skategriggs
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So I am currently on a hunt for a very specific and unique location. I live around the Bridgeport CT area and am fairly flexible with shooting out of state or whatever to make it happen, as long as its within a 3 hour or less drive away.
Its for a short script I wrote, aprox. 14 pages, and the majority of the film takes place on a VERY large school bus lot / yard. The issue is, the script calls for a bus lot that appears to extend forever. The story is essentially about a young boy who falls asleep on the bus and wakes up in this world where you end up when you fall asleep on the bus (actually that's anything but the story, buts its the context of the setting). Anyway the lot should appear endless with neatly stacked rows of bright yellow school buses.
Now the issue Im struggling with, is finding a location to support this. Now I know im never going to find what's projected in the story, and Im excepting to the fact that I will have to do some after effects to duplicate the rows of buses in order to fill up everything bellow the horizon. Although I would of course like to find a location that would be as close as possible.
Definite things im looking for is a LARGE location, with neatly organized buses that extend for a fair distance both wide and long. Also no nearby tall trees, buildings, mountains or highways that would make it a ton harder with the after effects portion. And not broken down ugly buses, they have to at least look like they work.
I know thats a lot of specifics, and i'm not expected an answer, but you never know! so I thought id drop a thread to see if you guys just happen to know of a location like this haha.
But on another note, do you think the duplication process will be a do-able thing to do in after effects? I dont have a lot of experience with after effects but Im confident I can make it happen, I am although very skilled with photoshop so i know it goes hand in hand.
Ill be shooting this with some f/2.0 and faster lenses, so some serious shallow DOF, and its also possible that after pulling some strings at Panavision I may get a student filmmaker grant for some actual 35mm. How much do you think the DOF and or 35mm film could affect the process in after effects?
P.S. shooting is planned for sometime this summer, so school not in session should make things easier.
Its for a short script I wrote, aprox. 14 pages, and the majority of the film takes place on a VERY large school bus lot / yard. The issue is, the script calls for a bus lot that appears to extend forever. The story is essentially about a young boy who falls asleep on the bus and wakes up in this world where you end up when you fall asleep on the bus (actually that's anything but the story, buts its the context of the setting). Anyway the lot should appear endless with neatly stacked rows of bright yellow school buses.
Now the issue Im struggling with, is finding a location to support this. Now I know im never going to find what's projected in the story, and Im excepting to the fact that I will have to do some after effects to duplicate the rows of buses in order to fill up everything bellow the horizon. Although I would of course like to find a location that would be as close as possible.
Definite things im looking for is a LARGE location, with neatly organized buses that extend for a fair distance both wide and long. Also no nearby tall trees, buildings, mountains or highways that would make it a ton harder with the after effects portion. And not broken down ugly buses, they have to at least look like they work.
I know thats a lot of specifics, and i'm not expected an answer, but you never know! so I thought id drop a thread to see if you guys just happen to know of a location like this haha.
But on another note, do you think the duplication process will be a do-able thing to do in after effects? I dont have a lot of experience with after effects but Im confident I can make it happen, I am although very skilled with photoshop so i know it goes hand in hand.
Ill be shooting this with some f/2.0 and faster lenses, so some serious shallow DOF, and its also possible that after pulling some strings at Panavision I may get a student filmmaker grant for some actual 35mm. How much do you think the DOF and or 35mm film could affect the process in after effects?
P.S. shooting is planned for sometime this summer, so school not in session should make things easier.