character, green screen, and pirate hunters
Just a reminder, I have three weeks to finish this thing.
Yeah, I'm not getting it done.
Not only that, but today I lost the power cord to my external hard drive, not even the whole power cord, just th epart that has the plug on it that sticks into the rest of the power cord, and I can't edit without it, and I'm fairly doubtful that the mac store will sell a replacement for the exact thing I need.
I've been mailing the four sisters, their a group of pirate hunters who spend the movie trying to capture the crew of the dirty maid. The four girls are played by students from Bryn Mawr (and Haverford) all of them friends of Alice, in fact all of them were recruited by Alice. I've been contemplating trying to get them together for a meeting, but I actually think I'm gonna try filming with them in about a week and a half, exactly nine days after thanksgiving. I think it'd be a good idea to get them together as a group and film their stuff on the green screen let them coelce(sp?) as a group before they pop up with the rest of the cast. Plus unlike most of my cast, they're all college students, they have no jobs or weddings to make it so they can't come out and film. They are Bryn Mawr students, so there's a possibility that they've dated and broken up, but I happen to know they all have boyfriends, which means it won't even be socially akward. And they might actually respect me as the director, and read the script... it'll be a significant change of pace from filming with everyone else.
The green screen does, however, present a rather serious problem. One of the four sisters wears a green vest. In fact between her, and Doc, I have a considerable worry that they're clothing will key out just like the screen. I've considered possible solutions, a hot pink screen, filming them against the blue screen on a seperate day.. I'm going to take test footage shot on the green screen, and put it side by side with footage of Tom to see if his vest dissappears when I put in the background that is provided i can find my harddrive's power cord
The last thing I'll rant on for a couple of hours is character I was kind of debating having Seamus break the fourth wall and address the audience, I already sort of half acknowledge the camera, so it's not too far a step. Seams' quirks like his realizing he's a fictional character, or constant attention to woman have not really gotten to show through as much as I'd like in this film. I want to make atempts to show that more as we continue shooting.
Character quirks are a rather significant feature in this movie. Tom is particularly good at keeping up Doc's insanity. I'm also really happy that my discussions with Ben on Hazy's quirks were taken to heart. He could have simply blown it off, but he agrees with me that he should be pushing Hazy more. I think what it boils down to, is that Doc is playing like a very insane Tom, while Hazy is comming off as a slightly amused Ben. I look forward to seeing a more drunken Hazy
The other amuzing issue is Lady Sin. One of Jill's major problems, aside from the whole making Tom cry, is that she's not so hot on the improv. This is both good and bad. It's good, because while the rest of us rabble are goofing around, and making it up as we go, Jill will be quite perplexed by our behavior, this is exactly the reaction Lady Sin should be having to the rest of us... but not entirely. I worry that the lack of improv will lead to what I have dubbed "bad theater acting."
See in theater, you aren't really supposed to improv you aren't supposed to change the lines and that, so a lot of amatures end up reading the dialogue, and then acting in between the lines. On top of that, I need Jill to interpret the chatacter. If Lady Sin is played straight off the page, she is going to come off as whiney and bitchy and no one will like her. Sin may be the competnent pirate, but she is just as much a charictcher as everyone else. She's supposed to be the cool headed soft speaking bad ass, the a typical action hero. I'm working with Jill in the hopes that we can make her such.
Then all I gotta do is work with Kim and Nate to make sure Strumpet and Thunk don't get sort of stepped on by the characters whose personalities are so very large.
Yeah, I'm not getting it done.
Not only that, but today I lost the power cord to my external hard drive, not even the whole power cord, just th epart that has the plug on it that sticks into the rest of the power cord, and I can't edit without it, and I'm fairly doubtful that the mac store will sell a replacement for the exact thing I need.
I've been mailing the four sisters, their a group of pirate hunters who spend the movie trying to capture the crew of the dirty maid. The four girls are played by students from Bryn Mawr (and Haverford) all of them friends of Alice, in fact all of them were recruited by Alice. I've been contemplating trying to get them together for a meeting, but I actually think I'm gonna try filming with them in about a week and a half, exactly nine days after thanksgiving. I think it'd be a good idea to get them together as a group and film their stuff on the green screen let them coelce(sp?) as a group before they pop up with the rest of the cast. Plus unlike most of my cast, they're all college students, they have no jobs or weddings to make it so they can't come out and film. They are Bryn Mawr students, so there's a possibility that they've dated and broken up, but I happen to know they all have boyfriends, which means it won't even be socially akward. And they might actually respect me as the director, and read the script... it'll be a significant change of pace from filming with everyone else.
The green screen does, however, present a rather serious problem. One of the four sisters wears a green vest. In fact between her, and Doc, I have a considerable worry that they're clothing will key out just like the screen. I've considered possible solutions, a hot pink screen, filming them against the blue screen on a seperate day.. I'm going to take test footage shot on the green screen, and put it side by side with footage of Tom to see if his vest dissappears when I put in the background that is provided i can find my harddrive's power cord
The last thing I'll rant on for a couple of hours is character I was kind of debating having Seamus break the fourth wall and address the audience, I already sort of half acknowledge the camera, so it's not too far a step. Seams' quirks like his realizing he's a fictional character, or constant attention to woman have not really gotten to show through as much as I'd like in this film. I want to make atempts to show that more as we continue shooting.
Character quirks are a rather significant feature in this movie. Tom is particularly good at keeping up Doc's insanity. I'm also really happy that my discussions with Ben on Hazy's quirks were taken to heart. He could have simply blown it off, but he agrees with me that he should be pushing Hazy more. I think what it boils down to, is that Doc is playing like a very insane Tom, while Hazy is comming off as a slightly amused Ben. I look forward to seeing a more drunken Hazy
The other amuzing issue is Lady Sin. One of Jill's major problems, aside from the whole making Tom cry, is that she's not so hot on the improv. This is both good and bad. It's good, because while the rest of us rabble are goofing around, and making it up as we go, Jill will be quite perplexed by our behavior, this is exactly the reaction Lady Sin should be having to the rest of us... but not entirely. I worry that the lack of improv will lead to what I have dubbed "bad theater acting."
See in theater, you aren't really supposed to improv you aren't supposed to change the lines and that, so a lot of amatures end up reading the dialogue, and then acting in between the lines. On top of that, I need Jill to interpret the chatacter. If Lady Sin is played straight off the page, she is going to come off as whiney and bitchy and no one will like her. Sin may be the competnent pirate, but she is just as much a charictcher as everyone else. She's supposed to be the cool headed soft speaking bad ass, the a typical action hero. I'm working with Jill in the hopes that we can make her such.
Then all I gotta do is work with Kim and Nate to make sure Strumpet and Thunk don't get sort of stepped on by the characters whose personalities are so very large.