Trailerpark
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smashedburrito
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Thanks, glad to know people are excited. We are a long ways off from a trailer, especially since we are shooting this sucker completely out of order and inside out.
But I am hoping as we continue shooting to have at least some footage posted or even a trailer montage or something.
I can't wait to post some grabs from the upcoming fire shoot.
smashedburrito
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I thought I would post some of the sketches done by our art director. They show her ideas of images of a trailer burning down, the interior of our ice fishing bobhouse, and the inside of the living area of one of our trailers. We actually had our bobhouse built like a set so that we have floating walls. It should make things a lot easier when it comes to fitting all our gear into that small space.
smashedburrito
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So we have a pretty big weekend ahead of us. We are shooting at our trailer park, at a doll factory, inside an ice fishing house, and on a burn site.
We plan on spending valentines day doing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dduAkTuxy84
Also the university did a nice little write up on our project which you can view here:
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/February/351.cfm
After this weekend of fire we spend next weekend in Michigan shooting some ice, but as soon as we get some down time I promise to post a whole mix of screengrabs.
We plan on spending valentines day doing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dduAkTuxy84
Also the university did a nice little write up on our project which you can view here:
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/February/351.cfm
After this weekend of fire we spend next weekend in Michigan shooting some ice, but as soon as we get some down time I promise to post a whole mix of screengrabs.
smashedburrito
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Burning a trailer
Burning a trailer
So last night at approximately 9pm we burned down a trailer for a scene in our film. I thought I would explain the entire process before posting some pictures later.
We broke up the burning into two days. Friday we shot reversals of our actors in the trailer park. We showed their faces and their reactions and our trailer background. Hopefully Andy can come on the thread and explain a little about lighting and shooting that, I know we used mylar extensively.
I used Friday mostly to get the actors familiar with the blocking and tweak their performances. We broke up the entire scene into 5 major moments, which we ran as little individual scenes within the actual fire. We even got a local firestation to help out so in the back of the master wide a firetruck pulls in and firefighters run past the cast towards the flames.
That was Friday. Saturday we really burned one to the ground.
Luckily another local college has a fire safety program where they do all types of controlled burns. They were nice enough to let us do the burn on their property. We bought a gutted out trailer and then had it approved by the EPA so that it was burn safe. This meant there was nothing inside that was going to be detrimental for the burn. Our plan was to burn at 9pm, so at 6pm we all arrived and lit the scene. The camera team then went about setting marks and planning out the shots and blocking for the various moments, except this time they would have a flaming backlight.
At eight the actors arrived and we rehearsed and ran the scene for about an hour. Luckily they are all extremely professional and remembered their blocking from the night before. Most of the rehearsal was spent on setting focus marks. The local fire department arrived and set up, they were in control of making sure we didn't burn down the entire state of Ohio.
At 9pm we were ready to go, so the other director, our burning producer, and myself went inside with the fire department and road flares and lit the thing up. Our BTS crew came inside as well to get that footage (which I can't wait to see). We had covered the floor in straw and insulation, so once we dropped the flares the floor pretty much went up. It was a pretty surreal experience standing in the middle of a trailer with the rooms on either side of you filling up with flames. And let me tell you, the oxygen in that place goes quick. We were maybe in for a minute with the fire and I was already hacking and coughing.
We all stepped out and assumed our positions for the shoot. We waited... Orange light glowed from the windows, but it looked like a lighting trick and not a real fire. So we waited some more. 10 minutes in the firefighters started throwing wooden flats inside to kick start the flame. Then a ceiling fan went up and the whole thing burst into flames. The windows started blowing outward and we hit record.
We ended up having four cameras going on the shoot. A and B cam were capturing specific blocking and C and D were focusing on the flames. When the flames reached their height I called for wides and we struck the lights, pulled back, and focused on getting sihlouettes of the action. After about 15 minutes of burning the fire department had to put it out so we didn't burn the woods down.
Needless to say, it was awesome. Running around a giant burning building fills you with so much adrenaline. We have an eight year old girl in the cast and she loved it even though the thing was pretty frightening. Andy, my DP, was in charge of most of the weekend in terms of making sure everyone knew what they were doing at what moment and he did an amazing job. The camera men were pretty much directing the actual burn and it all looked fantastic.
Overall it was pretty unreal.
Okay, enough of my rambling about my fire experiences. I'll post some pictures soon.
Burning a trailer
So last night at approximately 9pm we burned down a trailer for a scene in our film. I thought I would explain the entire process before posting some pictures later.
We broke up the burning into two days. Friday we shot reversals of our actors in the trailer park. We showed their faces and their reactions and our trailer background. Hopefully Andy can come on the thread and explain a little about lighting and shooting that, I know we used mylar extensively.
I used Friday mostly to get the actors familiar with the blocking and tweak their performances. We broke up the entire scene into 5 major moments, which we ran as little individual scenes within the actual fire. We even got a local firestation to help out so in the back of the master wide a firetruck pulls in and firefighters run past the cast towards the flames.
That was Friday. Saturday we really burned one to the ground.
Luckily another local college has a fire safety program where they do all types of controlled burns. They were nice enough to let us do the burn on their property. We bought a gutted out trailer and then had it approved by the EPA so that it was burn safe. This meant there was nothing inside that was going to be detrimental for the burn. Our plan was to burn at 9pm, so at 6pm we all arrived and lit the scene. The camera team then went about setting marks and planning out the shots and blocking for the various moments, except this time they would have a flaming backlight.
At eight the actors arrived and we rehearsed and ran the scene for about an hour. Luckily they are all extremely professional and remembered their blocking from the night before. Most of the rehearsal was spent on setting focus marks. The local fire department arrived and set up, they were in control of making sure we didn't burn down the entire state of Ohio.
At 9pm we were ready to go, so the other director, our burning producer, and myself went inside with the fire department and road flares and lit the thing up. Our BTS crew came inside as well to get that footage (which I can't wait to see). We had covered the floor in straw and insulation, so once we dropped the flares the floor pretty much went up. It was a pretty surreal experience standing in the middle of a trailer with the rooms on either side of you filling up with flames. And let me tell you, the oxygen in that place goes quick. We were maybe in for a minute with the fire and I was already hacking and coughing.
We all stepped out and assumed our positions for the shoot. We waited... Orange light glowed from the windows, but it looked like a lighting trick and not a real fire. So we waited some more. 10 minutes in the firefighters started throwing wooden flats inside to kick start the flame. Then a ceiling fan went up and the whole thing burst into flames. The windows started blowing outward and we hit record.
We ended up having four cameras going on the shoot. A and B cam were capturing specific blocking and C and D were focusing on the flames. When the flames reached their height I called for wides and we struck the lights, pulled back, and focused on getting sihlouettes of the action. After about 15 minutes of burning the fire department had to put it out so we didn't burn the woods down.
Needless to say, it was awesome. Running around a giant burning building fills you with so much adrenaline. We have an eight year old girl in the cast and she loved it even though the thing was pretty frightening. Andy, my DP, was in charge of most of the weekend in terms of making sure everyone knew what they were doing at what moment and he did an amazing job. The camera men were pretty much directing the actual burn and it all looked fantastic.
Overall it was pretty unreal.
Okay, enough of my rambling about my fire experiences. I'll post some pictures soon.
A writeup for the front page of our local news paper on our burn scene. Check it out.
http://www.athensnews.com/news/camp...m-students-get-fired-about-feature-film-trai/
http://www.athensnews.com/news/camp...m-students-get-fired-about-feature-film-trai/
smashedburrito
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Some more photos
Thanks to Zacuto for donating their handheld rig which really made the scene possible.
These are some photos of the interior of the ice fishing house which we set up in the old student union.
We leave tomorrow morning for a 9 hour drive to Michigan. There we shoot a pretty cool scene of a bunch of actors running around on a frozen lake fighting for control of a box. After this weekend we will have our entire climax shot and we can go back to Athens and work on interiors for next three months.
It has been weird starting with the end of the movie (which we have done for seasonal reasons). Every time I look at the footage I have no real idea of where it is coming from or why I care. I understand that it looks good and will work but because we are shooting scene 104 out of 113 scenes, it is pretty weird to not have the earlier scenes to look at as stepping stones.
All in the learning process, right?
Thanks to Zacuto for donating their handheld rig which really made the scene possible.
These are some photos of the interior of the ice fishing house which we set up in the old student union.
We leave tomorrow morning for a 9 hour drive to Michigan. There we shoot a pretty cool scene of a bunch of actors running around on a frozen lake fighting for control of a box. After this weekend we will have our entire climax shot and we can go back to Athens and work on interiors for next three months.
It has been weird starting with the end of the movie (which we have done for seasonal reasons). Every time I look at the footage I have no real idea of where it is coming from or why I care. I understand that it looks good and will work but because we are shooting scene 104 out of 113 scenes, it is pretty weird to not have the earlier scenes to look at as stepping stones.
All in the learning process, right?
smashedburrito
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Well Michigan was certainly an experience. The day began with nice calm skies, but then turned into a huge snowstorm. Five inches in about three hours. Continuity was kind of screwed but I got a chance to see the rough cut today and it looks good, so I'm pretty happy.
We move onto our first interiors this weekend. It should be a good break from fire and ice and constant road trips. As a director I can't wait to get into the meat and potatoes, the dialogue and emotional scenes that should really make this movie work.
Oh yeah, it got really freaking cold.
We move onto our first interiors this weekend. It should be a good break from fire and ice and constant road trips. As a director I can't wait to get into the meat and potatoes, the dialogue and emotional scenes that should really make this movie work.
Oh yeah, it got really freaking cold.
smashedburrito
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A new BTS video here:
Trailerpark: Behind the Scenes
It has some footage in it in case people are interested.
Also some members of the production were featured in a Columbus newscast about the project.
Trailerpark special on NBC "Daytime Columbus"
Trailerpark: Behind the Scenes
It has some footage in it in case people are interested.
Also some members of the production were featured in a Columbus newscast about the project.
Trailerpark special on NBC "Daytime Columbus"
Some screen grabs for you all to enjoy.
A slew more on the blog, and set photos on our photoblog.
www.trailerparkmovie.wordpress.com
www.trailerparkmoviephotos.blogspot.com
A slew more on the blog, and set photos on our photoblog.
www.trailerparkmovie.wordpress.com
www.trailerparkmoviephotos.blogspot.com
smashedburrito
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If anyone is curious, we joined Twitter with the name trailerparkfilm, so expect on set updates if you follow us.
smashedburrito
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We've gotten into the heart of shooting. 9 days straight over our spring break, about 4.5 pages a day. But when we are done we will be 2/3 finished with our film.
Things are going pretty well. Many of these shots involve copious amounts of guinea pigs, 20-30, so we have a humane society rep down here working with us. It takes a lot of planning and flexibility to work with animals. I have no idea how movies like evan almighty are made.
Feel free to check out the grabs on the previous page or follow our blog, we'll try to keep things updated.
Things are going pretty well. Many of these shots involve copious amounts of guinea pigs, 20-30, so we have a humane society rep down here working with us. It takes a lot of planning and flexibility to work with animals. I have no idea how movies like evan almighty are made.
Feel free to check out the grabs on the previous page or follow our blog, we'll try to keep things updated.
smashedburrito
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We just got added to IMDB. I can now successfully seven degree our movie to Kevin Bacon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399102/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399102/
smashedburrito
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We got a front page article in the Life section of the Columbus Dispatch.
We have one day left in our marathon 9 straight days of shooting. Then 5 days off before another full weekend.
I am starting to get very, very tired.
We have one day left in our marathon 9 straight days of shooting. Then 5 days off before another full weekend.
I am starting to get very, very tired.
smashedburrito
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We just wrapped 9 straight days of shooting. We get this week off to start spring quarter classes and then it is back to shooting on Saturday.
Zacuto did an interview with one of our DPs. They were also gracious enough to let us borrow some great equipment for the shoot. Check out the interview here.
http://zacuto.blogspot.com/2009/03/zacuto-zelebrity-andrew-poland.html
Zacuto did an interview with one of our DPs. They were also gracious enough to let us borrow some great equipment for the shoot. Check out the interview here.
http://zacuto.blogspot.com/2009/03/zacuto-zelebrity-andrew-poland.html
Lt_Col_Wade
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Hi Andrew, I graduated from OU in 2006 and gave an (albeit very small) donation to Trailerpark, its cool to see the updates. Its also really great to see what theyre doing with the 419 program, growing more ambitious by the year - mine involved a climactic night shoot with a fight in a boat on a lake for which we built a dock/dolly - was supposed to be one night but turned into three straight all nighters after a mountain of problems - destroyed two generators and melted a few light kits. All worth it, though.
Have you shot the frozen lake scene? If not, hope it goes well - a frozen lake ended up being the bane of my existence for 2 years during an independent senior project - you can ask Frederick about that.
Good luck and keep up the good work!
Have you shot the frozen lake scene? If not, hope it goes well - a frozen lake ended up being the bane of my existence for 2 years during an independent senior project - you can ask Frederick about that.
Good luck and keep up the good work!
Ah fantastic, thank you so much for your donation. I've heard the stories of the melted lowel cases and generator fiascoes of the past. We have opted to go with cinder blocks and plywood for noise muffling, not plastic lowel cases, haha. How we have learned from others mistakes.
Yeah, as for the frozen lake, we have shot that location. It went well and we were able to cover all the necessary content. it was a bit chilly but everyone fought through, and it all looks nice.
If you are in the area come back for the screening in June, and check out all the hard work that has been put in by over 70 students. All the best.
Yeah, as for the frozen lake, we have shot that location. It went well and we were able to cover all the necessary content. it was a bit chilly but everyone fought through, and it all looks nice.
If you are in the area come back for the screening in June, and check out all the hard work that has been put in by over 70 students. All the best.
smashedburrito
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I think the other director may have actually been the one to destroy your gennys. Was the film "In Passing?"
Lt_Col_Wade
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It most certainly was. I was the DP - ah, the memories...