OK, so last week I promised myself that I would try to write a post (at least) every Sunday night with a progress update on Quick Shop…and wouldn’t you know it, my Internet connection was down last Sunday! 🙂 So here we are, a week later, and I’m trying to stick to my promise.
Quick Shop has been in pre-production for a while now, but we’re closer than ever to finally completing the cast and getting this project off the ground. As I said in my last post, there’s only one more spot to fill in the cast, so we’re almost there.
Cast & Crew
Here is the unofficial list of the cast and crew thus far:
Cast:
Jeannie Stith……….SLEEPING WOMAN
Grover Silcox……….COUNTER MAN
Rob Hercik………….TREVOR HILL
John Leary………….MAN IN BOOTS
TBD………………..HUNTER WILLIAMS
Crew:
Martin Binder……….Writer/Director/Producer
John Leary………….Writer
AnneMarie Cronk……..Director of Photography
Mark Gradwell……….Score
Leena Devlin………..Talent Scout
Denise Binder……….Talent Scout
New Web Site
I started working on a new web site for Quick Shop over the weekend. Nothing fancy, just a relatively plain template that I want to get updated with the cast and crew list, photos and videos, etc. You can check it out here…just don’t set your expectations too high.
Andre Farms
I took another trip out to Andre Farms in Oley, PA on February 4th to talk to Ted and Patty Kazmierczak, just to make sure they were still OK with us shooting there. Thankfully they are, and we just need to work out the dates and times of the shoot. Did I mention that they are really nice people and I really appreciate them letting us use their facility? If you’re ever in the area, stop by and grab yourself a pound of fresh ground buffalo meat. 🙂
Shooting Dates/Times
The plan at this point is to shoot the entire movie within two weekends. Why shoot on weekends? Well, the most obvious reason is that most of us work day jobs. The next best reason is that the rental house that I get the equipment from has a deal where you can pick up the equipment on Friday afternoon, and return it by Monday morning and only pay one day’s rental fee. At $150 a pop for all the equipment we need, it makes sense to shoot on weekends.
Now having said that, here’s a rough breakdown of each weekend:
Weekend 1:
- Shoot opening bedroom scene (Location: possibly at my house)
- Shoot outside for opening and closing scenes (Location: TBD)
- Shoot scenes in the truck (Location: Darryl Moser’s garage)
- Shoot some test footage at Andre Farms
Weekend 2:
- Shoot all scenes at Andre Farms (Saturday and possibly Sunday night)
Of course that is all subject to change, but those are the main shooting points. I just need to figure out how to maximize the time we have the equipment…it doesn’t help that all the scenes take place at night…oh well.
Ideally I’d like the have the entire thing shot by July, possibly earlier. There are several horror-related film festivals in the area that have deadlines around August, so it’d be great to hit some of those. So maybe if all goes well the first weekend could be in April, and the second weekend in June? I don’t know…we’ll have to see how everything else goes I suppose.
Storyboards
I storyboarded the opening scene, but I still need to do the rest of the script. If you want to view the script, it can be found here. My storyboards are crude but were critical when I shot One-Day Seminar.
Rehearsals
Something I didn’t do with One-Day Seminar (which I somewhat regret) was have any kind of rehearsal or read-through. I’d like to change that this time around, and as soon as we fill that last opening, I’m going to schedule some time for the cast to get together and just do some runs through the script. You know, like they do on real movies… 😉
In Conclusion
I guess that’s about if for now. I will post again if there’s any updates during the week, otherwise expect another post next Sunday…until then.
