"Stay Sharp" a film by Amy Beth O'Brien

Hi Amy,

I adore your poster - very simple and charming. Your last two films here around were very enjoyable. I am looking very much forward to this one. Best of luck and good work.

Susanne
 
Thanks Susanne. With any luck, "simple and charming" will also describe this film, so I hit the right tone with the poster, I guess.
 
Amy, when does production start? I'm trying to coordinate schedules and travel for my production around memorial day weekend.
 
I hope to start filming next week. My son Kevin is out of school next week (he is in a "year round" program and gets several short breaks a year) so I'll have a few days with just him in the house and can shoot the girls' scenes on the weekend. The girls go to a different school with a regular schedule. I fully anticipate having to finish up the following weekend as well. I don't want to push too much in a day as this is supposed to be a fun family activity. However it turns out is fine with me, since this time it's the process and not the product that's important.

This is all dependent, of course, on finalizing the script and getting shot lists together. I brought the script in to my writing group last week and got some great suggestions for punching it up - I just have to fit them into 6 minutes!

Hope you can get everything ready to go for Memorial Weekend. :)
 
Thanks Bro. Stephen! :)

For interested parties, I have begun a production notes/journal post on page one.
 
Finished my first weekend of filming. All went well and I'm a scene ahead of schedule!
BTS and screen grabs on the first page.
 
Wrapped principal photography on Sunday! Yay! Now I get to sit in front of the computer screen for hours and hours, which is where the real fun begins . . .

New production log entry and screen shots on page one for those interested.
 
Amy... looking good! I hope you have some fun with your ZazaSlider. Glad to see you made one. I'm looking forward to seeing how you used it.
 
The slider was awesome! I only got two or three actual moving shots in there because I was doing this by myself, but it was great for quick setups since I could just shift one way or another to fine tune a shot. And shooting over the table - I could hang the slider over the table to reach in further than my tripod would allow for close ups since I shot the whole thing with just a 50mm lens. Great piece of kit for the solo-shooter!
 
AmyO said:
The slider was awesome! I only got two or three actual moving shots in there because I was doing this by myself, but it was great for quick setups since I could just shift one way or another to fine tune a shot. And shooting over the table - I could hang the slider over the table to reach in further than my tripod would allow for close ups since I shot the whole thing with just a 50mm lens. Great piece of kit for the solo-shooter!
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That's great. I built it for theTwilightFest and now I use it all the time. It really is a help for the solo shooter, if even for tweaking the framing without having to move the tripod.:beer:
 
kurtmo said:
I noticed the slider in your BTS. You built this?
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Well, "assembled" is a better term. Zaza has a great step by step here. Most challenging part was drilling and tapping the hole in the carriage. For the end stops on mine, I tapped the end holes and screwed in 1 inch bolts from the bottom. The bolt holding the head on the carriage didn't screw in all the way making it jut out a bit and catch on the bolts at the ends. Took me all of 20 minutes to assemble.
 
Going pretty well, thanks for asking. I'm comfortably under the 6 minute mark, which I'm happy about. Found a few continuity issues I have to work around or let be, which is par for the course of shooting solo. I am racing to get picture lock before I leave to shoot a doc in Texas next weekend so that I can get it over to my composer in time. It'll be sound editing and color correction when I get back on the 15th. Good times.
 
I love your photography - very soft and sensitive! :thumbup:

Susanne


BTW: Your daughter is very beautiful.
 
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