That leaves one more insert left to shoot, unless the edit tells us otherwise. On the subject of which, you know when I said that the transcoding process was causing the computers to steam? That has become a literal occurrence. My computer may need to go to tech hospital before the process goes further as the morning, noon and night process of heavy transcoding the Red footage has caused a bit of a meltdown...
Blog for the British indie comedy-drama film, 'Selective Listening'.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Production, day 15: Amber's audition...
This evening Miriam (producer), Camilla (actor), Ean (sound recordist) and I (director) got together to film a pickup / insert for the film. Camilla was fabulous (as were the rest of us) and so it was relatively quick and followed by another slap-up meal courtesy of the producer.
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Production, day 14: Mussels and Custard...
Well, the edit still hasn't started, but that doesn't mean we're not working! There's steam coming off the computers day and night as the Red footage is transcoded into editable files.
In the meantime, yesterday Miriam and I travelled to see Phil to get a day of pickups that we'd planned to get after the main portion of the shoot.
Among the ingredients of the day were:
Mussels
Custard
Cream
Tea bags
A Ford Escort
A blowtorch
...several toys didn't make it home.
In the meantime, yesterday Miriam and I travelled to see Phil to get a day of pickups that we'd planned to get after the main portion of the shoot.
Among the ingredients of the day were:
Mussels
Custard
Cream
Tea bags
A Ford Escort
A blowtorch
...several toys didn't make it home.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Preparing to edit... and sleep in a bed...
It's the way on most indie productions that you don't have a high-end post-production facility at your disposal. Two weeks after the shoot and we have almost finished transcoding the RED footage from the shoot into a format that we are able to edit with on the software we have. During that time, All On Five's computer and the computer of our Editor, Ricky Wood, have been working day and night.
In the meantime, the set remains in place and every night sees a Producer on the sofa and a Director on the floor. Once we know that we have all the footage in place and can confirm that it is without glitches and/or missing shots, we'll be able to reassemble a regular habitable space...
Hopefully the edit begins tomorrow!
T & M
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Why "All On Five"?
Hi,
Tim here.
Whilst in the brief lull between production and the process of media conversion that will allow us to happily enter into full swing on post-production, Miriam and I thought we'd answer the question that we've been getting asked quite a bit as to why we chose to name the Selective Listening production company All On Five.
In order to dedicate myself to a filmmaking career, I left my previous job in 2008 (just before the economic downturn). Between that time and early this year, I completed four feature screenplays – a high-budget martial arts/action story, a mid-range-budget horror and two low-budget comedies – Tall, Dark & Hopeless and The Guest List. We also completed four short films.
Knowing that any first feature would be hard to raise the budget for, we temporarily placed the action and horror scripts on the shelf and, in 2011, set to work on developing Tall, Dark & Hopeless but, even with what is considered in film production terms to be low-budget, and a terrific fresh and talented principal cast in place, we exhausted every route we could, approaching those who could help us get it made.
Therefore, in 2012, we created The Guest List, a comedy that could be made on an even more modest budget. After a period of development, we could sense that we were once again in a similar situation as with Tall, Dark & Hopeless and so Miriam decided that we needed to create a story that could be produced without any outside help.
Logic would say that I should have done this in the first place but... I didn't. Firstly, I had developed ideas for the action and horror films for years before I wrote them. Also, I was not 100% confident in any of the micro-budget/non-budget ideas we had discussed up until that point.
Fortunately, an idea that I'd had some years ago for a short film came back to me and, with a great deal of development, together we arrived at the story for Selective Listening.
We have both given up secure employment and, over several years, have dedicated ourselves to getting our film careers moving forward. Financially, we've put more into this production than most sane people would but, in order to prove to those who might help us progress and make the great stories that we have ready to go, we've had to put everything into Selective Listening.
Needless to say, we would not have been able to make this film without the time and talents given to the project by the cast, crew and others who will be named on the film's thank you list, who worked for much less than they deserve. That said, the reason for this community effort is that we all hope that each of our careers will benefit from the end result.
So, for those reasons, five years down the line, because (counting our short films) this is our fifth production and our fifth feature script, we chose to name ourselves All On Five.
Oh, and the loaded die in the logo? Well, that just indicates that we've had to fix "the game" ourselves!
Tim here.
Whilst in the brief lull between production and the process of media conversion that will allow us to happily enter into full swing on post-production, Miriam and I thought we'd answer the question that we've been getting asked quite a bit as to why we chose to name the Selective Listening production company All On Five.
In order to dedicate myself to a filmmaking career, I left my previous job in 2008 (just before the economic downturn). Between that time and early this year, I completed four feature screenplays – a high-budget martial arts/action story, a mid-range-budget horror and two low-budget comedies – Tall, Dark & Hopeless and The Guest List. We also completed four short films.
Knowing that any first feature would be hard to raise the budget for, we temporarily placed the action and horror scripts on the shelf and, in 2011, set to work on developing Tall, Dark & Hopeless but, even with what is considered in film production terms to be low-budget, and a terrific fresh and talented principal cast in place, we exhausted every route we could, approaching those who could help us get it made.
Therefore, in 2012, we created The Guest List, a comedy that could be made on an even more modest budget. After a period of development, we could sense that we were once again in a similar situation as with Tall, Dark & Hopeless and so Miriam decided that we needed to create a story that could be produced without any outside help.
Logic would say that I should have done this in the first place but... I didn't. Firstly, I had developed ideas for the action and horror films for years before I wrote them. Also, I was not 100% confident in any of the micro-budget/non-budget ideas we had discussed up until that point.
Fortunately, an idea that I'd had some years ago for a short film came back to me and, with a great deal of development, together we arrived at the story for Selective Listening.
We have both given up secure employment and, over several years, have dedicated ourselves to getting our film careers moving forward. Financially, we've put more into this production than most sane people would but, in order to prove to those who might help us progress and make the great stories that we have ready to go, we've had to put everything into Selective Listening.
Needless to say, we would not have been able to make this film without the time and talents given to the project by the cast, crew and others who will be named on the film's thank you list, who worked for much less than they deserve. That said, the reason for this community effort is that we all hope that each of our careers will benefit from the end result.
So, for those reasons, five years down the line, because (counting our short films) this is our fifth production and our fifth feature script, we chose to name ourselves All On Five.
Oh, and the loaded die in the logo? Well, that just indicates that we've had to fix "the game" ourselves!
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