Trailerpark

[andreww]

November 2, 2008

In 2005, Ohio University professor Frederick Lewis, screened his personal documentary on artist Rockwell Kent at the Lake Placid Film Festival. At this event Lewis met Russell Banks, and inquired about the adaptation of Banks' novel Trailerpark.

Starting Winter 2008, four Ohio University students began the process to adapt novelist Russell Banks' Trailerpark, a collection of short stories, into a feature length screenplay.

Early October, after hours of rewrites, a shooting script emerged, Professor Lewis obtained shooting rights to Trailerpark, and a crew of sixty- eight credit earning students, enrolled in Ohio University's School of Media Arts and Studies class, MDIA 419.

http://trailerparkmovie.com

http://trailerparkmovie.wordpress.com/

http://trailerparkmoviephotos.blogspot.com/

November 3, 2008

http://www.amazon.com/Trailerpark-Ru.../dp/006097706X

November 12, 2008

Blog updated with audio equipment, and guinea pig folly testing behind the scenes video!

http://trailerparkmovie.wordpress.com/

With the collaboration of the audio sequence in the Media Arts and Studies School, we have decided to raise the level for student production and produce a 5.1 final audio mix. In order to achieve this, our audio team is bringing on set production to an advanced student production level. The audio crew has decided to run dual system, with multiple audio field channels through an m-box, onto a laptop running pro-tools as the mixing unit.

As, a Co-Director of Photography, it is a great relief to know that after working on many student productions where audio is always put aside, I will finally get a great chance to know sound will be an element of the storytelling.


SPONSORS:

Our list of Official Trailerpark Sponsors:

http://www.mole.com/

One wintry morning, I sent an email to the info@mole contact address. A week or so later, a Mole representative was meeting with myself, our head gaffer and our executive producer/ faculty adviser in our home town, Athens, Ohio. Mole has agreed to support our production with a various assortment of HMI and tungsten fixtures.

http://www.zacuto.com

Zacuto will be outfitting our rig with the necessary Zacuto rail system and appropriate accessories.

http://www.zeiss.com/

This is a nice one to have under the belt. Zeiss, has agreed to support our production by providing five ZF lenses for our 35mm adapter system. Nerds rejoice, Zeiss glass!

http://www.tiffen.com/

Expect beautifully clean, wide establishing horizon shots with Tiffen's donation of various assortment of grad ND filters and warming filters. For a student production, its exciting to work with various 4x4 option on set, rather than "in post."

http://www.petroff.ws/

Petroff has agreed to support our production with a nice, clean, two staged 4x4 mattebox. No lens flares here.

http://www.indifocus.com/

Tim at indiFocus has graciously agreed to support our production with an indiSliderpro.

http://www.coollights.biz/

A late donation to the production, Coollights has shipped two great 650 watt tungsten fresnel fixtures and two florescent fixtures to our production headquarters. These badboys have already been put to good use and will prove wonderful in a pinch squeezing them into little trailer corners. Thanks Coollights!

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[andreww]

More Sponsors:

http://www.thewindcutter.com/

Our audio department is building support as well. Michael at Windcutter has agreed to peter cottontail up our mics!

 

[andreww]

November 15, 2008

I woke up this morning to great news from a big industry name. As soon as the agreement is confirmed, you will know.

In other news, the quarter is coming to an end, and as students, we are all wrapped up in finals. Regardless of this, we have locked our location where we will build the Trailerpark. It is a local, seasonal RV park, nearby Athens county, where we will place 9 trailers and shoot our feature.

November 23, 2008

A look inside our trailers we will be shooting. Yay for lighting separation possibilities in the hallways.

January 23, 2009

Shooting day one in the bag!

 

[andreww]

Videostory boards of the climax of our film. Nerd notes: Rig has not been fully assembled yet, pieces of the puzzle still coming in. Anyone have any notes on fire effects?

 

[Jon Starr]

Interesting. The title made me think of the Trailer Park Boys. It's a big TV show here in Canada, they even made a movie about it "Trailer Park Boys the movie"

Can't wait to see how it turns out.

 

[andreww]

-reserved for production/ location stills-

 

[DarkElastic]

Nice website. Good luck with this project and I look forward to more updates.

 

[andreww]

-reserved for production/ location stills-

 

[smashedburrito]

Hey I'm one of the co-directors and co-writers of Trailerpark. If anyone has any questions on the writing or the casting process feel free to ask.

 

[smashedburrito]

Andy added a list of donated products to the first post. They are pretty awesome.

 

[andreww]

Updates upstairs, pictures from our trailer interior scout and a new sponsor. Windcutter.com will be helping us out with microphone windscreens! Thanks Windcutter!

 

[smashedburrito]

Casting help needed:

Casting help needed:

Maybe someone can help, or at least point us in the right direction of another thread that can help.

We are located in a small town in southeast Ohio and casting our film is starting to be a problem. Our movie is an ensemble film, and we have cast about 8 of our 12 leads locally. The problem is that we cannot find the right people to play those remaining 4 leads in our town.

We are operating under SAGindie, so we can use and have budgeted for union actors. The issue is finding them. We are looking at Columbus to try and set up some form of open casting call with local agencies and such, but we are not sure how to do this.

Also, we are shooting our film on scattered weekends throughout four months. It is all scheduled out and we can cover transportation costs (up to around a 3 hour drive) and housing for the weekend. However we cannot pay to bring people in from LA or NY because they may only be shooting four days in an entire month.

Does anyone have any advice on how to set up a successful casting call in a city like Columbus? We are trying to work with theater companies in the city, but now we think we need to get in contact with agencies.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[smashedburrito]

A little more detail into how we are making this film...

-We have 68 students signed on for credit.
-Four writers wrote the script over 6 months at the beginning of this year. We are now only tweaking dialogue.
-We have two directors, each directing certain character storylines as this is an ensemble piece.
-Each director has their own core unit: DP, 1st and 2nd AC, AD, script supervisor, and unit producers.
-We have other units: audio, lighting, producing, art direction - each with their own leader.
-We are shooting on weekends from January through April, with a week of block shooting during our spring break.
-We are building are very own trailer park close to campus so that we have complete control over the set that is 90% of our movie.
-We are also shooting a scene on a frozen lake in Michigan and a burning trailer in Kentucky.

We are excited.

 

[TheWindCutter.com]

Andy, I'm glad to be supporting your production by furnishing WindCutter fur windscreens for the sound department.

Email me a copy of your Trailerpark banner ad and I'll put it on the WindCutter site.

I wanted to mention for the benefit of all our DVXuser friends who are trying to work within a tight budget, that for a limited time we are offering FREE worldwide shipping on all website orders.
To take advantage of the discount just shop for your microphone windscreens at www.thewindcutter.com, and during checkout enter this coupon code: ship4free

 

[Nathyn]

November 15, 2008

I woke up this morning to great news from a big industry name. As soon as the agreement is confirmed, you will know.

In other news, the quarter is coming to an end, and as students, we are all wrapped up in finals. Regardless of this, we have locked our location where we will build the Trailerpark. It is a local, seasonal RV park, nearby Athens county, where we will place 9 trailers and shoot our feature.

Great. I loved the photos. Can never have too many photos of people making films, especially the nice cam set-ups and stuff. Give us more.

-Nate

 

[andreww]

Will be sure to update with the hero shot as soon as the rig is assembled.

We have another huge project sponsor to announce soon. This one is a doozy, and will prove to be oh so beneficial working under student project circumstances. Stick around...

 

[Nathyn]

LOL. Cool. Would love to see it.

-Nate

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

We are located in a small town in southeast Ohio and casting our film is starting to be a problem. Our movie is an ensemble film, and we have cast about 8 of our 12 leads locally. The problem is that we cannot find the right people to play those remaining 4 leads in our town.

I took a film production class at a local to Oceanside, CA junior college. I didn't get a response from the college 'theater' department members, even though I put an add up on their 'casting' board.

I attended a local 'filmmakers' meeting and met a woman who seemed like she would work out, but scheduling didn't.

I put an ad on craigslist.org. I'm not really familiar with south east Ohio, but as I recall there was a college campus in Athens, there was an almost non existent satalite campus in Chillicothe, (and a prison as I recall...), etc... I don't know if people in those areas read the Columbus craigslist... Also, when I posted, apparently some acting entities do bot searches of craigslist, and I got several responses from the sites representing actors, and a few responses of actual actors and actresses.

Ultimately one actress from craigslist did work out for my project.

The problem with your project may be the long commitment required for your shooting on what appears to be essentially a 'no-budget/defered-budget' film.

In my case I was pretty clear the gig was a no-budget student film, and all that could be expected was a DVD of the result.

Perhaps you should change to a zombie film and use the abandoned uranium mining areas...

I've thought about a trailer park type film filled with big girls who bleach their hair blond... but I digress again...

 

[andreww]

Perhaps you should change to a zombie film and use the abandoned uranium mining areas...

That's next of course.

I've thought about a trailer park type film filled with big girls who bleach their hair blond... but I digress again...

Haha, well just you wait and see, we may, or may not have cast this character.

Again, I want to thank Windcutters for their support in our project, we are excited to work with your custom made tails.

 

[DanHD]

Have you guys made a feature before? how'd it go?