Saturday, December 25, 2010

Seesaw

So it's finally here.

This short film marked my return to film-making after something like over a year of just being fat and lazy.

Should I mention that it was a million degrees when we shot this? It also took 3 days of shooting (seriously). Oh and in between the last two shoots, Spencer had to shave his goatee for a play and it hadn't grown back fully...so we used black face makeup to make it look thicker. I think it worked.

Oh and if you're saying "Why didn't you just wait another week for his beard to grow back?" Well you should know that he had to shave for the publicity photos and that after those photos were taken he had something like a week before the play started. So we had a few day window where he could grow some facial hair out.

One thing I noticed is my framing and audio was kinda lousy, especially in the truck scenes. But I had never shot anything in a moving vehicle so it was a learning experience. The main thing to take from this was that it got me back in to the film-making mind set. Which led to the three Sweded films, and my next project (it's gonna be big)...

So enough bull crap, enjoy.