Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Hello all…sorry it’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been busy with another video project for my day job at Gateway Ticketing Systems. You can check out the product of that effort here:
Shot on a Friday, edited over the weekend, presented to the company on Wednesday and uploaded to YouTube on Thursday. Now that it’s done, I can get back to concentrating on Quick Shop. Now only if my body would agree…yesterday it pretty much shut down on me, citing all of the 5 hours of sleep a night I’ve been giving it. I feel much better today, so now I can finally get back to treating it horribly 🙂
Bedroom Shoot Goes Well
We shot the bedroom scenes last Thursday, and in normal fashion, we ran longer than I’d hoped. We shot for about 3 1/2 hours, from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM. I was hoping to shoot the drive-by scenes with the Celica afterwards, but alas it was too late. I really need to get those shot before it snows…otherwise I might have to wait a while to get them.
Aimee did a fantastic job in playing the woman about to get murdered, and John also did a great job (of course we only saw him from the waist up ;-)). Anne was also instrumental in setting up and lighting each shot. It was a good team effort…one that I’m sure will pay off when the movie is complete.
Latest Poster
Angela has been working hard on the new poster….and I can tell you it’s looking pretty damn good.
I’m sure it’ll be tweaked along the way, but I think it looks fantastic. Feel free to share your opinion. I’m also considering a different tag line. Perhaps I’ll put one of those fancy polls on the site…we’ll see.
Marlboro, Pringles and Reddi-Whip…Oh My!
So as it turns out, we ended up getting quite a few visible products in several of the shot at Andre Farms. One of the more noticeable ones was the big Marlboro sign behind Chris.
I figured it would prudent for me to contact these companies (which include Phillip Morris, Pepsi, Martin’s Potato Chips, ShurFine, Conagra Foods and Proctor & Gamble) to get their permission to have their product/logo in the movie. So far it’s been a bit of a pain getting a hold of these companies; my two e-mails to Phillip Morris have been returned with robot-like stock responses, and other companies haven’t even responded yet. Thankfully Martin’s Potato Chips has given us their blessing, and Proctor & Gamble wants me to write them a hand-written letter explaining what I’m doing with Pringles. It’s a slow but necessary process, even though I’d probably be OK with using these images without permission, based on this answer I got from a copyright blogger.
Post Production
So other than a few small drive-by scenes, I’m pretty much ready to start editing this thing. I’ve been in contact with Mark Gradwell and he’s still on board to score the movie. My original goal was to have a rough cut done by Christmas, but I’m thinking early January might be a bit more realistic. I guess we’ll see how the editing goes.
I guess that’s about it. I will keep this blog up to date as things happen in post-production. I hope everyone has a happy and safe holidays.
