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ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT---WEBSITE OPEN!
The website is back! The gates to the party have reopened! And yes, you are all invited to the dead man's party! Even the wannabes! Even John Meredith! www.OnADarkAndStormyNightMovie.com And very soon, Marco, Hector (Espektro) and I have some brand new news to share--------something.....UNNATURAL. Submitted by Ezequiel on July 12, 2008 - 2:17pm. |
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EZEQUIEL
b0o0o0ora...
dis piece is gonna be da shit... !
After seeing this, I proud to say that I know you guyz and I was there since DA BEGINNING... even at Peri's screening at Disneyland... right before you started da shoot for it.
WANNABEKARMA represent... hAhA... :)
Gray Skies At Night
IRON MAIDEN IS MY RELIGION!
I cannot express how much I love Iron Maiden! Goddamn it I love them!
EZEQUIEL
Love the website
10 days! That is amazing!
YO HO!!!
Captain Ez!!
Congrats to you and all your team
that look really great
it is a fine work!!
let´s celebrate!!!
Marco, good work with the web site!
All about this movie Rocks like a Rocket!!
- Captain Peceno
CON MUCHO RESPECTO CAPITAN
Thank you Capitan Dracula! I want you to do something for me Capitan---I want you to rock it like a rocket---but more important--ROCK IT LIKE A PIRATE CAPTAIN!
RUM IT!
EZEQUIEL
A Pirate Life
for Us
I will continue sailing the seas
Yoho!!
Cool!
Looks good!
THANK YA'LL!
MORE TO COME!
EZEQUIEL
when da Premiere?
I mean... da AFTER PARTY...? hAhA
DA AFTER PARTY!
Still yet to be announced. Putting the final touches on the picture. Once it is completely done, which includes the proper credits, music, sound mix, blah---then a date will be announced.
It was supposed to be a long time ago---but FUCK! got held back a little because of other projects that needed some attention, and I'm sort of glad because the flick is better than it was three months ago---so everything works out the way it does for a reason.
But I will announce the date and proper invites when the date is the for sure date!
EZEQUIEL
So what are you defining as
So what are you defining as a "shot"? 'cause no way you did 1,000 set ups a day. Especially considering how impressive some of those shots are.
SHOTS DEFINED
Sounds crazy right? the beauty of not shooting on film, is that from one single set up, you can zoom in, zoom out---basically get 10 shots from one angle. I know it sounds crazy. And I did have a second unit camera, which was doing the same thing. Just shooting. And since the entire movie takes place in one location, it wasn't so crazy to get a ton of coverage each day. The biggest thing we had to fight was daylight.
Since we shot in November, our daylight hours were really really short. So we shot without mercy. non stop. If something wasn't ready, 2nd unit was burning tape non stop.
We more than covered the screenplay. So while the main big set ups were being set up, other things were being shot.
This is what made the editing of the film so time consuming cause there was a lot of stuff we had to go through. Even now, if I decide to do a last minute tweak, and start going through all the shots, I'm still finding stuff I don't even remember shooting!
So it isn't impossible. You just have to keep moving no matter what goes wrong. Improvise. If the weather is fucked. Figure out how to shoot around. Things like that. But we never stopped the cameras.
People that have seen the movie can't believe we made it look the way it does considering budget and time restraints. For that, I'm proud. Whether you guys like the film, that's up to you as an audience.
And the shit we went through. Damn. It was relentless. I was waking up at 3 am, and going to sleep at midnight. Been doing that since this time last year.
But the hardest job was indeed the editing. It was a daunting task--but a fun one at the same time. Definitely a learning experience. But that was sort of my intention. I wanted to do something impossible. And it did get scary there for a moment, cause we fell behind two days---and somehow, I was able to catch up and finish a day early.
I don't know how it was done---but I can say this---it was mostly because of the team work. Everybody came together as one, and we made a film that looks like it cost a million dollars for not even a little fraction of that.
More to come!
EZEQUIEL
Scripty
I can relate to finding stuff you don't remember shooting then deciding to keep it. Then after I made a decision to keep it I found something else worth keeping all the while trying fit it within the time I allowed. In the final final final final cut 2 or 3 shots were kept and elaborated and 95% was thrown out. A lot of it was experimentation and I wouldn't attempt it as a paid Director.
Who was keeping track of what was being shot?
KEEPING TRACK OF THE SCRIPT
What we did was interesting. Since we had limited time and budget restraints, we decided to shoot the script in the order it was written. So I went page by page. The script was my shot list. And went shit went wrong, we had to improvise in order to complete our shoot days, cause if we didn't, we would have never completed the film.
It was tough. I won't lie. But when there is no money, beggars can't be choosers. So we all, as a team, did the best to our abilities.
The editing was the hell part. It was very difficult. I won't lie. But it was a good experience, cause it's a learning experience, and makes you better creatively, cause if something doesn't work in post because of sound issues, or photography issues, it forces you to think "how do I now make this work".
THE SONG, "ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT" IS HERE BABY! soon to be shared!
EZEQUIEL
Loving the song
that is great Captain!!
I am serious the song rocks!!!
Succes is coming!!
THE SONG IS OFF THE HOOK!
Thank you capitan! Rachel Lynn did an incredible job with the title track! I love this girl!
EZEQUIEL
I think a lot of people
I think a lot of people thought you ment set-ups, not shots. We did the same thing for EAP. One set up gave us 20-30 shots and because we shot HD it was very easy to get that as it was for you.
THAT'S THE BEAUTY-
of shooting digital. One set up means 30 shots. And I was shooting at a 3 to 1, so we were moving as fast as we could---and not only that, the sun kept moving, so our lighting was changing every 5-10 minutes. it was wild!
EZEQUIEL
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