickup shots are so nice I th8ink I'm goping to reedit the film to be ALL pickup shots. Jessica now has one line and only appears in ONE frame of the movie!!!
 
Marlon Ladd said:
She will kill you dead, sir!
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That is a not-so-distant possibility, but we must all suffer for our art!

I've actually had a bit of a setback with my laptop. Seems something's going around. I reinstalled my windows cuz CS4 was beginning to lag a lot... hell opening the file to edit Flower was taking forever. So I said screw it all, backed up my data, reformatted and reinstalled everything. I'm now in the process of putting all of my software back together, upgrades, plugins and all. So editing has come to a complete halt.

I did however manage to record all of Theik's ADR for the monster voice and have those tracks ready to go (reminds me I have to reinstall Adobe Audition) and added in most of my pickup shots. Definitely more stylistic and cool, so I can;t wait to get back to the edit.
 
Yeah, I was in almost the same boat this weekend. I had to reinstall a few programs and add new ones and plugins on my laptop, so I didn't do any editing this weekend. It's kind of funny, because we wouldn't be acting like this if we hadn't shot so far in advance of the deadline. I better get my azz in gear and get 'er done 'cause October is moving fast.
 
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