Why I hate this movie by Scott Williams
I have absolutely NOTHING this week. I can't seem to get anybody together at all. All my hopes were for Tuesday, and now I find them dashed?? I don't understand what is going on and I wish I'd just get a concrete answer as to whether or not my actors will be in line for August 2nd. I'd really like to know.
If not, then we're really going to have to kick some ass next week. I still need everything with Carol, everything with Billy, everything with Beth, everything with Louie and Mikey... and no idea when or if it's going to get taken care of because the scheduling all seems to take place around one day.
I can't make any plans until I get a yes or no from Ryan on Tuesday. If it's no, I'd like for him to present an alternative for shooting the Carol scenes. If it's yes, then strap yourself in, because Tuesday's gonna be a fun ride.
I'm paralyzed right now in terms of scheduling. Just say the word and I can go from there. (Hint: I'd like it to be "yes.")
Until then, we've got zilch.
KOR-SAW.
Here we go...
So we need to get our act together for Tuesday. What I think is happening is we'll ride into Milton, pick up Neabel, and run down to the set and do our thing. "We" being myself, Ryan and Doug. 7:00 Call. Neabel, if you'd be so kind as to provide to Ryan, whether via this board or by e-mail, some sort of direction as to where you live, we'll be in business.
Thanks a lot all.
KOR-SAW
Quick update.
There's actually a lot to discuss but there's no time right now, so I'm just quickly updating the most recent scheduling development.
Doug & Anisah Friday at 1, Doug's place. Simple as pie.
KOR-SAW
PS-- thinking of shooting the party scene with Ryan, Doug & Alyssa soon. Saturday? Busy? Get back to me.
Where it's at
Hey y'awl.
So, today went... as planned, basically. I did a lot of editing, and all those random assortment of footage we've amassed now looks something like an actual product. It's still rough around the edges, but that we can work with.
ANNNNNYWAY, sorry for being a little tweaky these past few days. It's just very difficult, you know, trying to do this. As such I've been prone to fits of panicking and yelling and smashing things. It's not a pretty sight, but I'm calm now.
Tomorrow: it's still set to rain tomorrow so the shooting will be limited primarily to indoorsy things with Kyle and Frances. Frank, you'll be getting the call to be at Kyle's sometime in the mid-Afternoon, there's just some stuff I need to take care of first. Hope you know what you're going to wear.
I'd like to know who's available for Thursday night. I'd like to get out to the terminus as it's supposed to be a clear, temperate evening. But hey, if it can't happen, it can't.
[Ryan - sorry for not getting back to you. It actually looks like it might have been a nice night for shooting, but I got a little sidetracked and couldn't get on the computer.]
Anyway, we don't have any immediate plans other than tomorrow, and Tuesday Aug. 2nd for Neabel. Whenever anyone feels they would be free in the next week, let me know, and maybe we could work something out.
Thanks,
-Scotto
Look out, here comes tomorrow.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghh.So much has gone wrong it makes my back hurt with stress and anger. It should not be this difficult, but it is.
Tomorrow is off. I'm still going to Kyle's to edit, but there will be
no shooting. I'm not going to pin this on anyone, although it certainly has not been easy to try to wrangle everyone together; it's supposed to be thundershowers tomorrow and that would be bad news.
So fuck it.
But I'm really concerned about the amount of "oh by the way's" I keep getting. Yeah, I realize that everyone has a life and that everyone's not always available for shooting. Shit, I think I told most of
you that when you were cast. But you've got to meet me halfway. I'm freaking out just a little and there's a very easy way to remedy this. We sit down and figure shit out.
Soooooooooo,
Frances and
Kyle, I've got for Wednesday. Right? What would be necessary to turn Tuesday's failed shoot into Wednesday's, is
Ryan, Jon, and some sort of
transportation. Can we make that happen? I'd like very much for that to happen.
Get back to me.
KOR
-SAW
Adden-dumb
So, just got word from Frank (via this board) that Tuesday the 2nd won't work for her,
so what I'm proposing is that we switch the two Tuesday shoots.
That'd make this Tuesday the official date for the squad of Ryan/Kyle/Frances/Jon and Tuesday the 2nd of August a day for Ryan/Doug/Neabel.
Sound good? Let me know.
KOR-SAW
Pressing forward
OKEY DOKE kids.
As inferred by Melissa's comments, something horribly wrong happened to Wednesday's plans. Something which theoretically could have affected our plans for the future as well as what was, at the time, the present.
We all talked it out, however, and it doesn't look like things are going to be shaken up too badly. As it is, today's shoot went superbly and brough us near to the level of completeness we [falsely] enjoyed before Tuesday's mishap. i'm looking toward the future. Here's what next week (and beyond) looks like in my head...
Tuesday, July 26[*]After taking Monday off, editing begins today at Kyle's place. I mean, it was
supposed to begin a week earlier, but we all know how that turned out. Anyway, the
real footage will be captured and edited to produce the optimum flow of scene. Coverage is fun.
[*]Ryan, Doug, Melissa, the Terminus, version 3.0b. Accommodations are being made to transport Neabel into our Oakville setting (discussion was had regarding moving the setting to Milton, but I am against that for my own reasons, nothing against the Township of Milton itself.)
Wednesday, July 27For this day, I'm thinking that the scenes of Frances (Billy) and Kyle (Louie) will be shot; those that do not involve Ryan (Mark.) Frank, let me know if you're good for this time. Presently, The call is for 10:30 or 11 @ Kyle's. If we finish in good time, some editing might even get done.
Thursday, July 28-Friday July 29No idea, but I'm thinking these would be good days to get either Anisah's or Alyssa's stuff taken care of.
Tuesday, August 2ndYes, I know I once swore I wouldn't spill over into August, but I also bought SmashMouth's second CD. We all make mistakes. (Haha, I kid, but seriously.) This being a Tuesday, it'd be an optimal day to schlep a massive party down to the Terminus [Ryan, Kyle, Frank, Jon] at someone's expense. Someone with access to a red van on Tuesday nights.
Yes, i'm a horrible person, let's move on.
That's what I've got planned for the time being. Everything is subject to change, until it's actually happening. There are still a number of scenes unaccounted for, so we'll deal with that once this juggernaut of scheduled shooting is outta the way.
All let me know of any problems. In fact, let me know if you're okay - I just like to keep in touch.
Okay, that's it for me - keep on rockin'
-Scotto
If it ain't one thing...
Boy, I'll tell ya, this has not been a good week for filmmaking. Yesterday's (massively humungous) setback aside, they're calling for rain on Thursday, and if that's the case I'll call off Thursday's shoot, reschedule it for... friday, perhaps.
Tonight's shoot goes ahead as planned.
KOR
-SAW
...and then tragedy struck.
Wow, I really don't know how to say this, guys. first off I want to thank everybody who's worked on the movie so far. I hope you've been enjoying the experience, because... you're going to have to do it all over again.
Yes, because I am a horrible fuck-up (or more precisely, there are certain technical difficulties,) there is a severe lack of audio in the shots I've gotten since taking Kyle's camera. Therefore it is my sad, sad duty to report that everything since that first day of shooting at Ryan's house will have to be re-done for the sake of this movie not sucking.
So the way I see it, tomorrow will go ahead as planned, with Ryan, Doug and Neabel at the Kerr St. set to re-do their scene there and hopefully the one that was meant to be done. So if you're the type of person who is into learning lines, I'd suggest that.
Thursday, which had a shoot scheduled for doug & Ryan at Ryan's mom's will now be extended to obviously involve... every single scene that was shot there, with the obvious exception of Doug & Lauren. I'm personally okay with the idea of spending the whole day at that shoot, and Doug has agreed, I just need to get in touch with Ryan (and I know you check this thing pretty darn often.)
I'm not interested in playing catch-up for the next few weeks, I'm desperate to get this stuff back to where we were. We got so far and I am intent on getting back there.
Anyway, now that we've suffered the most horrific of all technical fuckups, it's been corrected and we should be fine for now. Keep your eyes open for future updates.
Thank you very much and keep on rockin'
-a very, very frustrated Scott
Planning ahead... sorta.
Okay, so the only plan I've got for next week is Wednesday, finishing up with Doug, Ryan and Neabel. Other than that I haven't got anything in mind, but I will begin editing at Kyle's next week... probably Tuesday.
Although I'm thinking at some point next week, we could get the Karen scenes done with Doug and Anisah. And Alyssa told me to tell her two weeks in advance for when I need her so... how does anybody (Alyssa, Doug, Ryan) feel about the week of 25-29 for those scenes?
Let me know.
KOR-Scott
Tomorrow
Okay, so tomorrow, Doug and Ryan at Ryan's (River Oaks blvd) the call is for 10 am.
Next week... I'm trying to get it all figured out. How does it look to take the same crew from this Monday out on Monday again?
KOR-Scott
What the future holds
Okay everyone, good work last night... no idea when, but obviously we're going to have to go make a similar trip another time.
Meanwhile, I'm thinking I'd like Doug and Ryan to handle their big chunk at the beginning sometime later this week. How does Friday morning look for youse guys?
KOR-SAW
Monday plans
Okay, so the plans for Monday are as follows:
We (myself, Ryan, Doug & Neabel) will all meet up at Ryan's (there are a few things I forgot to shoot last time, so i might take care of that there,) at about 7 pm, and then head out to the location (Which, if unoccupied, will be the corner of Kerr & Rebecca... a pretty docile neighbourhood for foot and automobile traffic. I hope.) We're gonna shoot as much as we can of Act 1, so we'll cover as much of pages 19-27 as possible. Obviously, there's a good chance we won't cover that much of it, but we'll get as much as possible.
This is gonna be a big shoot. Thanks all, and keep on rockin
-Scott
Teaser Poster
During shooting yesterday, the need arose for some kind of poster. Well, using some trick photography and a lot of Jasp Paint Shop Pro, I have finally created something vaguely resembling a poster.
http://www.100megsfree.com/dbehavior/half-past1.jpgI basically just heaped on the effects and came up with a couple vaguely tagline-sounding phrases. I don't have the indicia at the bottom because this is just a teaser. I'll do a different one, with actual people pictured and actual credits later.
Enjoy and keep on rockin'
-Scotto
Update on yesterday's post
Provided I can get ahold of Kyle before then, there will indeed be a shoot at Ryan's, for Doug, Lauren and Ryan. We're going to shoot Perry & Elaine's last scene, but also the scene before that between Perry and Mark. So it'll be a big day.
We're also looking at Monday evening for Ryan & Neabel at the terminus (again, directions to come, although we'll probably use Ryan's as a home base before heading out, if that's okay.) I might schedule something in between for Ryan & Doug, but Ryan's work schedule seems to forbid it (the most likely candidate would be Saturday night, but since we can't get Ryan until after 8 we wouldn't have much time.)
So there we have what's set in stone and what's in store. Stay tuned and keep on rockin'
-Scotto
They came form the sky
Well, another day, another shoot. I just looked at the footage (and by "just" I naturally mean "a while back," and I just have delayed in writing this,) we shot today and it is phenomenal. I might have caused some audio glitches but I believe them to be fixable in post. Other than that, great stuff. I have to keep from swuealing with glee when watching. Which is strange because if you know me I'm not the "squealing with glee" type.
Upcoming shoots will be for Doug and Lauren at Ryan Wheeler's place on Thursday, if everything is clear. Early, around 10-ish. I just need to confirm this with him, he who has been in Ottawa since Friday. We're also probably going to be shooting an act 3 scene between Mark and Perry on the same day.
Also, I've got Neabel for Tuesday night, so that will tenatively be at the terminus (which nobody knows where it is but me, at the moment,) but stay tuned for times.
Beyond that, keep on rockin
-Scotto
Parade
Well, our first shoot was a massive success. I just reviewed what we shot today and it looks terrific. I look forward to editing it together (Kyle -- we still good with that? Let me know.)
Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow's shoot, for Doug & Lauren, is at 1:30 at Doug's. Next week we'll probably start on some Mark & Perry stuff, as well as Mark & Carol, so Neabel, you're on deck.
Keep an eye out and keep on rockin'
-Scott A.
The Call
Lauren and Doug (specifically Lauren, since Doug can't read this. I'll call him later,) you guys officially have a call for
9:00 Monday morning, at the corner of Iroquois Shore and Trafalgar (across from the mall, the TD Bank.) If this is a problem, let me know asap. Other than that, review your lines for tomorrow (I'll have a script on-set, but it works so much better if you're familiar with what's going down.)
In case you were wondering, it's the scene where you and Doug first meet up, as well as the two lines in the coffee shop.
Great. Other than that, expect more such posts everybody and keep on rockin'
-Scott
