SHORT: Surrender

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robo3687

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14/08/11 UPDATE: It's finally done...

and here is it is, the final short, quite happy with how it came out.


SURRENDER - A short film by Paul Robinson

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(will be doing a new poster once i take some stills during the shoot)

This one's been a long time coming, I first had the idea for this around 4 years ago but didn't have a camera. It's
what I want to do with my life (movie making that is) and I now have a camera (t2i) to do it, so I'm diving right in.

Facebook Fan Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Surrender-A-Short-Film-by-Paul-Robinson/196658250377805

Story
Nothing too involved, basically a car chase involving a man vs a car.

Cast
Phil Kingsland as Man (creative I know...lol)
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Unknown Car as Car (still securing one)
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Crew
Paul Robinson (me)
- Director
- Writer
- Director of Photography
- Editor
- Composer (that should be a challenge and a half..lol)
- Camera Operator
- Fake Blood Maker
- Prop Man

Phil Kingsland
- Costume Provider
- Dirt and Grime Provider

Conor Byrne
- Driver

Location & The Shoot

We're filming this on a large island near where I live, it only has a few roads on it and they're low traffic so we should be able to film fairly uninterrupted. Filming has been delayed a few times (we were originally set to go on the 7th of April) due to equipment not arriving on time, but we are now good to go for this Sunday.

I did do some "location scouting" of sorts with google street view, and these are the basic areas we'll be filming in and around

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I'll update this some more after Sunday with a report on how the filming went.
 
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Trailer

Now I threw this together when I got home, the cut probably won't be the same in the final short and the music will likely be different too. I just did a simple grade on the footage (hadn't converted it to 10bit yet, so this was just done on 8bit stuff), added some contrast and swung the highlights to a blue and the shadows to an orange. It mightn't be the final look I'll go with but I think it adds a vintage-y sort of feel to it...

Screens
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Filming Report
We were a little late getting started this morning (planned start of 9:30am ended up being 11:00am), but we headed out and got to filming straight away. Aside from that the day went as planned, a few technical hiccups here and there, and not every shot was gotten (some were consolidated), but I was happy with how it went. It was a bit exhausting, but I'm a bit unfit so thats probably why...lol

Now for the things that were a bit hiccuppy, they were mostly rookie type mistakes that were due to it being my first time doing something properly with my camera.

- a few exposure issues, which I should have expected with the white shirt
- i missed focus a few times (more than a few even), but i dunno, it sort of adds a quality to it....
- i completely forgot to take stills throughout the day, i think because we were in a rush they got forgotten
- the location worked out a bit different than i'd hoped...i hadn't been out there myself for a few years and only had street view to go on when planning....but i think it worked out....some proper location scouting will be done for future shorts....
- there was one shot (not in the trailer or screens) that was quite washed out....it was inside the car, and i think i messed something up with the exposure....but i'm hoping i'll be able to fix it up....
 
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