The Official Film Blog

Yesterday we sent out a schedule that outlines our shooting dates until we’re done.  It has us finishing up on October 25, 2009.   It means we’re a few months behind schedule and won’t be premiering in October as we originally thought we would.  No big deal, it’s finishing that is important.  Now we still have all our post production stuff to do, and that could take a while, but finishing this first part is huge.

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I’m sure there will be a party, and I’m sure you’ll be invited.  Keep watching the website to learn more.

The 48 Hour Film Festival didn’t work out like we hoped.  Well we’ll start with the part where we didn’t turn it in on time.  What we did turn in was an unfinished roughly edited product that shouldn’t have taken us as long as it did to put together.  It’s beyond me on why it took as long as it did, but it did.  I blame no one but myself.

It wasn’t from lack of effort, because everyone did a great job and worked really hard to get things done.  Jac Currie came through again and let us borrow The Saint for the day, and our actors rarely bitched.  We finished shooting with plenty of time to get things done.  Then somehow, post production kicked our asses.  We have been humbled.

After that humbling experience we went back to what we’ve been doing for the past year, and that is making The Local 504.  We learned some lessons and will hopefully do a good job of applying them to what we are doing now.  We went back to our KGB office scenes and have finished them out.  Carrollton Technology came through again with letting us use their spaces.

Vlad was dead hungover and Mihail had a time line that he was working under.  Somehow Vlad pulled his shit together and everything went off with little to no problems.  Carlos stayed quietly in the background and Margaret got to learn some more Russian.  We had some no shows on the crew side of things but were able to move forward without them.

Don’t really know what else to write right now.  I can say that we’re approaching the end of this part of the adventure.  Hopefully soon we can all have a drink together and know that we are finished shooting, for now.  Then we can lock Jonathan in a room until he finishes editing.  We’ll slide pizzas under the door for him to eat.

As usual, new photos in the photo section.

66.6%.  That’s really where we are with this.  Maybe that’s why it’s been so hard to get through this part of the filming.  You would think it would be all fun filled debauchery here.  I really need some fun filled debauchery.

Vlad got in a wreck so we had to reschedule his scene today.  In the end that sort of worked out because we were pretty tired of shooting after it was all said and done.  So in about two weeks we’ll try and shoot his scene and finish up with all the inside KGB HQ scenes.  We really have to thank Carrollton Technology for helping us out on such short notice and letting us use their spaces.  By the way, as far as I know Vlad is alright.

We had Gleb and Lexi back out again and they did a fine job.  Carlos was on top of his game.  Preston limped his way in after mysteriously waking up in Chalmette.  Allan was home sick in bed.  Oh, and there were a lot of goats.  Hmm, maybe that has something to do with the whole 666 thing.

Pictures in the photos section.

Sometimes I don’t know how we manage to get things done.  This past weekend it came to the wire.  From the beginning we went from having a nice location to having no location in just a few days, with only 3 days before we needed the location.  We went from having an actress to not having an actress with only 2 days to find a replacement.  On the morning of the shoot we woke up loosing two additional actors, because they were stuck in Florida or something.  In the end, and mostly in the span of a few hours we put everything back together again and had a nice day of shooting.  Got to thank Jack Ware, Vaughn Taylor, and Margaret for helping make everything come together with such short notice.

There are some pictures up in the photo section and for those reading on Facebook, there are some more on our website:  www.thelocal504.com