Introduction

 

Welcome to our new production blog. Allow me to set the scene:

The film is a comedy about Rock, Paper, Scissors (wikipedia). Max Santoro (me) and Mookie Thompson conceived the plot together, brainstormed with some friends and members of our former sketch comedy group, wrote an outline, and forgot about it for a while. Eventually, Mookie took a sketch writing class at UCB in manhattan and decided to take on writing a proper script for the idea. In a few days he had made a lot of progress. We talked it over, ironed out the details and made some decisions, and soon he finished draft one. We revised together and soon the final script was born.

Wasting no time, we decided to start shooting a month later in September. We cast every willing actor we could think of, including ourselves, and Mookie drew up a 13 day shooting schedule that has us done by October 1st. Much planning and collecting of costumes and props ensued.

We come into our story just after the first two days of shooting (sept. 8 & 9), which went rather well.

Saturday Sept. 8:
The cast/crew assembled at 3PM in Mineola, NY. The shoot ran from 3PM – 4AM (looooong) in a handful of locations.

Sunday Sept. 9:
We all slept in Mineola for about 4 hours (not long enough), got up and went back to the location to shoot the opening scene of the film. The footage from this day came out great and we finished up around 4PM. Everyone zombied home and went to sleep early.

Now you are up to speed. I will be posting more detailed posts in the days to come about problems, ideas, and solutions. Pictures and eventually clips of footage as well.