Done Shooting

The last two days have gone nicely.

The day we spent in Blachard park when excellently well. My actor Kenny was an amazing sport, getting hit over the head again and again until we had the shot.





So saturday went nicely. It was very relaxing.



My lovely AD at work.

Though in her defense, we probally didn't need her that day.



OMG LORTIR!
Here's Lortir being typecasted as usual.




And here's us looking at Superman.



Sunday went niecly too. The clouds played games with us every now and then, and two of our featrued extras ditched on us at the last minute, but I subbed Carla and B, and they did quite nicely. Aside from that, no problems.

Blocking was much easier than I thought it would be, it especially helped that we weren't worrying about sound, so I could call out ques.


Finally, on a disturbing side note...



This is the trail of blood we found that started on Magnolia, went all the way down Wall St. and ended disturbingly at a dumbster.

Day 2

I'm tired.
But we finished day 2. It went well. I'm sunburned.

Drive By Shooting

Today was day 1 of filming.
Marco, B and I drove around downtown filming out the side of the car.

It was awkward, and yet, fitingly helarious.

Imagine a slow moving vehicle driving by with a camera pointing out of the tinted window while other cars drive around it. That was us.

B, who was driving, kept putting on the emergency lights and tried to get people to drive around us. Every now and then B would pull over to the side and curse in spanish at stupid people. Some of it was in english.

She told someone to suck her ass. Grose.

For the record she wasn't upset, she just learned how to drive in Miami.

Marco, dedicated, cool and collected, kept telling us to ignore the cars behind us. As a car approached, he simply said, "Just keep going slow, let them do whatever."

I just kept my best to avoid eye contact with any of the other drivers, and at the same time hide my laughing. I wished that we had a decoy old lady behind the wheel so there was at least some tangible escuse for us going -5 MPR.

I felt as if we were a combination of a creepy spy cam and a sneaky sniper assination team.

Marco says we got some good footage, so I'm excited to watch it while I import it's hour-long-of-driving-around-goodness.

Suprisingly nobody honked at us.

Progress

So Idris and I went shopping for props and craft services for the weekend. It all came out pretty cheap too, so yay! We have had 2 small setbacks regarding a couple of our featured extras. So we will be quickly searching for the promiscuous woman extra and the fighter extra. Other than that we are ready for the weekend. We are still talking to certain extras about wardrobe but it should not be anything difficult and we should have it all ready by Friday. Marco, Idris, and I go out shooting the B Footage on Friday and then practicing with the steadicam-like thing (I always forget the name), so Marco can be familiar with it for the weekend.

If anyone has a sunroof in their car and wants to help out on Friday with the B Footage please let me know!

Other than that I think we are ready for production and I believe we will have a great shoot!

Test Footage

Sunday Marco and I went around to all our locations to get some test footage, and so Marco could become more familiar with the location and blocking.

While we were there I came across the pwefect weapon to use on my actor Kenny. I promptly hid the small log in a bush for next saturday.

I have to say I am getting both nervous and excited about our upcoming shoot days.


B and I are sending out call sheets today, as well as getting all the props and wardrobe materials we need.

Woot!

I'm pretty excited.
We officially have permission to film in Blachard park.
For those of you who are unnaware, Blanchard Park does not have a reputation towards being film friendly. If you want to film at Blanchard Park, I suggest trying to permit process at least 3 weeks in advanced, because they require not only a permit, but a cover letter before they give you permission and the facility use aplication. In other words, there's a little effort required getting permission to film there.

But it's all done, and we're set with our locations.
So now all we have to worry about is weather and people getting into our shots.
And getting all the props and wordrobes set up.
... And choreographing the getting hit in the face log bit twice in a oner.

Also, Erin apparently has tons of stock footage she's willing to let me use, so thank you Erin!

Almost done Urbanizing

So I thought I finally had it all done with pre-production, then Blanchard Park decides to add some more to my list. So now I have to fill out a cover letter with an application, including the permit I recieve from Orlando Film Commission in order to film in the park. They need to know everything we are doing. So if you ever want to film in Blanchard Park get ready for lots of paperwork. I should be sending all that in on Monday. Other than that, things are rolling!

Producer Update

I finally sent out the permit application to Dale Gordon and I am now awaiting her approval. I am also awaiting cast deal memos to be sent in from our cast. Other than that, our production book is coming along fine. We should have everything ready by Friday, if all goes well. IDris and I are planning a cast meeting a week before shooting so we can get them wardrobe directions and a better understanding of what they will be doing. That's it for now!

Casting

This is what Beatriz wrote in her Blog

Urbanization:

We just finished casting this weekend with the help of our 1st AD and Casting Director, Carla Tamma. On Monday we are going to review the video of the actors and choose who we want. Idris and I already drove around downtown and found 2 streets to use for the film. I am in the process of obtaining permits for those locations, as well as for Blanchard Park. Other than that, we will be having a crew meeting shortly and a cast meeting probably on Saturday.
Shooting begins February 23 and ends on the 25.

I would like to add that we have all our actors picked out.