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So shooting begins tomorrow for my feature "Crooked Features" which I am directing.
Hopefully I'll find time somedays to keep my blog up-to-date about the making of it.
http://harp28.kicks-ass.net/mt_slog/
Should be fun!
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 24, 2004 08:41 AM: Message edited by: miker ]</font>
Good luck.
hope you all have a hell of a lot of fun, and best of luck.
Reading the blogs is pretty intreiging - BTW the V.M. should stay IMHO :-) (if anyone would be prepared to say it!)
or at least see how far she can get.
Good luck man.
Ditto. Hope it all goes as planned.
I've quite enjoyed reading your blog the last few weeks. It's been insightful to say the least. I had a question for you actually, was there a specific reason why you decided to put ads in casting magazines to find actors and not search Spotlight/get a casting director to find you actors who were exactly what you wanted?
I'm just interested because I'm casting at the moment and I've found it really helpful to be able to search through Spotlight and then I'll ask specific artists to come in to read for parts.
On the blogging front, I think I might start one for pre-production of my next short. It should be good to look back on in a few years time.
I'll put the link up soon. I'm sure I'll lose interest after a week or so but who knows.
Andy
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">no real reason other than I'd used PCR before and know others who have used CastNet and shooting people and got good results. Essentially casting director has been one of Kevin Turrell's many hats during preproduction.Quote:
was there a specific reason why you decided to put ads in casting magazines to find actors and not search Spotlight/get a casting director to find you actors who were exactly what you wanted?
Spotlight's all very well but it's not immediately accessable to me and it has a certain prestige not associated with ass-end guerilla filmmaking ;-)
Some of the applicants we got from our other sources do indeed have spotlight listings as well as equity membership etc.
Good Luck miker!
So have you completey cut the VM? Or does it still survive in an edited version?
People thought it was in 'bad taste' - durr! this is a film about the porn industry after all.
IMO, for what it's worth, I felt the VM was way too long anyway and would have benefitted from cutting down by AT LEAST half. It would be funnier and have more impact.
Did you find out which references people were particularly offended by?
I think the VM should stay in too...
BRING BACK THE VM! [img]redface.gif[/img]
good luck.
Any chance you might let me and a friend do a bit of temporary composing for it.
Say you send me a scene or something and we can put something over it, see if you like it. A friend of mine really wants to get into film composing. He's quality, and might be able to do something piano or mood based.
Tell me what you think.
GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!!!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">basically when we get to that scene the actor's gonna rattle a few off from memory so it appears more natural.Quote:
Originally posted by Justin M.:
So have you completey cut the VM? Or does it still survive in an edited version?
People thought it was in 'bad taste' - durr! this is a film about the porn industry after all.
IMO, for what it's worth, I felt the VM was way too long anyway and would have benefitted from cutting down by AT LEAST half. It would be funnier and have more impact.
Did you find out which references people were particularly offended by?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">haven't though a lot about music yet -- since it's a documentary it might not be appropriate, although we do have some "in film" footage which might require scoring.Quote:
Originally posted by thelaughingduck2001:
good luck.
Any chance you might let me and a friend do a bit of temporary composing for it.
Say you send me a scene or something and we can put something over it, see if you like it. A friend of mine really wants to get into film composing. He's quality, and might be able to do something piano or mood based.
Tell me what you think.
bug me in about a month's time and i might have something for you to score to.
Sorry man, thought you were making a movie.
Anyways, yeah, any stuff that does need scoring I can do.
So, what I have I missed-Is it a mockumentary or something? Or a documentary about you guys making a film, or what?
Crooked Features is a documentary about the making of Rod Shuffler's "Attack of the Clowns".
(yeah, it might actually be a mockumentary, but shhhhhh!)
principal photography has now wrapped. i give myself three months before the DVD/screener is completed.
it's been a great shoot, can't wait for the next one ....
hey, I got 25 minutes assembled so far! (the rough cut was two hours long!)
read about my slog here - there's a couple of shitty internet clips to download, one on the July 4th entry, another in the June archive. I'd be interested in feedback on the clips -- if they spark interest or incite apathy ... or are just too damned confusing.
cheers!
a new clip!
Phil Space tells it like it is
hello
Looks really good to me from watching some of your clips. A great lo budget idea, and you seem
to have managed to write in (and hidden) some pet rants into it.
I hope it comes together smoothly, best of luck getting the word out when its done, and selling the idea to peeps.
How will you distribute it?
Rod shuffler has a few ideas on where it's going, here (quicktime, 2.2MB)
larf out lowd!
Glad to hear he did read it before making it!
first fine cut complete! running time 1hr 28m !
need beer!
my DDNS provider seems to be having problems with cluscon.dynu.com right now so i've switched provider and URL to http://harp28.kicks-ass.net
frickin 'puters
since my last post in this thread we have re-cut Crooked Features substantially. it still clocks in at 1hr 24mins though, but we have shifted focus from Sandy Shores/Freda Hiscock father/daughter relationship to all-out Rod Shuffler. why? because we want this movie to be the best that it possibly can be and this was one of the many decisions we have made toward that goal.
of course, the end result could still suck ...
hey, Crooked Features is painfully near completion!
just finalising the music and the all important ident and then it'll be festival submission time!
(and time to arrange a premiere somewhere)
keep yourself up-to-date
;-)
Ahhh, cool miker - enjoyed reading the blog too, though as much as a meister he may be I'm not really liking Lucas' attitude these days. Can't wait to see how your production turns out!
Mainly because Julian Lee may be in one of my future productions [img]tongue.gif[/img]
what, the Julian Lee?!
;-)
just remember his wife runs an audi dealership :-)
(or so i heard ... )
Yep, THE Julian Lee!
Does that mean his wife can get Audi's for movies? That's cool...but I'd prefer a delorean.. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Julian Lee IS Rod Shuffler
http://harp28.kicks-ass.net/~crook/welcome.jpg
now this is what i call shameless self promotion:
here
Nice [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
Just stumbled across this (check out 2/3 of the way down)...
http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilm...ress/?&skip=30
I'm having a copy Mike Period in my film career at the moment :-)
http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilm...BE23yKmP2E6ED5
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prweb162601.php
the last one to get a Reuters or Associated Press headline buys the drinks ;-)
(yeah, it'll likely be a few years before the new wave crashes onto the shore ...)
First one to get misquoted buys the peanuts.
statistic watching at the moment, so far
121 reads
26 pick ups
maybe i shoudl of included the word sex ?
or the name Guy Ritchie ;-)
Day 2 in the camp,
Reads 1,591
Estimated Pickup 85
mmmmm, a bit short of your stastics mayve guy ritchie is the answer ?
may i basque in your auora mike.
did you "donate" at a level that gets you the yahoo news entry? that could be a big factor too.
went for $40 donation, think maybe try $80 next time.
88,000 reads and 338 pick-ups here now :-)
Rod Shuffler now has more 'net presence than I do!