Red | White

Added the first draft of our poster. Will redesign the banner to match tomorrow. Now must sleep.

Also, I have some test footage to share, hopefully tomorrow.
 
Wow...I did something SORT of like this in high school! It even looked very similar to the way your poster does. Ah, nostalgia. Now I'm REALLY looking forward to this. :beer:
 
Cool - I did something sort of like this in college... At least in terms of theme. This will be much better than my previous effort though (I hope) :)
 
It's in intriguing theme and I'm sure you'll be able to use the environment to great effect as far as disorienting the character or even delving a little into a type of surrealism. :)

Oh, I also really like the simplicity of your banner. It's effective.
 
Some updates:

Here is the location video from last weekend (finally). I mixed the adapter and sans-adapter shots together. I have to use the adapter and the long lenses on this one. I love the look.

One thing that I noticed is that I am seeing a significant amount of chromatic aberration with some of my older Nikons. Fortunately Steve has a few good lenses that we can use - they are AF lenses and so the focus draw is really short, but I guess I will have to deal. My 85mm and 105mm should be ok too (he has a nice 50, a 70-210, and a 24 which I may use sparingly). I did not test the Lensbaby on the adapter, but I did use it on a Nikon D80 to create the new poster art (see the first post of this thread).




Next, we have locked a location for the apartment we needed. Shots attached below...

Lastly, we are shooting on Sunday 2/15, Saturday 2/21, and Sunday 2/22. Right around the corner! Had a good meeting with the composer today, meeting with wardrobe consultant on Tuesday, and we're just about set to go.
 

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Ok, we got through our first day of shooting without incident. We had a bit of a run-around trying to find an actress (had a last-minute cancellation), but fortunately we found someone in time.

This shoot was effects heavy - gunshots, lots of tilt-shift lens use - and it was a little tough to be director and DP. I really love both jobs, but this might be the last time I can do both. We'll see.

Here are some grabs. These are completely untouched, straight from the P2 card to you. I will be doing some heavy CC (including softening vignettes) on some of these shots. These apartment scenes are very dark - will provide a good contrast to the outdoor stuff next weekend.
 

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Ok, catching up on life after our grueling weekend shoot...

Everything went very well this weekend. We were out in the woods of western NJ all day Saturday and Sunday, and we got all of our shots (about 44 setups over two days). The weather on Saturday couldn't have been better, though Sunday was very tough due to the snow, freezing rain, and then just plain ol' rain. Of course, the sun came out yesterday as we were packing up our gear.

I will return with new screenshots, BTS photos, an updated poster, and some more detail on our weekend shoot - but for now it's time to log and transfer all my footage and get that edit started.

I will say that I am very happy with how production went, and I'm feeling good about how this one will turn out!
 
Ok, I'm back with more screenshots. Had hoped to post earlier than this, but I have been busy editing. Finally got it down to six minutes today - I started with a first assembly cut of 10:15. I'm feeling pretty good at the moment, but LOTS of work left to do. I'll update the poster and add some BTS as soon as I can find the time to work on them.

So, these are screenshots from Days Two and Three. No correction or grading yet - just raw images.
 

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I am looking forward to seeing more bits on this. Its looking good. You better get cutting. Half, if not most of the work is in the post. The clock is ticking.

By chance, the shot by the water, is it the area between the NJ turnpike tolls and Vince Lombardi rest stop? If it is... you and your crew are going to die from toxic poisoning.

Excuse me for the dark humor. :Drogar-Love(DBG):
 
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