Rob Blake here once more:
Last week I was posting ECSTATIC comments about "The Death of Joe Britz." Pretty much orgasming over how this thing that started shaping in my head last December was coming true. All the acting is incredible, we are moving along right on schedule everything is going just the same... except for the editing.
The editing, which was going spectacularly next week hit a snag on Thursday. I ran out of memory on my lap top to keep editing. Of course, I did not have any more memory available. Thus, I decided to go to my capture scratch and delete clips I had already finished. If any of you are familiar with a Mac, you know you have to drag most things to the trash to delete them. So I did, and played the clips without any trouble, thus I emptied my trash. I had only done this with a few clips, in case problems would arrise.... and boy did they.
I went right away to opening up Final Cut Pro again and BAM! "11 Clips Are Now Offline." FUCK!!! What have I done?! I can't recover that! (If I can, please somebody tell me).
Truthfully, we only lost about a minute of stuff, not that bad. I mean, it could be a LOT worse. Most of it is Ray's stuff (sorry Ray), but I still haven't checked if I have it on any tapes, but I believe I taped over the first days stuff.
So after this disaster, I decided to go get an external harddrive. There goes 100 bucks down the drains. Last of my birthday money, and delving into some of my "Once on this Island" money. So I have it, and now I'm transferring all the files over.
Seriously, I used to wonder things like "Why did it take Sam Raimi 4 years to make The Evil Dead?" Now I know why. Re-shoots and re-editing and re-a bunch of other random shit.
I mean, it is hard enough being a student filmmaker. You can't pay for locations to shoot, so you are left trying to scour the city and friend's homes for the perfect locations (which we found in John's house). You can't pay actors so you better hope you know people in community theater willing to help out, which luckily I do (thank you Kyle), or your friends better be willing and wanting to be in a film. You can't pay for equipment, so you have to use handheld video cameras and tripods you bought from Target and to top it all off: Nobody gives a rats ass about what you do unless it is under 10 minutes. Seriously, there is no student film festival that have over 10 minute limit. Especially Joe Britz will be stuck at a very awkward running time of about an hour and 5 minutes (65 pages in the script = 65 pages of screen time). It isn't long enough to be a feature, but not short enough to be a short. So where does it fall? Well, from research, it is technically a feature, but seriously, how many hour long movies are out there? Not many.
I'm still in love with this project, and am working on it everynight, but god damn. It gets frustrating.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
The Bloopers of Joe Britz - Day 2
Enjoy. Plus, there is some stuff that is going to be used hidden in it.
Monday, September 3, 2007
UPDATE: The Death of Joe Britz
Rob here.
Today we, once again, filmed some of Joe Britz and today, we got a LOT done. Not just short comical scenes either. We got some great, hilarious, story pushing and dramatic scenes done today and I loved every minute of it.
The day began, for me, picking up Kyle. I knocked on his door, rang his door bell, and knocked on his door again. No answer, I ended up having to call Kayla (sorry Kayla) and get his number. I finally called, and got him. From there we made our way over to Johnny Boy's house.
Luke was waiting outside for us when we arrived. He looked distraught and angry... as Luke always does when he is just standing there starring into space. We made our way in and set up the house as we needed it.
Daniel Brian showed up at 1 and we began filming. We started with Death's first scene which was very funny. Took us about an hour to film. Boy was it worth it. A lot of very funny stuff and well...
As I have stated before, I wrote the role of Death for myself but decided to forfeit the role for the movie because I felt Kyle would be perfect. At the read through he proved it to me 100% that he would be able to do an incredibly good job at it, but after filming Kyle has proved something else to me: He is the only person who can play the role to its true level of what it can be. The looks he gives, the way he uses his hands and body. It is all perfect and he adds things that, well, I would never think of doing. Kyle has elevated Death from simply a comical role to a real person. Kyle has always been a big inspiration for me. We have a very similar build, and when I was younger I admired him in all the shows he used to do. I can remember him vividly in "Kiss Me Kate", "Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", and "Grease" (he stole the show in each.)
We also filmed the final scene in the movie between Death and Joe and it was a very sweet scene. Touching and the fitting end to the movie. Simple, nice, and with a level of understanding between Death and Joe that I was hoping for.
Speaking of touching, Ray had to deliver the most touching monolouge in the movie today. When you see it, you will know what I'm talking about. It is my 2nd favorite bit of the show (the 1st being, what is now being called, "the Jesus Section" which we have yet to film) He did a great job of it. He really worked hard on memorizing it. He really does deliver it with a lot of power and anger at his friend who is seemingly ruining his life over a girl.
Also, Ray and I filmed a scene between Joe and Russel after Joe has spoken with Death. It is very funny, especially Ray's dance of victory. A lot of Ray pelvis, right in my face. I know what you are thinking: "Damn, that's hot" and, oh boy, it is. It was hilarious to see Ray do that. Seriously, I think Ray just likes to try and make me break character. Luke looked like he was almost in tears behind the camera during that dance.
We have finished all of Ray's stuff at the house. We have almost finished all of Kyle's stuff. All we have to do to film at the house now is Gwen's stuff. A big scene between Death and Joe, well, most of it and one scene with 2 smaller characers. Then we just have 1 day of location shooting.
I love this. Unlike my last 2 films I tried to get going [Passing Period(Finding Emo) and Night of the Teenage Zombies), we are so going to finish this.
On time even!
Today we, once again, filmed some of Joe Britz and today, we got a LOT done. Not just short comical scenes either. We got some great, hilarious, story pushing and dramatic scenes done today and I loved every minute of it.
The day began, for me, picking up Kyle. I knocked on his door, rang his door bell, and knocked on his door again. No answer, I ended up having to call Kayla (sorry Kayla) and get his number. I finally called, and got him. From there we made our way over to Johnny Boy's house.
Luke was waiting outside for us when we arrived. He looked distraught and angry... as Luke always does when he is just standing there starring into space. We made our way in and set up the house as we needed it.
Daniel Brian showed up at 1 and we began filming. We started with Death's first scene which was very funny. Took us about an hour to film. Boy was it worth it. A lot of very funny stuff and well...
As I have stated before, I wrote the role of Death for myself but decided to forfeit the role for the movie because I felt Kyle would be perfect. At the read through he proved it to me 100% that he would be able to do an incredibly good job at it, but after filming Kyle has proved something else to me: He is the only person who can play the role to its true level of what it can be. The looks he gives, the way he uses his hands and body. It is all perfect and he adds things that, well, I would never think of doing. Kyle has elevated Death from simply a comical role to a real person. Kyle has always been a big inspiration for me. We have a very similar build, and when I was younger I admired him in all the shows he used to do. I can remember him vividly in "Kiss Me Kate", "Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", and "Grease" (he stole the show in each.)
We also filmed the final scene in the movie between Death and Joe and it was a very sweet scene. Touching and the fitting end to the movie. Simple, nice, and with a level of understanding between Death and Joe that I was hoping for.
Speaking of touching, Ray had to deliver the most touching monolouge in the movie today. When you see it, you will know what I'm talking about. It is my 2nd favorite bit of the show (the 1st being, what is now being called, "the Jesus Section" which we have yet to film) He did a great job of it. He really worked hard on memorizing it. He really does deliver it with a lot of power and anger at his friend who is seemingly ruining his life over a girl.
Also, Ray and I filmed a scene between Joe and Russel after Joe has spoken with Death. It is very funny, especially Ray's dance of victory. A lot of Ray pelvis, right in my face. I know what you are thinking: "Damn, that's hot" and, oh boy, it is. It was hilarious to see Ray do that. Seriously, I think Ray just likes to try and make me break character. Luke looked like he was almost in tears behind the camera during that dance.
We have finished all of Ray's stuff at the house. We have almost finished all of Kyle's stuff. All we have to do to film at the house now is Gwen's stuff. A big scene between Death and Joe, well, most of it and one scene with 2 smaller characers. Then we just have 1 day of location shooting.
I love this. Unlike my last 2 films I tried to get going [Passing Period(Finding Emo) and Night of the Teenage Zombies), we are so going to finish this.
On time even!
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