Dark Design Pictures

Join us for the premier screenings of the 2008 San Antonio 48 Hour Film Project!

Screenings
Date: Wednesday, August 13
Time: Group A: 6pm and 9pm
Group B: 6:30pm and 9:30pm
Place: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Westlakes, 1255 SW Loop 410
Notes: Tickets can be purchased at the door half an hour before the first screening.

Tickets may sell out, so be sure to get in line early!

Below are listed the team names and the team leaders whose films will appear in each of the two screening groups.

Group A
Screening at 6pm and 9pm

Lone Bannana — Jose Carrillo
Four Studios — Ismael Leiva
Dark Design — Travis Thomsen
NALIP-SA — Veronica Hernandez
Haunted House Studio — Carlos Pina
Emerald Sunrise Productions — Sandra Quest
Team TAD — Todd O’Neill
Steel Knight — Josef Gonzales

Group B
Screening at 6:30pm and 9:30pm

Nice Work — Fernando Del Bosque
Odyssey Creative — Rogelio Salinas
Team 1991 — Allison Herrera
Thundera — Ismael Garcia
Film Classics — Michael Druck
Nosferatu — Ryan Harris
iChingao — Victor Payan
Walk the Walk — Drew Mayer-Oakes

The Alamo Drafthouse has a full menu of eats and drinks, so come and make an evening of this once-a-year event!

Also, check out the website for the San Antonio 48 Hour Film Project. The blog is now open for team members to post their heartwarming and heartbreaking testimonials of an intense, hectic weekend of movie-making.

www. 48hourfilm.
com/sanantonio/

And as always, direct any questions or comments to:
Erik Bosse, San Antonio Producer of the 48 Hour Film Project
210-482-0273
sanantonio@48hourfilm.com

See you there!

I wanted to give a shout out to my cast and crew. You guys did an incredible job.

From left to right:
Monica Garcia – Line Producer
Matthew Jasso – Actor/Editor
Sarah Hahn – Actor
Travis Thomsen – Writer/Director/Producer
Loki D. Wolf – Actor
Whitney Hoy – Actor
David Medellin – Actor
Christian Thorne – Actor
Heather Guckian – Actor
Jason “Shark” Mc Guckian – Actor

Seriously WTF!?

Honestly with the way this weekend has been going it’s the icing on the cake. There were a few thing here that need to be cleaned up but over all and it looks fantastic. Matthew and I are both disappointed we couldn’t get an export. Erik was kind enough to let us turn it in tomorrow. I am tired very fucking tired. I’m glad it is over with. I had fun and it was a hell of a ride. I’ll be signing up again next year and there is Drew’s 48HR event later this year. Matthew and I were talking about turn this into a feature length film. I really like concept of the story. After I wrote the script I had other ideas but it was to late to change it. Christine’s character Mr. Zebra will be making a return. He is a character I want to explore more.

Well better luck next year. LOL

I woke up about 7:30 and I didn’t want to get out of bed. I didn’t get all the color correction done like I wanted but I got in the areas that count. I met up with Matthew at Goen around 9:30 to start editing. So far so good I guess. I wish we got an earlier start. We have 3 pages of the script edited and another 3 more to go. So we are probably looking at about 5 for the finish cut, maybe 6. There are a few scenes which will be real fast to edit together. Keeping my fingers crossed. I’m going to be really annoyed it we don’t have a completed cut, but what we have so far looks really good.

It seems I can’t be involved with the 48HR Film Project with out something going to shit. While at the Cup of Joe preview I got a call from my wife. It was load so I stepped outside to talk. She was crying so I knew what was wrong. He cat Miss Kitty was diagnosed with mammary cancer earlier this year. The inevitable had finally come, my wifes cat was going to have to be put to sleep. So I excuse myself from the party and I get my camera from Matthew before going. I got home my wife was a complete wreck. I held her for a bit while she cried. I asked her what she wanted to do. Honestly, we both knew what needed to be done, but she didn’t to admit it. I told Leah to say good bye to Miss Kitty while I looked for a box. Before I left I threw the camera battery on the charger and queue up a tape for import. The show must go on. I got the cat and took off for the vet. I admit it, I cried like a little bitch. It fucking sucked. I go home a little before 11PM. Queued up another tape and told myself the show must go on. So I’ve gotten 3 hours of sleep, baked in the heat, and now had to have to euthanasized. Seriously, what the fuck? I can’t sleep so I might as well get some color correction and compositing in. Ugh what day. Edit better be some smooth fucking sailing this go around.

Ugh what day. Up by 6AM over at Matthew’s by 7PM. My dumb ass left the camera on all night and we had no juice. The charger and spare battery were left at Goen. We made a mad dash to, got the battery on the charger and filmed the opening scene.

By 9AM we head on to French Street. Yet another snag. Some jackass decided it was a fine day to paint strips in a parking lot. You would think this wouldn’t be to much of a big deal but it was using the machine that was loader than a lawn mower. By the way, we left the big battery and the charger at Goen yet again. We get a few things we can dub the audio. No real talking just wides and such. Mathew heads back to Goen for the battery. Monica, one of my co-workers who was so nice to help us got us the location for the house on French Street. She went over to talk to the painters. About 15 minutes later they were done. Filming resumes. Erik showed up to take some production photos. He missed most of the exiting stuff the night before.

We finish what we need about 15 minutes after Jason and his wife showed up. We wrapped the scenes and French Street and headed back to Goen to finish off the scenes in the basement. By for we were wrapped for the day. By this time I’m hot, tired and in desperate need of a shower. When I get back to night from the Cup of Joe cast party I’m going to capture the footage. I want to try and do some compositing tonight and some color correction. Not a whole lot but there are a few areas that will look really cool.

Only 3 hours of sleep. I’m really hating life right now. Off to Matthew’s and then to French Street.

I’m going to keep this brief because I’m really fucking tired. Tonight I drew Suspense/Thriller. The Character is Brad a water expert. The prop is paint and the dialog is “What’s the worst that could happen?” By the time I got to Timo’s I had a story. I’m not going to give it away but it involves a murder, a ghost and a psychic. I was done with the script by 10PM and we started shooting at 11PM and got done at about 1:45. No I’m not done. Still have 2/3s to go. But it went fast. It was tight and looked really good. The acting was great.

Today is the big kick off for the National 48HR Film Project. I’ve been kind of mellow about it until know. I’m getting pretty excited. Well I guess antsy is more appropriate. It the not know what you are going to draw and how to tie the assigned dialog, prop and character into what you are doing. I know I want to do something different. I think it would be neat to have a sword fight on the streets of San Antonio. Not sure how that would fly. But if I draw fantasy I’m going to do it. What ever I get I’m going run with it punk it make people go wow, that really kewl! I don’t care if I win. I just want to have fun and make a short film that people will enjoy.

Okay it have been forever and a day since the last post. Yes I am a lousy blogger, but I haven’t had much to write about lately. After being harassed by veriest people. I’ve finally posted all the videos back in the Filmography. I know, about damn time! So it’s done. I’ve also added to the default page my links to MySpace and YouTube and to top it all off I’ve added a link to my personal MySpace.

Oh yeah, San Antonio 48 Hour Film Project 2008, that is the title of this post after all. Well it’s getting to be that time of year again. Yes, once again I’m signing up and shelling out the $135.00 for the privilege of making a short film. lol And like last year, I’ll be teaming up with Matthew Jasso. Who does what remains to be seen, so we shall see how it goes. Tonight was the first meet up at Ruta Maya. It was very nice. Turn out was a little low, but fun. For the next few weeks every Tuesday the group will be meeting until the the night of the big event. The meet up was good and I had fun. Great networking opportunity. I met some new people and ran into some other team leaders from last year. Once again Erik Bosse is spearheading this event.

I’ll go into more details later. My brain has officially turned into mush and I need to get some sleep.