Hey Vimeo!

Gracias to Pottyboy for pointing me in the direction of this site. It's free to sign up, and they allocate you 500mb a week of upload content. Their compressions and are very good and you can also upload and view in HD! Very sweet! Maybe this is where Okay Great will make it debut...it's 20 minutes long and most sites only 10...I'll have to see what Vimeo allows. You don't have to be a filmmaker or wannabe You Tube dipshit to post stuff. If you have kids and want to post videos of them for friends and family who live in other parts of the country, use sites like Vimeo, Meta Cafe and Revver for quality alone. You Tube is good for getting lots of random views, but the quality is shit.

The Truthiness of Steve Depino

The Truthiness of Steve Depino from Jeff Reilly on Vimeo.

Edit This

Edit This from Jeff Reilly on Vimeo.

See Real Women: Really See Women

See Real Women: Really See Women from Jeff Reilly on Vimeo.

My Favorite Holiday

My Favorite Holiday from Jeff Reilly on Vimeo.

Okay Great

I've been fine tuning Okay Great and screening for friends and crew members looking for some feedback. I'm essentially done. I'm really pleased with the film but now comes the tough part- finding a composer to score the film. The music I used in the film is pretty out there, it certainly isn't your typical score and trying to replicate the tone is going to be difficult. A really talented audio mixer named Mike Ryan is going to mix the film for me for basically nothing and he is also putting his feelers out for a composer. I have a few other friends sending emails to people they know, so if any of my 1 or 2 readers knows someone who is a musician or music composer and is interested in taking on a challenging piece of work for little to no money (sounds appealing, right?) please send them my way or give me a shout with their info. Muchos Gracias!

Copper Mason

My friend Jamin Bricker co-wrote and directed this short film. It's actually the beginning of a webisode series which he shot the first 3 episodes of over a weekend in May. Erin Rosa produced the film and she was my co-producer on Okay Great. It's whacky and fun- check it out.

From Crackle: Cooper Mason - Internet Retail Extroardinare

Coat Hangers for Strait Jackets

The title doesn't mean anything, I just like it. I suggested it as the name for our production company at work, but we didn't end up changing the name, so it's a title waiting for a home. Since I'm going to post a bunch of random shit, I figured I'd throw it out there. Maybe it's the title for a short film...

So it's been 2 years, almost to the day, that I finished Edit This, so I thought I'd post it.


Edit This from Jeff Reilly on Vimeo.

Can't believe it's been 2 years and I still enjoy it, which I guess is a good sign.

Also, after 7 long months, I have completely a pretty-close-to-finished cut of Okay Great. Between work, wedding planning, and life in general, I wasn't always able to sit down and grind it out, but as friend told me recently, it'll happen when it's ready. There's still some work to be done in the editing room, then get someone to score the film with original music and then do the final audio mix. My goal is to be ready by august to submit to Sundance and then wait for the rejection letter.

A few weeks ago, my fiancée and I went on our official engagement shoot, although we've been engaged for 2 1/2 years. Regardless, we are lucky enough to have Steve Depino and Carla Ten Eyck shooting our wedding and they both teamed up for the engagement shoot as well. We had a great day! Lost of fantastic pictures, (no surprise if you've seen any of their work) laughs, beers, and dinner to top off the night. I'll never be able to thank either of you enough, but know how much we appreciate your work and personalities and that we count ourselves as very lucky to have you be a part of our wedding day. If the pictures from the big day are half as amazing as the engagement pictures then we're in for an enormous treat. If you want to see our photos, go here for steve's and here for carla's.

I've been too busy to get out to the movies and the ones I have seen haven't left an impression on me. I watched There Will Be Blood again, which is on DVD and if you haven't seen that yet, you need to. Yeah that's right, you NEED to.

The Wonders of the Internet

I'm flattered. And excited. I just found this.

Someone found my short film Edit This and posted it on youtube. I have no idea who this person is but I can only assume that they liked it and that's why they posted it. Made my day.

Thank you cyberdelicamusic!

Bodyrock Ya'll

I've been a fan of Moby since the first time I heard his music, but now I love him. Check this shit out! Certainly would be nice if more artists did this. It takes an enormous amount of generosity and trust to lead this charge. Thanks Moby! He's a Connecticut boy to boot!

Okay Great we're done shooting. Now it's time to edit.

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.

Okay Great

From the day I wrote the first draft to the day I start shooting will be almost a year. Kind of a frustrating process...Initially I was going to shoot in january, but I got extremely bogged down in work, had to take on an additional unexpected project, etc...then we were going to shoot in May but my DP, Adrian ordered the new Red camera so we waited. The delivery schedule for the Red camera was just bumped 3 months and I'm not waiting anymore. The camera promises to be a revolutionary camera filmmakers- Steven Soderbergh is shooting his next 2 films with it, but again I can't wait anymore. I have a project in the winter and we'll shoot with it then. So be it...

If all stays on course (which it should) I will start shooting Okay Great on September 21st. It'll be a jam packed 3 day shoot. The project started with wanting to do "something weird" and evolved into much more. Without giving too much away- I'd rather have everyone watch it- Okay Great is about a twentysomething man, Sean Chase, who after a sleepless night, is having the single strangest day of his life, but he's not sure if it's his imagination or if it's real.

I'm still looking to cast a female- 20's-30's- in a small (2 scenes), but critical, fun and (hopefully) memorable role, so if anyone knows anyone...also if anyone knows an exhibitionist I have another small scene, no dialogue but very important. There is no nudity, but it is a sex scene. It's not exploitive or distasteful, it's for effect, and it's a neccesity to the story. Anyway, it's a tougher role to cast for the obviosu reasons, so again, if anyone knows anyone...I can explain and describe more when I talk to whomever might be interested. I'll keep posting about this project as I continue to prep.

Outside of my day to day work, I'm close to having a first cut of a piece I'm doing for Steve Depino, which will definitely be posted when it's finished.

later skaters.

Short Films, etc...

Please feel free to comment here on my work currently displayed on the site. I realize that this isn't the ideal setup but we'll get there. In the meantime, good, bad or indiffferent please voice your opinion.

UPDATE:

Even though one person reads this blog I've already managed to confuse her. Eventually I will have something setup where on my main page you can view my work and make comments. For the time being please feel free to post them and just reference the title.