Don't you just love it when a plan doesn't come together?
Two Mondays ago I heard it thru the grapevine that the SC-FI channel were running a 48 Film Challenge so I pounced on it like a Somalian on a Red Cross Food drop. I emailed, phoned and googled and I managed to get a skeleton crew, actors, props, costumes and some of the locations but the crew seem to be asking for a new shoot date and the remaining key location remains elusive. I bet Hannibal from The A: Team never had such trouble.
But lets rewind to more happier times when I actually thought this project was a go and I was writting it. The story was a mish mash of horror clique, comic books (actually one comic book: Uncanny Xmen # 170), indie music videos (Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Y Control'), Sk8 Board tapes - all stirred up into this DIY Gondry-esque film making etchic where CGI effects are replaced by imaginative homemade constructs. I was having a whale of a time devising the whole thing.
Production was my Achilles Heel. I basically had to drop the writing pen and drawing pencil and start organizing things to make this film happen the way I saw it on the slim shooting & completion date of JUST ONE WEEKEND. I openned up Google, cracked open my notepad and started putting a serious dent into my phone credit to russle up a crew, actors, props etc etc yadda yadda. It was a bitch and next time I'll get somebody else 2 do it coz it leaves, like, ZERO time to work on a script or storyboards or character designs.
For me money wasn't a huge issue - I worked it out that the film will be done cheap 'N' cheerful - but it was street cred. Any major studio or minor production company has a rep, cred or a name that will make people who can give you a location help you out and stuff but when you're just a Ramsey and a one man production company they play you off like a snooty hot girl @ a club, LOL.
Right now I'm trying to decide to a go still for the 48 Hour Film Challenge and put out a film that I didn't envision or write a completely different plot and start it all over again. Problem is I have a liking for the one I've already written - it's wacky, fun and pretty imaginative. Or maybe do I screw the challenge and film it at a latter date so I'll have more time and I can shoot it the way I wanna?
I'm starting to sway toward the latter.
I like to listen to stuff when I'm being creative - it inspires me lots - so here's the playlist of music (or choooonz) I was playing in the background whilst I was ferverously plotting out the story and the look of my short film.
EVERYBODY NOSE - n*e*r*d
AMERICAN BOY - Estelle Feat. Kanye West
BEARS ARE COMING - Late Of The Pier
RUN - Gnarls Barkely
ALWAYS WHERE I NEED TO BE - The Kooks
A-PUNK - Vampire Weekend
CREATOR (Vs FreQnasty + Switch Mix) - Santogold
BECKY - Be Your Own Pet
4 MINUTES (Radio Edit) - Madonna Feat. Justin Timberlake + Timbaland
HITTEN - Those Dancing Days
CHASING PAVEMENTS - Adele
PEACE OUTTTTTTTTTTTTT (2B Continued)
- RAMZEE x
Two Mondays ago I heard it thru the grapevine that the SC-FI channel were running a 48 Film Challenge so I pounced on it like a Somalian on a Red Cross Food drop. I emailed, phoned and googled and I managed to get a skeleton crew, actors, props, costumes and some of the locations but the crew seem to be asking for a new shoot date and the remaining key location remains elusive. I bet Hannibal from The A: Team never had such trouble.
But lets rewind to more happier times when I actually thought this project was a go and I was writting it. The story was a mish mash of horror clique, comic books (actually one comic book: Uncanny Xmen # 170), indie music videos (Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Y Control'), Sk8 Board tapes - all stirred up into this DIY Gondry-esque film making etchic where CGI effects are replaced by imaginative homemade constructs. I was having a whale of a time devising the whole thing.
Production was my Achilles Heel. I basically had to drop the writing pen and drawing pencil and start organizing things to make this film happen the way I saw it on the slim shooting & completion date of JUST ONE WEEKEND. I openned up Google, cracked open my notepad and started putting a serious dent into my phone credit to russle up a crew, actors, props etc etc yadda yadda. It was a bitch and next time I'll get somebody else 2 do it coz it leaves, like, ZERO time to work on a script or storyboards or character designs.
For me money wasn't a huge issue - I worked it out that the film will be done cheap 'N' cheerful - but it was street cred. Any major studio or minor production company has a rep, cred or a name that will make people who can give you a location help you out and stuff but when you're just a Ramsey and a one man production company they play you off like a snooty hot girl @ a club, LOL.
Right now I'm trying to decide to a go still for the 48 Hour Film Challenge and put out a film that I didn't envision or write a completely different plot and start it all over again. Problem is I have a liking for the one I've already written - it's wacky, fun and pretty imaginative. Or maybe do I screw the challenge and film it at a latter date so I'll have more time and I can shoot it the way I wanna?
I'm starting to sway toward the latter.
I like to listen to stuff when I'm being creative - it inspires me lots - so here's the playlist of music (or choooonz) I was playing in the background whilst I was ferverously plotting out the story and the look of my short film.
EVERYBODY NOSE - n*e*r*d
AMERICAN BOY - Estelle Feat. Kanye West
BEARS ARE COMING - Late Of The Pier
RUN - Gnarls Barkely
ALWAYS WHERE I NEED TO BE - The Kooks
A-PUNK - Vampire Weekend
CREATOR (Vs FreQnasty + Switch Mix) - Santogold
BECKY - Be Your Own Pet
4 MINUTES (Radio Edit) - Madonna Feat. Justin Timberlake + Timbaland
HITTEN - Those Dancing Days
CHASING PAVEMENTS - Adele
PEACE OUTTTTTTTTTTTTT (2B Continued)
- RAMZEE x
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