Ah-Teen said:
It is possible to remove or better yet wear down the building in post production. If you've got access to such tools or can find someone will to do it.
Short answer: yes, it's possible, and I plan to do so if I can find the software/talented video effects specialist required. My friend Kevin James (who's own videos can be found on youtube) is a wizzard with special effects, as can be seen here in one of his own videos featuring myself, and he will probably be helping me with this, as well as adding blood effects (at the times when I can't use squibs or pumps), muzzle flashes, explosions, etc.
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barrythebaptist said:
Any more progress recently? whats happening with it all? When will your site be back up? When will the film be ready?
Yes, I shot a very brief but critical scene earlier this week. But in the interest of non-spoilers, that's all the info you get heh.
My site will be back up when I find someone to make a page for it, but that being said, you can still download the trailer and sneak peak from it at the same links, which I've added again below. If I can stick to the shooting schedule I've got set up, and recast a couple rolls in time to do so, the movie should be online by December/January, and there should be a DVD release some time in the months after that.
www.perniciousparadise.com/madnationtrailer.mp4
http://www.perniciousparadise.com/sneakpreview.mp4
Private Dobbs and others said:
various bits of constructive criticism
I appreciate you all pointing these things out, and don't worry, I don't take any of it personally. That being said, there are pretty strict limits to what I can and can not do to a set if it's not one I've built. If you look back to earlier posts, which showed photos of the bar and of Marcus' house, those are sets I've built and thus they look a bit more plausible. But if it's a property I don't own, I can't do anything to it and must use it as is: hence why I left the satilite dish, the hose reel, didn't break any additional windows. The kiddy pool: yeah, I screwed up big time there, I had meant to drain it and move it but I completely forgot about it before the shoot, but in the actual movie I just shot around it anyway. I should point out that much of what was mentioned about this last set was not shown in the movie because those are production stills taken by my girlfriend, not screen shots from the actual video we took: looking at those photos now, I'm almost positive that the dish and the pool never come on screen in the actual move, and with the exception of the white house in the background that I mentioned, neither do any of the other surrounding buildings.
As far as the costumes go: in response to some earlier comments along the same lines when I first started posting photos here, I made a bigger effort to dirty them up, but my camera's picture quality didn't pick it up unless I went so far overboard that it was unrealistic: in the end I figured that it was better if the costumes looked a little too clean than if they looked like the characters took a bath in motor oil every day. I agree that they do look a bit clean, but take this last scene for example: the green coat that the bearded fellow wears was left outside in my drive way in the mud for, I'm not joking, all of last winter. It was run over by plows, cars, and lots of snow and mud went through it. When it came time to shoot this scene, I grabbed it, dusted it off, let it air out, then put it on the actor: in real life, you could see the dirt worked into the fabric, but on camera, it just looks green.
Newest Update, in brief: I've made a new Myspace Film account, because as much as I hate myspace, it might be helpful to find some new actors. Check my signature for the link.
I'm currently working on setting up our next shoot, for the first scene involving the big battle with the evil cult, which I'm hoping to do some time within the next week or two. Once this is done, I'm going to have to work double time to recast my leading lady and the cult leader, as both actors for those parts are no longer available to me, but as soon as they are recast, I'll be starting work on the big action sequences.
I met with Ron Merribett of Colchester farm (
http://www.colchesterneighborhoodfarm.com/about.html ), and we have decided to shoot the gunfight scene after the harvest in late October, when everything green will have turned brown and died, and thus the place will look much more appropriate. Ron hopes to use my shoot as an opportunity to get some publicity for his own organization and whip up some interest in my production among the locals: I was glad enough as it was that he's letting me use his property for the movie, it's a big comfort to have someone with as much pull in the local government as him encouraging and backing me. Please note that the only picture I've seen on that website that shows the unpainted and unpolished back of the farm is the one linked below, and it's doesn't show much, but don't worry, the place fits the bill, or at least it comes as close as I can easily get.
http://www.colchesterneighborhoodfarm.com/images/gallery/general3.jpg
I've also begun working on another little something for you all to enjoy while you wait, but again, no spoilers
