In The Reel World

I was on The Movie Mob tonight on Reelz Channel.

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Today was SO MUCH FUN!

I was told they would start at 11. I TRIED to get there at 10:30, but I got lost. I showed up at 10:40. Nobody was there! The first person (besides me) to show up was the sound tech, and he got there about 5 to 11.

I was SURPRISED by the predominantly female crew. The crew consisted of me, director (female), DP (female), camera operator (female), writer (female), producer (male), sound tech (male), boom operator (male), set decorator (female).

They’re using a super-16 arri! Rock on! I tried to watch how they loaded the mags and put on the focus puller… but the set decorator dragged me away to put up posters and move furniture. So sadly, I’m still clueless about how to put together a film camera.

The DP showed me how to check for flares though. Mainly because she needed me to flag them out!

They were short on extras, and the director wanted to put me in the scene, but the DP wouldn’t allow it because she needed me for other stuff. *shrugs* I don’t like to be on camera anyway.

I got sent from department to department, doing jobs for set decoration, the DP, the director, the producer… all over the place! And it was so much fun!!!!!

Things I did included:
-putting up posters and fliers as decoration
-moving furnature
-blackbagging several windows
-adjusting the tripod for the camera
-setting up lights, adjusting barndoors, putting up diffusers
-loading and unloading equipment vehicles
-flagging out flares
-bouncing light
-finding where extras ran off to
-setting up the craft service table
-doing the film log when the producer had to fill in as an extra
-being the “dummy” to hold the graycard

I even helped make the look of 2 shots better!
1) For a close-up, the DP was having some troubling lighting it. The lead’s nose kept casting a nasty shadow. So I said, “You could light her from below…” She asked me what I meant, so I said, “Turn that arri a bit, so that it comes down across the face of the camera. Put down the eyebrow to block out any flare. I can kneel down here with either a reflector or bounce board to cast the light up from below. It’ll kill that one shadow.” She asked the camera operator if she thought that would work. she said it might. They asked the director. She said sounds good. I grabbed a bounce board, the DP moved the light, and bam! They shot it how I suggested (and loved how it looked).

2) For another close-up, I noticed that there might be something missing. So I asked the camera operator, “How tight is this shot on her face?” She answered that it’s “pretty close”. I said, “Well… can you see over this shoulder at all?” Se checked the frame and said yeah. So I answered, “in the master shot of this, you had such and such standing back here…” They put the actor in place. I saved the continuity!

After the shoot was done and I helped put everything away, the director and DP praised me saying how much of a help I was and that there were certain shots they’d never have gotten right without me.

The producer asked me if I had a card (thanks guys!!!!!) and told me he’ll probably be contacting me in a few weeks with some more jobs.

Of course, it started snowing while we were shooting, and it was REALLY bad by the time I left. The one hour drive home took more than 3! And I almost had accidents a couple times (people deciding “oh I have 4-wheel drive, I can do 70 through 4 inches of snow… OOPS! What was that I almost hit? And aveo?”)… but all in all, a SUPER fun day!

Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns

Shutter

Drillbit Taylor

Boarding Gate (limited)

The Grand (limited)

Planet B-boy (limited)

Irina Palm (NY,LA)

I Am Legend

After Dark Horrorfest 2- 8 movies sold separetly or in a box set

Atonement

Enchanted 

Conspiracy

Rockaway

Sonja

Alpha Male

The Sasquatch Gang 

Doomsday

Dr. Suess’ Horton Hears a Who

Funny Games

Never Back Down

Sleepwalking

The Hammer (NY)

Sputnik Mania (NY)

On Broadway (Boston)

Bee Movie

Dan in Real Life

Hitman

August Rush

Nancy Drew 

No country for Old Men

Tin Man

Outlaw

Lake of Fire

It’s odd to find a big budget sci-fi in the world of Indie films.  Well, last year there was “Sunshine”

This movie was GREAT!  the special effects were awesome, the acting was well done, the editing was enticing…. There wasn’t much wrong with this movie.

In fact, my ONLY problem with this movie was… well, something I can’t tell you about without ruining it for you.  So, let’s just say that at one point near the end there’s a villian other than the typical technical problems…. and this new villian that appears for only the last maybe 20 mintues is not something I’m a fan of.

Other than that, it’s a great movie, and a must-watch!

10,000 B.C.

College Road Trip

The Bank Job

CJ7  (limited)

Snow Angels (NY, LA)

Paranoid Park (limited)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (limited)

Married Life (NY, LA)

Everybody Wants to be Italian

Bar Starz (limited)

Fighting for Life (limited)

Don’t you wish you could teleport?  Well, that’s just what Jumper is about.

I actually liked this movie a little more than I thought I would.  See… I’ve always thought teleportation was the lamest of all Super Powers (give me strength, speed, and flight any day), so I wasn’t expecting to find this to be all that much.

But, it was pretty cool.

The acting was good for the most part… the lead female wasn’t that great, but the men in this movie are all really good and (for the most part) believable.

The special effects are cool… at first.  As I expected, they got really old really fast, and after a while you just get tired of seeing the air ripple and the low pitched WHOOP sound that accompanies a jump.

If you read my blog about watch-movies.net, you know I saw Jumper on my computer.  I wish I would have seen it on the big screen.  Some of the effects (like the bus teleporting scene you probably saw in the trailer) would look much better on a huge theater screen than on my 12 inch monitor.  In other words, I suggest you hurry up and see this one before you have to rent it.  Jump to the theater now!  Or… if you can’t teleport, drive.  Drive really fast.

This is a link my sister gave me.  CLICK HERE to watch movies online!  You can watch just about any movie, including stuff that’s still in movie theaters.  Yes, the ones still in theaters are bootlegged, but some have very good quality.  And there’s nothing to download- it’s all streaming!

Why, last night I watched Semi-Pro, and earlier today I watched Jumper!  I’m going to do reviews of each in a moment.