Quick Shop Post-Production Update

Hello all…just wanted to give everyone a quick update on where I’m currently at with Quick Shop.

Target Completion Date
So the other night I was browsing through potential film festivals that I want to submit Quick Shop to, and I came across the SouthSide Film Festival in Bethlehem, PA.  I had submitted One-Day Seminar to them back in 2008 and unfortunately they did not accept it.  I’d really like to submit Quick Shop to them as this is the most local film festival around…and their (extended) submission deadline is March 10th.  So there’s my new target date…I am working hard to have a submittable movie by the beginning of March in order to make the deadline.

Editing Update
I’ve been hard at work editing, usually staying up until 1 AM or 2 AM these last couple of weeks.  I’m happy to say that as of last night, I have a completed rough cut of Quick Shop!  With no titles or credits, it’s clocking in at 14:43.  I was hoping it would be under 15 minutes, and I think after trimming, tweaking and with the addition of the titles and credits, I should be able to keep it under 15 minutes.  Film festivals tend to like shorter “shorts”, so I think keeping it under that 15 minute mark will help us get into more festivals.

I screened the rough cut for my wife Denise tonight and she liked it.  There are certainly lots of things to tweak, and that’s exactly what I’ll be doing for the next two months.

Scoring
James and I have been going back and forth with the score for the opening scene, and he should have something solid soon.  He also wrote some country music for the radio station which is pretty cool.

John Leary’s New Web Site
John Leary, the co-writer of the script, just setup a new web site which features all of his current projects including Quick Shop.  Stop on over and give it a view!

http://www.johnjosephleary.com/

Quick Shop Screening in Manhattan
I’ve been offered a chance to screen a rough cut of Quick Shop to an audience in Manhattan in early March, thanks to Alison McMahan.  She runs Homunculus Productions and has co-wrote several screenplays with John Leary.  Alison is going to be screening her new documentary Gluteus Maxximus to an audience, and then she moderates a discussion to get feedback on the film.  She’s letting me come and show a rough cut of Quick Shop, and I think it’ll be a really cool way to get some honest feedback.  Thanks so much Alison!

Poster Update
Angela is back working on the poster, and we’re making some small tweaks to it.  Below is the latest and greatest version:

We’ve also started working on the DVD cover art, which I’ll post pictures of as soon as we have something.  After that I’d like to start incorporating some of the graphics from the poster/DVD cover into this web site.  Very exciting stuff….

Movies by Martin vs. Big Tobacco
I think I’ve finally given up on this David vs. Goliath fight…I’ve come to grips with the fact that I need to blur out the dang Marlboro sign 🙁  Fortunately I found a Pixelator plugin for my video editing software which should make it a lot easier to do it so that it’s not too noticeable.

I guess that’s about it.  If you’re on Twitter, you should follow me to get updates more often.  And for you FaceBook peeps, feel free to post something on my wall.  Until next time…