Things are finally getting busy with production of Quick Shop. If all goes as currently planned, principal photography will be done by the end of November, at which point I’ll get a rough cut going and then we can start the scoring process. Again, if everything goes as planned, I could have a film festival submittable short by February or March 2011. This is almost exactly two years after I started submitting One-Day Seminar to film festivals…where does the time go?
So anyway, here’s some quick recaps of what’s been going on lately:
Movie Poster 2.0
So I updated the movie poster somewhat as you can see below. I figured I’d use a cool font to compensate for my lack of artistic skills. Luckily I’ve got a co-worker whose wife is a Photoshop wiz. She’s agreed to help me out with designing a decent looking poster, so hopefully we can get something new created in the near future…stay tuned.
Rehearsals
So I’ve actually had two rehearsals so far (that’s two more than I had for One-Day Seminar). Back on September 28th I had Rob and Chris come over to shoot some test footage in my car in preparation for their truck scenes. Below is a screen cap from that session, I thought the footage came out pretty decent:
Then just a couple of days ago Aimee came over to shoot some test footage of her untimely demise in the bedroom. Here’s a screen cap of her hiding in the closet:
So these rehearsals have gone really well. I was able to try certain things out to see what works and what doesn’t. This will be vitally important when we go to shoot the actual scenes.
IndieGoGo
I setup a page on IndieGoGo a while ago for Quick Shop, attempting to fund raise $500. Someone just donated $5 to me yesterday, for their usage of my EZLeaves application. I only ended up getting $4.55, as IndieGoGo apparently takes a 9% commission on every donation. Oh well…I guess it’s a start 🙂
Our award-winning screenwriter
The screenwriter for Quick Shop, John Leary, just had a script called Heaven Sent that he co-wrote place 3rd in the 2010 Jacksonville Film Festival. Congratulations and great job John!
