Alright, so I thought before the insanity of 3rd year took over I would conclude my 3 part blog series on "crap I have done" and such. I have enjoyed looking through some of the stuff I have done to get me where I am now. Though maybe 3 people have read this stuff, it's more for me then for you, so there.
I think I have touched on most of the films/events that have gotten me here, Bloodshed, Asher, Behind Closed Doors, etc. I did however touch briefly on the film 48 Hours In Purgatory so I will go into more detail here since it has been on my mind as of late. Jason Armstrong was like that one long lost girlfriend you are like "man she was awesome, whatever happened to her?". I guess that analogy works right Jay? Anyways, we met in the local metal scene, had brief but awesome encounters and then didn't talk to each other for like 4 years. Then he pops up on my MSN one day when I am in post on Behind Closed Doors and says "you make movies too? So do I...." and thus began the start of the long and painful journey of the film "48 Hours In Purgatory". See Jay was just finishing shooting on his first feature film of that name in July 2008. He did some effects work on BCD and I helped him out on what was thought to be the "last shooting days on 48 HIP". Boy, we were wrong since a year and 2 months later (last weekend) we ACTUALLY wrapped shooting on 48.
When I go into 2nd year film school, fall 2008, Jay locks himself away for the fall and comes back early 2009 and says to me "it's not good enough, I have to re-shoot, can you help?". I of course say yes. 4 months later, May 15th 2009, was the first day of shooting on 48, the second time around. This time I had gathered some of my best people to be on the small crew to help shoot this thing in the impossible 10 days. Well, we made it possible, some days we shot up to 14 pages. It was insane but the "feature film" bug bit me, hard. And I think the rest of the crew was bitten as well. The indie feature gig was pretty awesome. It was like summer camp for 10 days - not great food, no sleep, great people although in 48's case, we all achieved something didn't seem possible - shooting a feature in 10 days. We wrapped end of May and started editing right away. This Wednesday we will have a locked edit and have about 8 weeks for Post Audio and Colors. I am viewing the final cut tonight so I am pretty stoked about that.
To conclude this chapter on 48 - Jay has been on this project for the better part of 2 years and it has been a great pleasure (torture at times tho) to help him through this process. The experience I have gained producing my first feature has been invaluable and something I will never forget. Things also look promising for next summer - another feature? That is the goal.
Um, OK. I'd like to give a little preview of some things coming up in the next little while. 48 Hours moves to the final stages of Post Production this week - that is exciting. I am also involved in three 3rd Year portfolio projects - co-producing Chris Lawson's "Expired Poetry" with the lovely, Chantelle Kadyschuk as well directing my own "Until Death" produced by Nick Matthews and penned by the experienced hand of Caitlin Green. Lastly Texas - I am going there for 9 days to shoot Sarah Malden's documentary on this guy on death row. We leave on Wednesday! Pretty stoked about all 3 projects. A 48 premiere will be happening in December BTW which should be awesome. Anyways - that is a little taste of what's going on this fall - there is also a bunch of things that are super TOP SECRET - or something, which I hope to be able to reveal later this fall!
Alright, I think that concludes this series on "crap I have done" and such. Hope this was beneficial to maybe one other person then me but if not that's cool, I enjoyed it. OH also - when I come back from Texas I will be doing a 3 part lecture at Mafia entitled " I Made a Movie..Now WHAT?" which will be filmed and posted up on the youtube. Look out for that!
MK
