Sunday, April 30, 2006

With a Gun Down Your Throat You Can Only Speak In Vowels

I know that you may be slightly upset that I haven't been updating the site every shoot day like I promised, but it's for a good reason... I'VE BEEN SHOOTING THE EFFING MOVIE!
After the shoot from hell the Antioch decided that we should pray before every shoot. This has been our savior, because after that decision we have had great shoots. I'll update you on the details. Thursday we skipped school and showed up on location at 8 in the morning, and didn't wrap that day until 11 at night. But it was all worth because we got three days worth of shooting done in one day. Friday we went to LA to shoot at the precinct. That was phenomanal. We got eveything done, and it looked fantastic. After the shoot we went to Tommy's burgers, if your ever in LA I seriously reccommend that you try it out. On saturday we showed up at the Geneva Presbyterian chruch to shoot the entire interrogation scene. Although we had a couple of hiccups we got everything, and It looks fantastic.
While we were shooting the interrogation scene I was watching all of the shots in our monitor in Black and White, and we decided that on the DVD you will have the option of watching the film in noir version which will totally be in Black and White. I don't know if anyone will watch it, but I think that it will be sweet. Another DVD update, a friend of ours matt, filmed some behind the scenes stuff on friday at the precinct so we will also have that featured on the DVD. I will keep you updated on the last days of fiilming, post production, and the screening. So please come back.
I would now like to thank the members of cast and crew for all their dedication to the project-
Cast-
Gene, Chris, Randy, Doug, Jan, Arian, and Dave
Crew- Anthony, Lyndsey, Katie, Matt, and anyone else who I forgot, and thank you all for you support.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Creating Something Out of Nothing Only to Destroy It

The journey of pre-production came to a close, and a new epic journey began. That's right we started filming Monday night. All of us were ecstatic to get behind the camera and begin shooting our next fil. We arrived at Ryan's early to set up. Everything went very smoothly, and when the cast arrived we were ready to go. That is when the devil showed up. Everything went to hell. All the things that could go wrong, did. We had equipment problems light problems, everything. We finally had to end the shoot prematuarally, and only got two shots done. When the shooting was done I walked outside I screamed loud profanities that I cannot write on this blog, and woke the neighbors. We had to reschedule our shoots. We all went home feeling terrible. I woke up and had a terrible day.
I then started to feel better when we fixed all of our equipment problems, and found out that the footage we shot looked perfect. The whole thing is just a small bump in the road. One good thing that came out of that night from hell was that we took some bitchin' photos so please check out the flickr site located to the right. Please come back this week and see updates on everyday we shoot. We'll have new pics and more news. Please pray for us we'll need it. Thanks for the support.

Saturday, April 15, 2006

To Live and Die in L.A.

This friday Ryan, and I joined with our good friend Anthony went to Los Angelas to scopre out a promising precinct for "Scarecrow of Nations". It was perfect. We were truly blessed. You can see the photos in our new Flickr page down below the links, check it out so you can see what it will be like.
Production is moving along great. We have tied up all loose ends and I would like to thank Chris for helping us out with lighting. We start shooting next week. We have found a venue to screen our film. Saddleback church has agreed to let us use one of their tents and a huge screen. I will keep you posted on the date, and hopefully you all can join us.