Shooting a short... With all of you?

**peter_g** · June 22nd, 2005, 11:26 PM

I'm intrigued, but not yet sold. Obviously it would take considerable effort and expense to travel to England. Also, I?m unlikely to be able to get time off work at such short notice.

The reason the short interests me is that for over a year now, I have been consumed by writing and funding my magnum opus, and as such have fallen out of touch with the day-to-day practicalities of low budget film making. I think it would be a good exercise.

I think that I would enjoy producing your short. If anyone wants me to e-mail them an excel file of a film budget I created so as to garner some appreciation of my producing abilities, just ask.

**eddie123456789** · June 23rd, 2005, 11:58 AM

I think you'll find Production is taken care of.
Looking back, starting with this post:

assyrix
Senior Hostboard Member

posted March 02, 2005 02:14 PM
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Right, this is taking too fucking long. So there:
1) This is the script we are going to film. Nothing groundbreaking and nothing complicated. Just a test to see if we can actually pull something like this off instead of just talking about it:

http://testicles.homestead.com/files/helpless.rtf

Once we managed to finish this we can proceed to the more ambitious stuff.

2) Positions:

Director: jb

DOP: chance1234

camera operator: assyrix

storyboarding: kigo

editing: Brooks Productions (you must have the ability to edit DigiBeta footage - I can copy it as an uncompressed avi-stream to a disk if you cannot grab raw footage of the tape)

title and visual effects: Vertigo

boom operator and sound mixer: curtinparloe (you originally wanted to edit but Brooks Productions beat you to that - is this okay as a second choice?)

We still need casting, music composer and a producer. I can do the music and casting (talentcircle et al is your friend) and would suggest that everyone involved chips in a bit of cash for the production. Can quickly create a financial report if required. I would also strongly recommend paying the actors.

Shooting for this script will be done with in a day.

I can do every weekend in July. How about you guys? If people need to crash I can provide space for two people / couples (two bedroom flat). Anybody else has space for people who come to London just for the shoot?

**assyrix** · June 24th, 2005, 07:28 AM

Please try not to PM each other, keep it in the main body of posts so that all of us who are participating are kept abreast of new developments.

**jb_617** · June 24th, 2005, 07:53 AM

It's OK, that PM wasn't strictly much to do with this. Honest Guv.

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PM me.

**assyrix** · June 27th, 2005, 07:52 AM

We did the preproduction shoot on the DigiBeta to test the camera as well as experiment with the equipment and angles. In the process we found out (among other things) that a vertical panning jib shot with a 90 degree twist and an actor simultaneously stepping into the frame is not worth to set up for two hours to yield two seconds of footage [img]smile.gif[/img]

FINAL BUDGET (all cost excl. VAT)
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Audition and Briefing: ?199.08
Actor's Rates: ?375.00
Insurance: ?30.00
Tapes: ~?50
DigiBeta Transfers: ~?90

TOTAL ?744.08

Ten people remain participating which leads to a cost of roughly ?75 per head. To pay please bring the money in person to the shot, mail a cheque to JB (PM him for his address) or transfer the cash to my Paypal account (use my email address assyrix AT cheerful DOT com to pay into).

People who have not paid by the 2nd July 2005 will be excluded from further participation and not mentioned in the credits.

Questions? Comments?

**jb_617** · June 30th, 2005, 10:14 AM

Ok guys,

as you know, the shoot is this saturday (2 July) and I would like final confirmation of who is attending, please?

If you need accomodation then let us know. I can put 1 (at a push 2) people up in my flat.

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**assyrix** · June 30th, 2005, 10:53 AM

Alternatively, you may stay in the Pilot Inn close to the location at ?50 a night.

**Chance1234** · June 30th, 2005, 08:44 PM

curtin, re make up.

you must be doing something wrong, i just come back from buying a few extra pieces, and came away from the make up counter with a bag of freebies, some aftershave and skin stuff for myself and the young lady has my telephone number.