Today is payday and this means I have the $125 bucks to sign up for the National 48Hr Film Project. San Antonio’s representative is Erik Bosse of our local filmmakers, and a damn good one at that. I have a few people signed up, but I’ll need more. I have some stiff competition this year. [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Team Dark Design is official apart of the National 48Hr Film Project
Posted: 31st July 2007 by Travis Thomsen in UncategorizedReal Friends Help You Move Bodies – Day 2
Posted: 29th July 2007 by Travis Thomsen in DDP, New ProjectsDay 2 has wrapped and principle photography is complete. It was a hell of a day. We started filming at 9AM and went to 7PM. By days end we were all sweaty, dirty, stinky and gross. It was fucking worth it. We have some killer footage. We started the morning off by getting the rest [...]
Real Friends Help You Move Bodies – Day 1
Posted: 28th July 2007 by Travis Thomsen in DDP, New ProjectsTonight was the first day of shooting Real Friends Help You Move Bodies. So far I am rather impressed. Things got off to a late start but shoot was quick. Only 3 hours. We didn’t get started till 8PM 2 hours later than I had planed. Mainly I was waiting on extras to show up. [...]
Tonight we had our first rehearsal and only for Real Friends Help You Move Bodies. I am pleased with the cast. Scott, Christian and Jason are going to do a bad ass job. Friday we being shooting the party scene and Sunday we shoot the rest. I’m hoping the rain will subside on Sunday so [...]
I’m not sure why I’m making a big deal out of this, but what the hell. Yesterday, the blog has received it’s first comment. Some how people are find the site and for some reason, reading the blog. Thanks for the comments Dan! In other news, I’ve almost have a full cast for my new [...]
SAL’s deadline is August 16th, which leaves me no time to film Dodging Bullets and participate in the 48HR Film Project August 10th through the 11th. If I’m going to do both I need to film something quick and before the end of the month. To night I started on the first draft of my [...]
Well I’ve finally posted Just Getting By Episode 1 to the site. I still need to add it to the official JGB website. Check it out
Over the weekend I finally finished the new export of JGB Ep1. I’ve added in some MagicBullet color correction and it takes about a day to do the render. When I left work this morning I left it making the encoding to Flash so if all goes well I should have it online tonight. Now [...]
Today one of my co-workers (Darren Fransella, featured in Joined and VITD) and long time friends gave me a hand held camera stabilizer. How freaking kewl is that?! It a real nice one to boot. It comes with a built in b/w LCD and camera mounted lamp. Thanks Darren!
Tonight, well I guess technically yesterday Just Getting By was screaned at Ruta Maya. The turnout was surprising higher than I anticipated. Ruta Maya was freaking packed! I’m ecstatic to report that JGB was very well received by the audience. I’ve been working on the project for a long freaking time, somewhere around 6 months. [...]