After two more weeks of sixteen hour days, everyday, I think I’m in the homestretch as far as “locked picture” goes.
It’s tough to finally let the film go (edit-wise), but we’re up against it as far as deadlines go, and I’ve got to stop at some point.
This is the fastest I’ve ever had to produce [...]
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Thinking about the music for A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS, and polishing the scenes. A “beta” version of the trailer is almost ready. Hopefully it’s that kind of trailer that makes you want to see the film but leaves you wondering what it’s about. That’s the goal.
Photo by Cate Cameron
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LAUREN LEE SMITH is “KAREN” in A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS
TIGERS UPDATE
Working on finishing up the first cut, finding music, dialogue editing, and working on a first edition trailer for the film.
OTHER STUFF
Getting the next film ready, because I can’t have any down time. So, I’ll need between $40, 000 and $100,000 to make the [...]
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THE EDIT
I can see the finish line of the first cut (picture). Whew. Then I’ll have to go through and do it all again so the sound fits (doesn’t distract from the edit). Perhaps a dialogue editor…yes…that would be something! Barring that, I’ll have to slide in ambient sound, cross fade, etc…to get it into [...]
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Ted Hope provides a little inspiration. He brings up a point I obsess over in exactly the same way every time I write a script and prepare a film to direct.
http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-movies-were-music.html
With WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD, I suppose Guided by Voices’ “Bee Thousand” or “Alien Lanes” was my “Album” (maybe Slanted and Enchanted). With A NIGHT [...]
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DAY ELEVEN in the books. We had a really great night filming Melanie’s big speech and two fun sequences. This is an incredibly talented group of actors (Kathleen is missing from my polaroid). Halfway through filming, and the film is starting to take shape in my mind. I’m editing mentally as we go. I was [...]
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WEEK TWO: Day Six was long. Three locations and over six pages. The crew has been working really hard, and it will be nice to get back into the main house and back into the groove. The locations outside the main house are tough, and we don’t have our proper catering!
Making a film is an [...]
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JACOB JACOBSON from AdMuse wishes everybody the best this season.
CASTING IS HARD
I was sure we’d have all the lead roles cast by the end of last week, now, some cast have added a few scheduling challenges…Katie (genius AD and Co-Producer is working on adjusting our schedule to accommodate but it’s going to be tough).
Actors have [...]
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We’re less than a month away from production and things are getting crazy.
CASTING
We’re getting there…it looks like some of my favourite actors in the world are going to be in this film, and that is amazing! I can’t wait to announce the cast list (we’re just waiting for everybody to sign their contracts, etc…). We’re [...]
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WHO AND WHERE?
Casting continues…
Because this script features three brothers and a sister, the relative ages of the family members make casting contingent on who is cast first…very complex. For example, if a certain actor plays the youngest (the sister), that will provide the youngest brother’s age (and then we can cast an actor we have [...]
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