"Stupendous" a Beyond Reality Picture

Dude, I would love to see a little "Making of" or even a series of still showing the process both of designing your poster and compositing the sky in your screen grab.
hear, hear! Do a podcast or something. Show us what's going on behind the scenes with you.

Thanks guys. I would love to, but honestly, it's such a tedious and inefficient process (the way I do things), I don't know if I have the patience to go back and take 2 dozen screen grabs of me making it and write explanations. This may sound lazy, I'm really sorry, but since I entered the fest so late (fest announced November, I decide to make something mid January) I'm working round the clock on production. But thank you for the encouragement.
 
you know... I had considered using the tagline from Superman on my movie, but then decided on something funnier. Glad to see your take on it. It really works very nicely.
 
1/24/2009
FRUSTRATION!!! Here it goes, the list of things that suck:
- Okay, so, firstly, organizing people's schedules sucks.
- The fact I have no rehearsal location sucks.
- Tonight I tried setting up some lights to do a green screen test, to discover I have burned out bulbs. Tomorrow I have a gig from 8am to 4pm (no lights needed thank god) but then a gig from like 5:30 to 10, in which I NEED LIGHTS! And the drive from location A to location B is a little over an hour. Also, there's a REALLY good chance that no place in San Diego will have 3 SYLVANIA 500W 3200K bulbs.
- Today I bought a small LCD HDTV from Best Buy to use as an external monitor (I'll be shooting a large chunk in a home, outlets everywhere), only to discover that the one I purchased, discounted a little due to previously being opened, is MISSING A REMOTE AND ALL CABLES AND PAPERWORK!!! IT'S JUST A TV!!!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!

  • The Jaws robot sank a lot.
  • Star Wars was nearly scrapped half-way through production.
  • Poop happens! But it makes ye strong!
"Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women!"

Rod
 

1/24/2009

FRUSTRATION!!! Here it goes, the list of things that suck:
- Okay, so, firstly, organizing people's schedules sucks.
- The fact I have no rehearsal location sucks.
- Tonight I tried setting up some lights to do a green screen test, to discover I have burned out bulbs. Tomorrow I have a gig from 8am to 4pm (no lights needed thank god) but then a gig from like 5:30 to 10, in which I NEED LIGHTS! And the drive from location A to location B is a little over an hour. Also, there's a REALLY good chance that no place in San Diego will have 3 SYLVANIA 500W 3200K bulbs.
- Today I bought a small LCD HDTV from Best Buy to use as an external monitor (I'll be shooting a large chunk in a home, outlets everywhere), only to discover that the one I purchased, discounted a little due to previously being opened, is MISSING A REMOTE AND ALL CABLES AND PAPERWORK!!! IT'S JUST A TV!!!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!


I hear ya brother, as a fellow kinda superhero filmmaker I can tell you that:
1. Yes, scheduling does suck.
2. Rehearsals? what's that? (Rod, you better not blow this...no pressure.)
3. The biggest problem I have found when producing something you are also directing is that I spend so much time dealing with the small BS (cuz someone has too) that actually directing can take a back seat, yesterday it seemed like that was about 10% of my day.
Good luck man, hope you are able to overcome all of your obstacles!
 
really nice poster, did you do HDR photographs to achieve that look? also, when do we get a trailer for the movie? :)
 
really nice poster, did you do HDR photographs to achieve that look? also, when do we get a trailer for the movie? :)

Thanks. Nope, just lots of photoshop time. Sadly no trailer will be seen before the premiere. 2 reasons, 1, it's a comedy that's about 5 minutes long, if I make a 30 second trailer I'll probably have to waste all my jokes and it'll kill the viewing experience. I mean shorts are basically full-length-trailer length anyway, right? And 2, I'm not done shooting till the 18th, and then have a video shoot and editing job immediately afterward before I get to edit my own film, so the odds are I'll finish this one RIGHT on time for submission cut off. Sorry.
 
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