Things are really coming together. I think I already said that? Maybe for the 3rd time. Anyway, on Sunday we went back to Darren’s to film the Katie’s head shot with the with the splatter rig. It wasn’t nearly as miserable, but it was still kind of hot. Everyone was running late. No big deal, [...]
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Real Friends Help You Move Bodies – Update 2
Posted: 6th August 2007 by Travis Thomsen in DDP, New Projects0
Real 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. [...]
The past couple of weeks work and not getting enough has been killing me. However, I’m getting my energy back. I haven’t posted much lately because of this, even though I’ve been doing a few things in the background. I’ve decided that I am going to venture down the path of a feature length film. [...]
This week I started reading Bret Stern’s How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000 (And Not Go to Jail) Great book, funny as hell. If you ever had the desire to become filmmaker it’s a good book to pick up and thumb through. A few of my film making friends decided to stop [...]
Well after working most of this evening I’ve completed the first incarnation of Dodging Bullets. It weighs in at a little over 20 pages. I sent it off to my co-worker Adam to see what he thinks. The story is about Steve and his misadventures of trying to find two runaway juveniles a place to [...]
Lately I’ve been trying to come up with some ideas for a short that I want to submit to SAL Film Festival. My original ideas was to do a modern fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood. I came up with a good idea, but I’m having issues flushing out the story. The last thing I [...]