It was a long weekend. Really long. 44 hours in 3 days. That doesn't include travel time and everyone was coming from at least an hour away. I can't thank my cast and crew enough. A majority of them gave up their entire weekend, as volunteers for this film and I'm forever indebted to them. The rest gave up huge chunks of their friday, saturday or sunday to act in the film. I'm indebted to them as well. On top of all that the enthusiasm and energy was palable on set. Every person broke their ass to make this project work. It's very humbling to have so many people be there for you. That was my favorite part of the shoot- the comraderie. Hopefully one day I will get a budget for one of movies and be able to pay all these people. Pay them and pay them back.
I love shooting. It's stressful and exhausting to say the least but I love it. You watch the scenes you wrote come alive and you watch the actors performing them take the scenes to new heights- far beyond your imagination. It's exhilarating. Now it's time for me to start editing. I need to make this movie memorable, not just for movie-making sake, but more importantly for all the people who contributed their time, effort, energy, and creativity to make it possible.
Cast & Crew:
Michael Berndt
Jamin Bricker
Adrian Correia
Joe Chasse
Nick Genchi
Tim Hotchner
Lynn Mancinelli
Ashley Pagano
Jon Pascale
Dan Ramirez
Joe Reilly
Pete Reilly
Erin Rosa
Bob Sylvia
Carla Ten Eyck - who also put up an awesome slideshow from the final day of shooting. Check it out on her blog.
Here are some stills from the movie & shooting.
7 comments:
Those still are great- love your sense of composition when you shoot- the smoke blowing scene rocked and the one where Dan was looking up at the sky with the sun flare is fabulous! Please tell me bob 2.0 is in the movie doing that
sadly he isn't. I didn't even know they did that until I saw the footage. it was before we even set up a scene.
Will we get to see your film when you are done? Can't wait. I bet it will totally rock!
Thanks jason. you will indeed get to see it.
I love that fruit rollups are listed as an 'interest' in the about page. :)
I know, right Bob? Not only is it listed in there but then he doesn't explain it. I always heard Big Time Movie Directors were mysterious!
figured the explaining would come once the short was seen...
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